Yue Cathy Chang
Partner, TutumGene

Website | @yuec

Yue “Cathy” Chang is a partner at TutumGene, a technology company that aims to accelerate disease curing by providing solutions for gene therapy and regulation of gene expression. She’s a business executive recognized for sales, business development, and product marketing in high technology. Previously, she was with Silicon Valley Data Science, a startup (acquired by Apple) that provided business transformation consulting to enterprises and other organizations using data science- and engineering-based solutions; employee #1 hired by the CEO at venture-funded software startup Rocana (acquired by Splunk), where she served as senior director of business development focusing on building and growing long-term relationships, and notably increased sales leads 2x through building and managing indirect revenue channels; held multiple strategic roles at blue chip software enterprise companies as well as startups, including corporate and business development at Feedzai and Datameer; senior product management, product marketing and sales at Symantec and IBM; and strategic sourcing improvement consulting at Honeywell. Cathy holds MS and BS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, MBA and MS degrees as a leaders for global operations (LGO) duel-degree fellow from MIT, and two patents for her early work in microprocessor logic design.