Yung Wu was appointed to the OMERS AC Board effective January 1, 2018 on the nomination of the Police Association of Ontario. He is a member of the Governance Committee and the Investment Committee.
Yung is a serial entrepreneur, private equity investor and experienced Corporate Director specializing in innovation, digital strategy and technology. He has built, led and invested into breakthrough scale-stage companies in enterprise software, mobile analytics and big data, media and entertainment, technology services and biotech, while supporting the creation of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic output for his stakeholders.
As the former CEO of MaRS Discovery District, he led one of the world's largest innovation hubs, supporting over 1,200 companies employing over 30,000 tech workers in the health, cleantech, fintech, and platform technologies sectors. Under Yung’s leadership, the MaRS innovation community grew by 450% over six years and contributed over $30B to Canada’s GDP. He remains deeply engaged in Canada’s business community as the recent Chair of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, a member of the Mayor’s Economic Action Team, an inaugural member of Canada’s Net Zero Advisory Board and a Director on the Boards of the OMERS Administration Corporation and MDA Space (TSE: MDA).
Yung is passionate about creating positive social and economic change through innovation and entrepreneurship. As a champion for inclusive innovation, Yung co-founded and serves on the Board of the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Advancing Respect (CILAR), a national network of senior leaders and organizations dedicated to building pathways into the innovation economy for under-recognized talent from under-sponsored communities.
Mr. Wu has been recognized as one of Canada's 'Top 40 under 40' and for leading one of Canada’s "50 Best Managed Private Companies" in the nation. He has a B.Sc. Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of MENSA, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).