Yang to Lead APAC Strategy for OpenAI

Former Kantar and Nielsen Director/AD Genny Yang is the new Head of Strategy, APAC at OpenAI.

Yang (pictured) joins after nearly a decade client side, first at Warner Bros. Discovery where she latterly combined the position of Head of Strategy, Analytics & Insights for APAC with her longstanding leadership of the D2C business in Japan; then at Uber where since the start of 2021 she has served as Head of Growth, Japen, Director of Sales Operation for APAC and then EMEA, and latterly Director of Global Commercial Operations.

Earlier in her diverse career she worked as a News Editor and a System Engineer before joining Nielsen in 2010 as an AD, then Kantar as Group Account Director SEA.

In her new role, leading regional strategy for the GenAI pioneer, she is based in Singapore.

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