Nicholas Yang

Nicholas Yang Wei-hsiung (Chinese: 楊偉雄, born 1955) is a Taiwan-born Hong Kong businessman, and prospective government official, who has also served as the Executive Vice President of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Education and business career
Yang lived in Jersey City, New Jersey before moving to Pasadena to attend the California Institute of Technology. He graduated in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He went on to obtain a master's degree at Stanford University in the same field, and worked as a senior design engineer at Intel. He returned to Stanford to earn an MBA, and worked briefly at Bain & Company before moving to Asia in 1983.
Yang spent sixteen years at Shell Electric (蜆殼電器) in Hong Kong and mainland China, where he served as executive director and deputy group managing director, and guided the company through its initial public offering and the sale of its fibre-optic business to JDSU. He moved to JDSU in 1999....