Geoff Yang

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation announced the election of Geoff Yang as chair of the USOPF Board of Directors in June 2023. Yang was formally endorsed by the USOPF Board after the recommendation of his nomination by the USOPF Nominating and Governance Committee and Executive Committees.

Yang has been a supporter of Team USA since before the foundation’s inception, serving as a director until 2022 and as vice chair from 2017 to 2022. In 2015, he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Technology & Innovation Fund, a program that supports performance-impacting projects that help U.S. Olympians and Paralympians gain a competitive edge.

He currently serves as co-chair of the Technology & Innovation Fund Advisory Committee, which utilizes the brightest ideas in technology and engineering to the benefit of Team USA’s sports and athletes.

Yang is just the second permanent chair in foundation history. Gordy Crawford, the USOPF’s inaugural chair, served for nearly a decade from 2013 to 2022.

He has served as a founding partner and managing director of Redpoint Ventures, a California-based global private equity and venture capital firm, since 1999, while also serving as CEO and founder of Apeiron Life. He has over 35 years of experience in the venture capital industry and has helped found or served on the boards of a variety of consumer media, internet and infrastructure companies. Yang currently serves on the boards of directors of Franklin Templeton, Liberty Media Acquisition Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery as well as private companies Esquel Group, Performance Health Sciences, Rock the Bells, Scribd and Tastemade and previously served as a director of AT&T.