Feng Deng, Founding Managing Director of NLVC comments: “With his deep investment experience and industry expertise in the China consumer and health care markets, Ray is a strong addition to the Northern Light team and we are excited at the opportunity to be able to work alongside him.”

"I am very happy to join the Northern Light team.  Northern Light has built a good culture and a strong platform which is vital to build up a long-term oriented, successful venture capital firm,” quotes Ray Yang.

Ray Yang joined Northern Light with more than 15 years of direct investment, government and multinational corporation experience. Prior to Northern Light, Mr. Yang was an Investment Director at Orchid Asia Group and helped establish its China operations. He focused on investment opportunities in consumer product and service sectors including education, health care, and retail. Before that, Mr. Yang was a Commodity Trader at Louis Dreyfus Corporation, focusing on agriculture commodities. Prior to this, he was a Vice Commercial Consul for the Consulate General of China in Houston, Texas, promoting trade and investment between China and the southern region of the United States. Previously, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce) for four years in Beijing as an Operations Manager, where he supervised operations of the Economic & Commercial offices of the Chinese Embassies and Consulates.

Mr. Yang graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, and has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.