Patrick Y. Yang

Who is Patrick Y. Yang?

Patrick Y. Yang is Executive Vice President, Product

Operations. In this role, he is responsible for Genentech's Process

Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities, Supply Chain

Management, and Manufacturing Collaboration functions. Yang is a member

of Genentech's executive committee.

Yang

joined Genentech in 2003 as vice president, South San Francisco

Manufacturing and Engineering, and most recently served as senior vice

president, Product Operations. Prior to joining Genentech, Yang spent

11 years at Merck Company in various leadership positions. Most

recently, he held the position of vice president, Supply Chain

Management in Merck's Manufacturing Division. In this role, he led the

worldwide materials management, planning, global procurement,

distribution/logistics, management engineering, third party

manufacturing, automation and manufacturing support functions for

Merck's manufacturing plants around the globe. Previous to that

position, he was Merck's vice president, Asia/Pacific Manufacturing

Operations. Yang was promoted to senior vice president, Product

Operations in December 2004. In January 2006, Yang was promoted to

executive vice president.

Prior to joining

Merck in 1992, Yang spent 12 years at General Electric, serving in

several research, engineering, technology, and manufacturing leadership

roles with increasing scope of responsibilities. Before working for

General Electric, Yang spent five years in aerospace control systems

research and development with Life Systems, Inc.

Yang

holds a Bachelor of Science from the National Chiaotung University in

Taiwan, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the

University of Cincinnati, and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science from Ohio State University.