Hannah Y. Yang is currently Chief Growth and Customer Officer of The New York Times Company, and in such role she co-leads the cross-functional organization consisting of product development, engineering, data, design, marketing, research and sales to drive The Times’s subscription growth globally. Prior to her current role, she held a variety of leadership positions with The Times since 2010, and served in sales development and strategic planning roles with the New England Media Group (which included The Boston Globe and Boston.com) from 2003 to 2007. She began her career as a corporate attorney at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC (now a part of Strategy&).
Ms. Yang serves on the board of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit that supports creative teens, and on the board of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports people in dire financial circumstances.
Ms. Yang graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies and has a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s Pre-College Division, where she studied classical piano.
Ms. Yang was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on her executive leadership skills and deep expertise in media and digital transformation.