Frank Yao

Dr. Frank Yao is a Managing Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager at Green Court Capital Management Ltd. and a Managing Director at Green Court Capital Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co, Ltd. He has over 32 years of industry experience.
Prior to founding the firm, he was a Vice Chairman of Asia and Managing Director at Neuberger Berman (“NB”) and Senior Portfolio Manager for the NB Greater China Investment Team, originally joining NB in 2008.
Previously, he was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Avenue Capital where he was responsible for directing the investment activities of the funds.
From 2004 to 2007, he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Hua An Fund Management.
Dr. Yao also played a leading role, along with Lehman Brothers, in designing, launching and managing fund.
From 2002 to 2004, he worked for Berens Capital, a New York based hedge fund investment firm, where he was responsible for portfolio construction, quantitative analysis and risk management.
From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Yao developed and managed a quantitative equity portfolio at Alpha Asset Management.
From 1996 to 1999, he conducted global asset allocation and risk management at Goldman Sachs and from 1993 to 1996 helped build the mortgage backed securities analytics for Dow Jones (formerly Telerate), all in the US.
Dr. Yao received an MBA in Finance in 1998 from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he was honored as a Stern Scholar.
He conducted Ph.D studies in Engineering at Columbia University, earned an MS from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS from Fudan University.