Full Name
Yuanqing Yang
Job Title
Lenovo CEO
Speaker Bio
Yuanqing Yang joined the Lenovo Group in 1989 and has played a key role in Lenovo’s transformation into a US$70 billion global technology powerhouse employing 75,000 people and serving customers in 180 markets around the world.
Under his leadership, Lenovo completed the acquisition of the IBM PC business in May 2005 and the acquisitions of the IBM x86 server business and Motorola Mobility in October 2014. After leading the company to become the largest PC company in the world, Yang has built new growth engines, including infrastructure, mobile, solutions and services, driving Lenovo to transform from a device provider to a solution provider, charging full speed ahead toward its vision of smarter technology for all.
Lenovo has been recognized extensively for its leadership and innovation, including ranked on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies and being cited by Boston Consulting Group as one of the top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world for the past two years. Lenovo is ranked 9th on Gartner’s 2022 list of the world’s Top 25 Global Supply Chains and #171 on the 2022 Fortune Global 500 list, meaning it ranks in the top 15 of all technology companies in the world. In addition, Lenovo continued its high overall rating in the 2022 Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index and leads the best overall industry score for the IT industry for the second year in a row.
Mr. Yang has been the recipient of multiple awards and industry accolades. He was on Barron's Best CEOs list from 2013 to 2015 and in 2014 won the Edison Achievement Award. And Mr. Yang has been named one of China's Most Influential Business Leaders by Fortune (China) magazine every year for the past decade.
Mr. Yang was born in Anhui Province of China in November 1964. He received a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Mr. Yang serves as a member of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institute and is a board member of Baidu, Inc., and TaiKang Insurance Group.
Under his leadership, Lenovo completed the acquisition of the IBM PC business in May 2005 and the acquisitions of the IBM x86 server business and Motorola Mobility in October 2014. After leading the company to become the largest PC company in the world, Yang has built new growth engines, including infrastructure, mobile, solutions and services, driving Lenovo to transform from a device provider to a solution provider, charging full speed ahead toward its vision of smarter technology for all.
Lenovo has been recognized extensively for its leadership and innovation, including ranked on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies and being cited by Boston Consulting Group as one of the top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world for the past two years. Lenovo is ranked 9th on Gartner’s 2022 list of the world’s Top 25 Global Supply Chains and #171 on the 2022 Fortune Global 500 list, meaning it ranks in the top 15 of all technology companies in the world. In addition, Lenovo continued its high overall rating in the 2022 Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index and leads the best overall industry score for the IT industry for the second year in a row.
Mr. Yang has been the recipient of multiple awards and industry accolades. He was on Barron's Best CEOs list from 2013 to 2015 and in 2014 won the Edison Achievement Award. And Mr. Yang has been named one of China's Most Influential Business Leaders by Fortune (China) magazine every year for the past decade.
Mr. Yang was born in Anhui Province of China in November 1964. He received a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Mr. Yang serves as a member of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institute and is a board member of Baidu, Inc., and TaiKang Insurance Group.