Linda Yao,
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Strategy of Solutions and Services Group and Vice President of AI Solutions and Services, Lenovo:
Linda is a bilingual problem-solver in Mandarin Chinese and English with over fifteen years of experience in Fortune 500 companies across major industry verticals. She chose a career path that allows her to tackle new challenges every day, learn from the best, and contribute to a common mission.
Linda serves as the chief operating officer and head of strategy for Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group (SSG).
Most recently, she took on the role of vice president of Lenovo’s AI Solutions and Services where she established Lenovo's AI Center of Excellence. In this role, she leads the AI services practice within SSG, offering advisory and professional services that enable businesses to find the right AI strategy, deploy it fast and measure its ROI effectively.
Previously, at Boeing, she incubated a data science practice in the U.S. and India, built an M&A team, and oversaw investments for one of the largest corporate retirement plans in the world.
She earned her finance chops at IBM, in New York and Shanghai, and honed her project management skills by serving education initiatives across the private and public sector early in her career. Linda earned her Bachelor and Master degrees from Harvard University, and engineering certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an active liaison for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation and National YoungArts Foundation.