Executive Team

Yang Chen

Head of Corporate Development and Strategy

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Yang Chen is Verisk’s head of corporate
development and strategy, responsible for
developing and implementing corporate
strategies across all Verisk businesses to drive
growth and returns. She works closely with the
senior management team to develop capital
allocation plans and long-term strategic themes
for the company and identify new business
opportunities in support of those themes.

Yang leads Verisk’s mergers and acquisitions,
investment, and strategic partnership activities
globally. She ensures that Verisk generates good
returns on invested capital with acquisitions and
investments that are consistent with Verisk’s
growth strategy and create long term value for
our clients. Yang is also focused on expanding
Verisk’s data, analytics, and technology
capabilities through innovations and
partnerships.

Yang joined Verisk in 2013 as vice president,
Corporate Development and Strategy, and began
implementing partnership-and acquisition-based
growth strategies that would guide years of
significant expansion. During her tenure, she has
identified and led the acquisitions of and
investments in companies across the globe that
integrate well with Verisk solutions, expand our
international presence in key markets, and
advance our technology capabilities.

Before joining Verisk, Yang was an executive
director in J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking
group, focusing on technology, media, and
telecom clients. She advised major corporations
in the United States and overseas on mergers
and acquisitions transactions and capital raising.

Yang holds a BA in economics from Columbia
University

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