Yung Wu

Yung Wu was appointed to the OMERS AC Board effective January 1, 2018 on the nomination of the Police Association of Ontario. He is a member of the Investment Committee and the Member Services Committee.

Yung is the recently-retired CEO of MaRS Discovery District, one of the world's largest innovation hubs with over 1,200 companies in the health, cleantech, fintech, and platform technologies sectors, at all stages of growth and scale. Under Yung’s leadership, the MaRS innovation community grew by over 450% in six years, raising over $17B in capital and contributing over $23B to Canada’s GDP. Prior to MaRS, Yung had a lengthy career as a serial entrepreneur and private equity investor, building, backing and scaling breakthrough companies in enterprise software, mobile analytics, big data, media and entertainment, technology services, and biotech.

Yung is passionate above creating positive social and economic change through innovation and entrepreneurship. He is co-founder of the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR), a network of senior leaders committed to creating pathways and opportunities in the innovation economy for the Blake community, Indigenous peoples, and people of color.

Mr. Wu has been recognized as one of Canada's 'Top 40 under 40' and for leading one of Canada’s "50 Best Managed Private Companies" in the nation. He has a B.Sc. Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of MENSA, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).