Hannah Yang is the Chief Growth Officer at The New York Times Company, leading its global subscription business. She co-leads a cross-functional organization consisting of product development, engineering, data, design, marketing, research, and sales to drive The Times’s subscription growth across its expanding portfolio of products. She is proud to have been at The Times when it sold its very first digital subscription in 2011, and to see it soar to almost 10 million subscribers from every corner of globe.
Prior to joining The Times, she was a corporate attorney at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC (now a part of Strategy&).
She is on the Board of the Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic’s nonprofit that has been supporting creative teens since 1923. She is also on the Board of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, a nonprofit organization that has helped support people in dire financial circumstances for more than 100 years.
Hannah graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies and has a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she studied classical piano.
Hannah immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of nine. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons, Michael and Luki.