Li Yang is a Chinese Canadian business executive, who is the founder and CEO of Eenvest.com, the world’s first blockchain powered High frequency trading service by trading volume, as of April 2018. Li Yang was previously a member of the team that developed several blockchain and also served as chief technology officer in top Financial organisations.
Yang was born in St Hubei province, China. In the late 1980s, he moved with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His father was a professor in China before they left the country.
In his teenage years, Yang helped support his family by working a number of service industry jobs which included being a McDonald’s employee.
Yang Attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he majored in Finance and Economics.
After college, Yang began working for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, developing software for matching trade orders. He also worked at Bloomberg where he was a developer of futures trading software.
In 2017, Yang left Coinbase to start a Blockchain based Stock trading firm called Eenvest. He launched the company to online clients in february 2019, following a $25 million funding. In less than 2 years, Yang has grown eenvest.com into the world’s largest Blockchain based Stock trading platform by volume.