Jay Yu – President & CEO
Mr. Yu is a serial and leading U.S. advanced nuclear technology entrepreneur with 20 years of capital markets experience. He is a private investor in a multitude of companies and has advised a magnitude of company executives with corporate advisory services such as capital funding, mergers & acquisitions, structured financing, corporate restructuring, and other business development services geared at taking these companies to the next level. He is a self taught and private self investor, his relentless passion for international business has helped him develop key, strategic and valuable relationships throughout the world.
Mr. Yu’s unconventional and unlikely journey from humble beginnings as a “sweatshop baby”, brings strong work ethics as well as different perspectives to corporate and business growth strategies. Mr. Yu leads the corporate structuring, capital financings, executive level recruitment, governmental relationships and international brand growth of companies he is a founder of. Previously, Mr. Yu worked as an Analyst part of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in New York City.
Mr. Yu is the founder and chairman of NANO Nuclear Energy Inc., a vertically integrated advanced portable microreactor technology company publicly listed on the NASDAQ Exchange. Behind Mr. Yu’s leadership, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. reached over $1B Market Capitalization in value. Mr. Yu is also the Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & President of LIS Technologies, the only U.S.-Origin Laser Uranium Enrichment company in the world.
In 2021, Mr. Yu was honored as one of The Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in business. He is an active Philanthropist and the founder of a Non-Profit Organization that helps nurture New York City kids through sports and education. Mr. Yu worked and continued his studies at Columbia University after earning a BA in Psychology from City College of New York.