Jay Yu – Founder and Chairman
Mr. Yu is a serial and leading U.S. advanced nuclear and deep 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, capital markets, 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., the first vertically integrated advanced portable microreactor technology company publicly listed on the NASDAQ Exchange (NASDAQ: NNE). Under his leadership, NANO Nuclear Energy reached over $1.5+ BILLION Market Capitalization in value, has raised approximately $150 MILLION to date & became Wall Street’s Cinderella story of 2024 as the #1 IPO Performer. Mr. Yu is also the Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & President of LIS Technologies (LIST), the only U.S.-Origin and patented technology for Laser Uranium Enrichment. Under his leadership, L.I.S.T has raised over $35 MILLION and is 1/6 companies awarded by the DOE for the LEU Acquisition Program with a budget of $3.4B over 10 years. L.I.S.T has also been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase I contract focused on enhancing our patented technology to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
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.