Yue Cathy Chang
Co-Founder & CEO
- TutumGene

Yue Cathy Chang is a business executive recognized for sales, business development, and product marketing in high technology.
Cathy co-founded and is currently the CEO of TutumGene, a technology company that aims to accelerate disease curing by providing solutions for gene therapy and regulation of gene expression. She was most recently with Silicon Valley Data Science, a startup (acquired by Apple) that provided business transformation consulting to enterprises and other organizations using data science- and engineering-based solutions. Prior to that, Cathy was employee #1 hired by the CEO at venture-funded software startup Rocana (acquired by Splunk), where she served as Senior Director of Business Development focusing on building and growing long-term relationships, and notably increased sales leads 2x through building and managing indirect revenue channels.
Prior to Rocana, Cathy held multiple strategic roles at blue chip software enterprise companies as well as startups, including Corporate and Business Development at FeedZai and Datameer; Senior product management, product marketing and sales at Symantec and IBM; and Strategic Sourcing Improvement Consulting at Honeywell.
Cathy holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, MBA and MS degrees as a Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) duel-degree fellow from MIT, and two patents for her early work in microprocessor logic design.