A new chapter for Helmsman: Lin Yan Yan named Chief Executive Officer
Helmsman LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Lin Yan Yan as Chief Executive Officer. Yan Yan brings over 15 years of senior leadership experience spanning strategy, commercial operations, and organisational transformation across Asia.
Yan Yan joins from ONE Championship, Asia's largest global sports media property, where she served as Vice President with cross-functional responsibility across corporate development, commercial, and corporate affairs. At ONE Championship, she led global teams, drove market expansion, and spearheaded strategic initiatives including the global distribution of ONE's media rights worldwide, the structuring and closing of commercial partnerships with leading media, brand and government organisations, the launch and scaling of new business lines, and fundraising across multiple financing rounds. She also led ONE's Analytics & Insights function and oversaw the organisation’s China business.
Earlier in her career, Yan Yan was a strategy consultant at L.E.K. Consulting before moving into principal investing with Mission Holdings, VisVires Capital Asia, and Volta Circle. She began her professional career as a litigation lawyer at Drew & Napier LLC. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, an LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore, and has completed MIT's Applied Data Science Program. She is admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Yan Yan's breadth of experience across legal, financial, strategic, and operational disciplines reflects the ethos at the heart of Helmsman: plain, practical advice that serves clients at every level of complexity.
"We are delighted to welcome Yan Yan to Helmsman as our Chief Executive Officer. Yan Yan joins Helmsman at an exciting stage of the firm's growth. Her record of building and running complex organisations across Asia, combined with her deep commercial and strategic instincts, makes her exceptionally well-placed to lead the firm through its next chapter. We look forward to the energy and vision she brings to this role."
— Ian Teo, Managing Director
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