Diana Yang is a Managing Director and leads the Investor Relations team to manage the firm’s strategic growth and capital formation across Kairos’ various private equity, credit and impact strategies. Prior to joining Kairos in 2024, Ms. Yang served as an investor and a senior product and business development strategist at BlackRock. She joined BlackRock’s private markets real estate business to invest on behalf of commingled and discretionary funds and accounts. Ms. Yang was most recently responsible for product development, business development and capital formation for the firm’s flagship private markets social impact strategy. In addition, Ms. Yang launched and led the strategy’s dedicated co-invest program, offering opportunities to clients and prospects alike. Ms. Yang served as BlackRock Women’s Initiative Network’s Los Angeles head. Prior to joining BlackRock, Ms. Yang was a director, real estate investor, and senior originator at CIT Bank. Prior to CIT, she served as vice president, underwriter and portfolio manager at MUFG Union Bank (formerly PB Capital).

Ms. Yang also has experience in social policy and foreign direct investment consulting. In 2017, she was named one of the Commercial Observer’s Top 25 Under 35: The Lenders and Debt Brokers to Watch. Ms. Yang serves on the Board of Advisors of UC Irvine’s Center for Investment and Wealth Management.

Ms. Yang holds a M.S. degree in Finance from New York University and a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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