Patrick Y. Yang is executive vice president, Product Operations. In this role, he is responsible for Genentech's Engineering, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality & Compliance, Facilities, Supply Chain Management, and Manufacturing Collaboration functions. Yang is a member of Genentech's executive committee.

Yang joined Genentech in 2003 as vice president, South San Francisco Manufacturing and Engineering and most recently served as senior vice president, Product Operations. Prior to joining Genentech, Yang spent 11 years at Merck & Company in various leadership positions. Most recently, he held the position of vice president, Supply Chain Management in Merck's Manufacturing Division. In this role, he led the worldwide materials management, planning, global procurement, distribution/logistics, management engineering, third party manufacturing, automation and manufacturing support functions for Merck's manufacturing plants around the globe. Previous to that position, he was Merck's vice president, Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Operations. Yang was promoted to senior vice president, Product Operations in December 2004. In January 2006, Yang was promoted to executive vice president.

Prior to joining Merck in 1992, Yang spent 12 years at General Electric, serving in several research, engineering, technology, and manufacturing leadership roles with an increasing scope of responsibilities. Before working for General Electric, Yang spent five years in aerospace control systems research and development with Life Systems, Inc.

Yang holds a Bachelor of Science from the National Chiaotung University in Taiwan, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from Ohio State University.