Saujin Yi (’07), CEO & Founder, Liquid, Inc.

Saujin Yi is the founder and CEO of Liquid, a venture-backed fintech and future of work startup building the operating system for agile businesses and their global contractor-vendor networks. She brings more than two decades of business and product-led growth experience to the role. 

Previously, as senior vice president of strategy and product at video game subscription rental giant GameFly, Saujin launched the company’s digital division and led the unit to 4x margin growth. Prior to that, she was an investment banker at Chanin Capital Partners and Credit Suisse First Boston. 

A supporter of women-led startups, Saujin makes pre-seed investments under 79 Studios where 40 percent of the portfolio have had successful exits and the remainder have gone on to raise additional rounds of capital at high valuations. She currently serves on the board of FlexTeam, a consulting firm of executive-level women that she co-founded in 2016. 

Saujin holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management where she now is a part-time lecturer in the entrepreneurship program.