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Susan Yee (born in 1960) is an entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist, and businesswoman.

Early Life and Education
She is a first generation Asian American and is the oldest child of Bark Lee Yee and Stella Yee, founders of Twin County Trans Video, an independently owned cable television firm founded in the early 1960's in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania. She was born at Betts Hospital in Easton, Pennsylvania and raised in Lehigh Valley going to school in the Bethlehem Area School District. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Business at Lehigh University, with a double major in Marketing and Finance and a minor in International Relations.

Career and Community
Yee was the Chief Operating Officer of Twin County Cable, one of the first and largest independently owned cable television companies in the 60's-90's and was known as one of the first in an overbuilt cable television market with infrastructure in competition with another existing cable television firm, Service Electric Cable Television.

She served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of C-SPAN, and as Treasurer of the then Pennsylvania Cable Television Board of Directors. During her career in the cable television industry, she negotiated content licensing agreements for the launch of some of the earliest cable television channels, MTV, CNN, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, and others.

In the late 1990's, she founded Regional Network Communications, an Internet publishing firm, that developed web content management publishing software and online communities with the MediaNews Group. Its technologies included online games, company and personal website directories, online news and community web publishing tools.

In 2017, she sold the enterprise calendar assets of her company, Active Data, to Dude Solutions. Clients included Mayo Clinic, the New England Patriots, the State of Indiana, North Carolina State University, San Jose State University, Villanova University and others.

She has served on numerous boards throughout her career including C-SPAN, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Lehigh University, Team Pennsylvania, PBS39, Truist Bank Community Advisory Board, and others.

As an Executive Committee member of the Broad Street Angels, an affinity angel investment club of the Union League of Philadelphia, she has invested in over a dozen startup firms including Neuroflow, Strados Labs, Epistemix, Seneca Therapeutics, Nexteon Technologies, Zenapse and others. She has served on various startup funding panels and has judged startup competitions.

Awards
She has been recognized as a leader in her community https://www.mcall.com/2017/01/25/pictures-legendary-business-leaders-of-the-lehigh-valley/, and has been awarded Pennsylvania's 50 Best Women in Business (1997), Lehigh University Class of 1982 Alumni Award, YWCA Golden Laurel Award (2015), Lehigh Valley 25 Women of Influence (2015), Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Take the Lead Award (2011), Smart CEO Voltage Award (2014), National Association of Minorities in Cable Hall of Fame (1993).

Personal Life
She has two daughters and is a widow. Her late husband, Dr. Richard Martin, was killed by a drunk driver in the Cayman Islands on November 30, 2011.