People: Silicon Motion Technology Corp (SIMO.O)

SIMO.O on Nasdaq

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17 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

James Chow

62 2005 Chairman of the Board

Wallace Kou

53 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Riyadh Lai

43 2007 Chief Financial Officer

Sangwoo Han

43 2008 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Mobile Communications

Ken Chen

51 2003 Vice President - Operations

Chun-O Kim

51 2011 Vice President - Sales, Mobile Communications

Arthur Yeh

51 2004 Vice President - Sales, Mobile Storage and Multimedia SoCs

Nelson Duann

43 2010 Vice President - Product Marketing, Mobile Storage and Multimedia SoCs

Frank Chang

46 2008 Vice President - Research & Development, Mobile Storage

Kuan-Ming Lin

59 2009 Director

Lien-Chun Liu

55 2005 Director

Yung-Chien Wang

49 2005 Director

Tsung-Ming Chung

63 2005 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

James Chow

Mr. James Chow is Chairman of the Board of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since April 2005. Mr. Chow has been the Chairman of Concord Financial Co., Ltd. since 1993. Concord Financial Co., Ltd. is an investment holding company and was one of the company's shareholders. Mr. Chow received an MBA from Columbia University.

Wallace Kou

Mr. Wallace C. Kou is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation. Mr. Kou founded Silicon Motion in 1995 and has been President and Chief Executive Officer since the company's founding. Prior to founding Silicon Motion, Mr. Kou was the Vice President and Chief Architect at the Multimedia Products Division of Western Digital Corporation, which developed graphics processors for notebook PCs and was sold to Philips Semiconductor in 1995. Before Western Digital, Mr. Kou worked for Wyse Technology. Mr. Kou received a BS in Electrical & Control Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Riyadh Lai

Mr. Riyadh Lai is Chief Financial Officer of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation. since April 2007 from ING Corporate Finance, Asia, where he was the Head of the Technology Group. Previously, he was also an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and ABN AMRO and finance manager at PepsiCo in Hong Kong and New York. Mr. Lai has over a decade of financial management and M&A transaction experience. He holds a BA degree in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University.

Sangwoo Han

Mr. Sangwoo Han is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Mobile Communications of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since July 2008. He was formerly the Chief Technology Officer at FCI, a company that the company acquired in April 2007. Mr. Han joined FCI in 2003 and had been in charge of product design, development, production and marketing. In 1997, he co-founded RF Solutions Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, which is now the Anadigics Wireless LAN Center of Excellence. Mr. Han received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ken Chen

Mr. Ken Chen is Vice President - Operations of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since November 2003. Mr. Chen has over 20 years of manufacturing and operations experience in the semiconductor industry, managing supply chain and virtual manufacturing systems including wafer fabrication, mask tooling, as well as assembly and testing. Mr. Chen previously served in management positions at Faraday Technology and UMC, and joined in 2003. Mr. Chen holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University and an MS degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Chun-O Kim

Mr. Chun-O Kim is Vice President - Sales, Mobile Communications of Silicon Motion Technology Corp. He was formerly the Vice President of Sales at FCI, a company that the company acquired in April 2007. Mr. Kim joined FCI in 2006 and had previously served in management positions at Hewlett-Packard’s semiconductor division (now Avago Technologies) and as a CEO of a private company. Mr. Kim has over 16 years of semiconductor sales leadership experience, including managing marketing strategies, product promotions and sales activities. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering from Ajou University, Korea.

Arthur Yeh

Mr. Arthur Yeh is Vice President - Sales, Mobile Storage and Multimedia SoCs of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since November 2004. Mr. Yeh has over 15 years of sales experience managing marketing strategies, including product promotions and sales activities for semiconductor products. Mr. Yeh previously served in management positions at VIA Technologies for 10 years and joined in 2004. Mr. Yeh holds an MS degree in Management Business Administration from the National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

Nelson Duann

Mr. Nelson Duann is Vice President - Product Marketing, Mobile Storage and Multimedia SoCs of Silicon Motion Technology Corp. since September 2010. He joined Silicon Motion in August 2007 as a product marketing director and R&D team leader. Mr. Duann has almost 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in product design, development and marketing. Prior to Silicon Motion, he worked for Sun Microsystems Inc., focusing on UltraSPARC micro Processor projects. He holds an MS in Communications Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Frank Chang

Mr. Frank Chang is Vice President - Research & Development, Mobile Storage of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since 2008. Mr. Chang is head of research and development for mobile storage products and has around 20 years of experience in the integrated circuit design industry. He was previously a project manager of firmware development at Holtek Semiconductors. Mr. Chang has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.

Kuan-Ming Lin

Mr. Kuan-Ming Lin is Director of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since September 2009. Mr. Lin is the Chairman of Premier Capital Management Corp., the Taiwan Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and Ruby Tech Corp., and is a member of the board of directors of the Straits Economics & Cultural Interchange Association. He was previously Assistant Vice President of MiTAC Corporation from 1977 to 1978, Vice President of Synnex Corporation from 1978 to 1987, President of TaiDevelop Information Corp. from 1987 to 1990 and Chairman of the board of System General Corp. from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Lin has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University.

Lien-Chun Liu

Ms. Lien-Chun Liu is Director of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since June 2005. Ms. Liu is a research fellow at the Taiwan Research Institute. She also currently serves on the board of supervisors of Concord VIII Venture Capital Co., Ltd and on the board of directors of New Tamsui Golf Course. From 2000 to 2004, she also served on the board of supervisors of China Television Corp. Ms. Liu has a BA from Wellesley College and a JD from Boston College Law School.

Yung-Chien Wang

Mr. Yung-Chien Wang is Director of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since June 2005. Mr. Wang has over 20 years of working experience in the human resource and legal services industries. Mr. Wang has been a consultant of Professional Trust Co., Ltd., a human resource consulting firm in Taiwan since August 1998 and is currently its Vice President. Mr. Wang has a law degree from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan.

Tsung-Ming Chung

Mr. Tsung-Ming Chung is Independent Director of Silicon Motion Technology Corporation since June 2005. Mr. Chung is the Chairman of Dynapack International Technology Corp, a provider of battery packs for notebook PCs and tablets. From 1985 to 2000, Mr. Chung was an audit partner at Arthur Andersen. Mr. Chung has been a trustee and audit committee member of the Taiwan Greater China Fund, Inc., an NYSE-listed closed-end investment company, since 2006. He is also a director at Far East International Bank and Taiwan Cellular Corp. Mr. Chung has a BA in Business Administration from the National Taiwan University and an MBA from the National Cheng-chi University.
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