James Chow, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Chow has served as the Chairman of our board of directors 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. Mr. Chow has an MBA from Columbia University.
Wallace C. Kou, President, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director
Mr. Kou founded Silicon Motion in 1995 and has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since our 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 has 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.
Steve Chen, Director
Mr. Chen joined our board of directors in 2012. Mr. Chen is the chairman of Mercuries Co., Ltd. Mr. Chen has dual M. Eng. from Cornell University.
Tsung-Ming Chung, Director
Mr. Chung joined our board of directors in June 2005. Mr. Chung is the Chairman of Dynapack International Technology Corp., a leading provider of battery packs for notebook PCs and tablets. From 1985 to 2000, Mr. Chung was an audit partner at Arthur Andersen. He is also a director at Far East International Bank and Fubon Hyundai Life Insurance Corporation. Mr. Chung has a BA in Business Administration from the National Taiwan University and an MBA from the National Cheng-chi University in Taiwan.
Lien-Chun Liu, Director
Ms. Liu joined our board of directors in June 2005. She is Vice President of the International Council of Women and currently also serves on the board of supervisors of Concord VIII Venture Capital Co., Ltd. and the board of directors of New Tamsui Golf Course. She was formerly a research fellow at the Taiwan Research Institute and served on the board of supervisors of China Television Corp. from 2000 to 2004. Ms. Liu has a BA from Wellesley College and a JD from Boston College Law School.
Yung-Chien Wang, Director
Mr. Wang joined our board of directors in 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.
Han-Ping D. Shieh, Director
Mr. Shieh joined our board of directors in 2014. He is Life Chair Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of American (OSA) and the Society for Information Display (SID) and a board member of Tailiang Technology Inc., Dynapack International Tech. Corp., and Focal Tech. Inc. Mr. Shieh received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) as a professor in 1992 and was previously a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He was the Dean of the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Senior Vice President of NCTU and a Vice Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan.
Kenneth Kuan-Ming Lin, Director
Mr. Lin joined our board of directors in September 2018. Mr. Lin was previously a director on our board from 2009 to 2014. Mr. Lin is the Chairman of Premier Capital Management Corp., Ruby Tech Corp. and Taiwan Health Care Association, Chief Executive Officer of SINOCON Industrial Standards Foundation and Deputy Secretary-General of Cross-Strait CEO Summit. He was previously the Chairman of the Taiwan Venture Capital Association and the Taiwan Private Equity Association. Mr. Lin has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University.
Riyadh Lai, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Lai joined us in 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 two decades of finance and financial management experience. He has a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University.
Nelson Duann, Senior VP of Marketing and R&D and Director
Mr. Duann became our Senior Vice President of marketing and R&D for mobile storage in November 2018. He joined Silicon Motion in August 2007 as a product marketing director and R&D team leader. Mr. Duann has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in product design, development and marketing. Prior to Silicon Motion, he worked for Sun Microsystems focusing on UltraSPARC microprocessor projects. He has an MS in Communications Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Arthur Yeh, VP of Sales, Asia and Greater China
Mr. Yeh has served as our Vice President of our mobile storage sales since November 2004. Mr. Yeh has over 20 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 us in 2004. Mr. Yeh holds an MS degree in Management Business Administration from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan.
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation currently has 2012 employees.
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