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Stan Shih, Acer’s co-founder returned as Chairman in November 2013 with the objective of leading the company through a third corporate transformation and back to profitability. Having completed the tasks set for the six-month transition, in June 2014, Shih stepped down from chairmanship but remains as Honorary Chairman of Acer.
Shih dedicated his efforts to promoting public interests after his initial retirement from Acer at the end of 2004. In recent years, he has been publicly speaking on the Wangdao ideology in relation to organizational sustainability in modern times, and hopes to engrain its principles into Acer to reshape the corporate culture. Through this, Shih expects to help Acer set a new business direction, develop more competitive products, and invest in new potential businesses of the future.
A social entrepreneur all his life, Shih serves as the chairman of Stans Foundation and iD SoftCapital Group. In social and public services, he is the chairman of APEC Digital Opportunity Center 2.0 project’s non-government steering committee, and the chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation. He is on the board of director of Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation.
Shih has received numerous accolades including One of the 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons in Taiwan (1976), The Most Outstanding Young Engineer in Taiwan (1981), and ranked first place in One of the 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons in the World (1983). BusinessWeek named Shih as one of the 25 Top Managers of the Year in 1996. Time featured him in the article “60 years of Asian Heroes” for turning Taiwan into a PC-manufacturing powerhouse. In recognition of his long-term outstanding contributions, Shih received the Order of the Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon from the president of Taiwan in October 2011, and honored as one of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Laureates in 2012.
Johan Lodenius leads MediaTek’s corporate marketing operations, and is responsible for its global marketing strategies and business development.
Johan is a wireless industry veteran, and has been a key contributor to the development of new market strategies, business models, products and intellectual property over the last 27 years.
Johan started his career in 1988 as a chip design engineer at Ericsson, and then lead the wireless business development for LSI Logic. In 1996 he became the initial marketing director, promoted to the first senior vice president of marketing and product management of the Qualcomm’s CDMA Technologies division. During his tenure, Qualcomm grew its chipset business from a small internal ASIC team to become the world’s leading wireless semiconductor supplier. Johan later went on to found and manage several technology companies, including Coresonic — a DSP core company acquired by MediaTek in 2012.
Ian Drew is Chief Marketing Officer and EVP of Business Development. He joined ARM in July 2005 as VP Segment Marketing and was appointed as EVP Strategy in August 2011. Prior to this he worked at Intel Corporation for 14 years in senior management roles in territories around the world including Asia, Europe and the USA, and finally as GM of the Russia/CIS office in Moscow.
François Guibert is Executive Vice President of STMicroelectronics and President of the Company’s Greater China and South Asia Region. Guibert has led ST’s operations in Asia Pacific since 2006; his responsibilities were expanded to include Greater China in 2010.
Guibert joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics, in 1981, after three years at Texas Instruments. He was appointed Director of Semicustom Business for Asia Pacific in 1987 and later became President of ST’s Taiwan operations. Guibert also held senior positions in Corporate Business Development and Investor Relations. In 2005, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President, Emerging Markets Region General Manager.
Dr. Wang is executive vice president of R&D, fulfils the leadership role in the NXP R&D community, and is a member of the management team.
He joined NXP as senior vice president, Technology & External Manufacturing in Operations, in July 2010.
Dr. Wang has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, where his management experience spans from IC design, technology R&D, front end & back end operations, global sourcing, marketing and IP licensing. Prior to joining NXP, he held several senior executive positions at LSI Corporation, Agere Systems and Flextronics Semiconductors. He was co-founder and CEO of start-up MiraWave, Inc.
Dr. Wang started his career at National Semiconductor as a technology R&D engineer.
Education:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA（1981 ）
MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA（1977 ）
Experience:
Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology（2014/3/3-2014/12/8 ）
Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan（2012-2014 ）
Regional Director of Hardware Operations in Asia, Google Inc.（2010-2012 ）
Vice President, e-Enabling Services Business Group, Acer Inc.（2000-2010 ）
Director, Department of Planning and Evaluation, （1998-2000 ）
National Science Council, Executive Yuan
Director, National Center for High-performance Computing（1991-1997 ）
Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor, （1981-1990 ）
Department of Civil Engineering, NTU
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