Shyue-Ching Lu  is a director and our chairman and chief executive officer. Dr. Lu had served as our  president from May 1996 until he was appointed our chairman in August 2008. Prior to that, Dr. Lu was  the Director General of the Department of Posts and Communications of the Ministry of Transportation  and Communications from 1993 to 1994 and the deputy director general of the Directorate General of  Telecommunications from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Lu holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the  University of Hawaii and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in  Taiwan.  Shaio-Tung Chang  is the president of our company. Mr. Chang served as a senior vice president of our  company from March 2007 to August 2008 and an executive vice president of our company and manager of  our Mobile Business Group from July 2004 to March 2007. He also served as executive vice president of our  company and manager of our International Business Group from December 2002 to July 2004. Mr. Chang holds  a master’s degree in management science from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.  Mu-Shun Lin  is a director of our company. Mr. Lin is also a director of Personnel Department at the  Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Mr. Lin holds a master’s degree in law from Ming-Chuan  University in Taiwan.  Yu-Fen Hong  is a director of our company. Ms. Hong is currently the director of the accounting department  at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. She holds a master’s degree in business & management  from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.  Gordon S. Chen  is a director of our company, and also the Chairman of Gre Tai Securities Market.  Dr. Chen has more than 28 years of services in financial sector. He gained in-depth financial expertise and  hands-on banking experience from several government positions, such as chairman of Taiwan Stock Exchange  Corporation and chairman of Taiwan Certificate Authority Corporation. Dr. Chen obtained a Ph.D. degree from  the National Taiwan University, a master’s degree in Public Finance from National Chengchi University and a  bachelor’s degree in economics at the Chinese Culture University.  Yi-Bing Lin  is a director of our company. Dr. Yi-Bing Lin received his bachelor’s degree from the National  Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle  in 1990. From 1990 to 1995, he was a research scientist with Bellcore (Telcordia). He then joined the National  Chiao Tung University, or NCTU, in Taiwan where he remains. In 1996, he served as the deputy director of  Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center at the NCTU. Between 1997 and 1999, Dr. Lin was  chairman of the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering at the NCTU. Since 2000, he has  also been appointed as an adjunct research fellow at the Academia Sinica. Between 2004 and 2006, Dr. Lin was  appointed the vice president of the office of research and development at the NCTU. From 2007 to February 22,  2011, Dr. Lin has served as the dean of the College of Computer Science at the NCTU. Since February 23, 2011,  he became the vice president of NCTU .  Jennifer Yuh-Jen Wu  is a director of our company. Dr. Wu is also currently the deputy director general of  the Institute of Transportation at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Dr. Wu was the director  of the information systems division of the Institute of Transportation from 1995 to August 2008 and also worked  as the secretary-general of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 2000. Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D.  degree from the Institute of Traffic and Transportation from the National Chiao Tung University. She also holds  two master’s degrees from Northwestern University, one in electrical engineering and computer science and one  in industrial engineering and management science.  Shih-Wei Pan  is a director of our company. Dr. Pan is also currently the political deputy minister at the  Council of Labor Affairs. Dr. Pan holds a Ph.D. degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.  Shen-Ching Chen  is a director of our company. Mr. Chen is also president of the Central News Agency, a  position he has held since July 2008. He was the assistant general manager of the Public Television Service and  assistant manager of Formosa TV’s news department. Mr. Chen obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism from  Chengchi university.  90 PART I