CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE

Diversity of Board Members


To strengthen corporate governance and promote the sound development of the Board of Directors’ composition and structure, the Company’s policy on diversity of board members per Article 20, Paragraph 3 of its Corporate Governance Best Practice Principles indicates that: the composition of the board of directors shall be determined by considering diversity.

that appropriate guidelines on diversity based on the Company's business operations, operating dynamics and development requirements shall be formulated, including but not limited to, the following two aspects of standards:

  • Basic requirements and values: Gender, age, nationality, and culture.
  • Professional knowledge and skills: A professional background (e.g.,law, accounting, industry, finance, marketing, technology,) professional skills and industry experience.

The Company’s current Board of Directors consists of 7 Directors, including 4Non-independent Directors and 3 Independent Directors. All members possess knowledge of finance, business and industry; an international market perspective; and professional ability to lead, make an operating judgment, manage the business and do crisis management.

There are not any matters specified in Items 3 and 4 of Article 26-3 of the Securities and Exchange Act. Directors who are also employees of the Company account for 14.29% of the Board; independent Directors account for 42.86 %.

The tenure of 3independent directors is less than 3、6 years, the tenure of 1 independent director is more than 9 years, 6 director is51-60 years old, 1directors are aged 61-70.

Although there are currently no female directors, in the future, female directors will be invited to join the board to consider diversity, and formulate appropriate diversity policies in a timely manner according to their own operations, operating models and development needs.

Implementation of the diversity of the Board members is as follows:

Name Diversity Items
Basic component
Nationality Gender AGE Independent directors' tenure
40-50 51-60 61-70 Lest that 3years 3~9years
Chairman
HSIN LIU
R.O.C MALE
Director
TSE WEN CHU
R.O.C MALE
Director
YU SHAN LEE
R.O.C MALE
Director
CHI HSIN CHANG
R.O.C MALE
Independent Director
JU KAI LAI
R.O.C MALE
(Note 1)
Independent Director
WEI DAR CHEN
R.O.C MALE
Independent Director
YI KUANG LI
R.O.C MALE
Board Member
Job Title
Basic component
Industrial experience Professional ability
Ability to make operational judgments Ability to perform accounting and financial analysis Ability to conduct management administration Ability to conduct crisis management Knowledge of the industry An international market perspective Information Technology Finance The legal profession
Chairman
HSIN LIU
Director
TSE WEN CHU
Director
YU SHAN LEE
Director
CHI HSIN CHANG
Independent Director
JU KAI LAI
Independent Director
WEI DAR CHEN
Independent Director
YI KUANG LI

Board independence

Board independence The company has three independent directors, with two serving terms of 3 and 6 years, and one independent director with a consecutive term of 9 years. Due to their industry expertise and experience in corporate management, they continue to be appointed as independent directors, contributing significantly to the company. Independent directors make up 42.86% of the total board members All independent directors comply with the regulations concerning independent directors set forth by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC). All directors meet the requirements of Article 26-3, Article 26-4, and related provisions of the Securities and Exchange Act, and there are no instances of directors having spousal or first-degree blood relative relationships within two degrees of consanguinity among them.

(Note 1) Considering that independent director JU KAI LAI possesses industry expertise and management experience beneficial to the company, even though they have been re-elected as an independent director of the company for three consecutive terms, the company continues to rely on their expertise to provide oversight and professional advice to the Board of Directors.