Directors
Yung-Peng Chang
Chairman of the Board, Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Chang serves as the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Company since February 2024. Dr. Chang is the Co-founder of Taiwan Color Optics, Inc. (TCO) and has served as the President of TCO since 2009. At TCO, Dr. Chang leads TCO’s efforts in developing LiDAR solution, intelligent headlight, optical design, and 3D-sensing R&D projects. For such efforts, under Dr. Chang’s leadership, TCO received the 1st prize of the Asia Science Park Association in October of 2015. From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Chang was Section Manager in charge of optical research department of Everest Display Inc. (which merged into K Laser Group on June 30, 2020) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2461), a pioneer in optical hologram origination, hologram embossing and the material deposition process, where Dr. Chang successfully developed the microstructure of LCD backlight modules for LCD TVs, the optical engine of 3-panel LCD projector, and optical interactive whiteboards. Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Chung Hsing University of Taiwan. Dr. Chang is primary author or co-author of numerous scientific papers on LiDAR solution, intelligent headlight, optical design, and 3D-sensing in leading academic and industry journals such as Optics Express and journals of SPIE.
Alan Chih-Feng Wang
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Wang serves as the Co-CEO of the Company since February 2024. Mr. Wang is a Co-founder and Director of TCO. At TCO, Mr. Wang specializes in development of optical thin-film and LiDAR infrared coating technology. Before founding TCO, Mr. Wang headed the R&D department of Kinko Optical (Taipei Exchange: 6209) from 2001 to 2008, where he was in charge of the development of DWDM for optical communications and UVIR optical filter for projectors. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Wang served as a Technical Consultant to Calin Technology (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 4976), a provider of optical lenses, on optical thin-film coating technology. Mr. Wang holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Executive MBA from Feng Chai University of Taiwan.
Charles W. Tu
Independent Director
Dr. Tu serves as Independent Director of the Company since February 2024. Dr. Tu is a Yushan Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), since 2018. He joined the UCSD faculty in 1988 and was appointed an Associate Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering in 2004, after serving from 1999 to 2003 as the Chair of the ECE department. Dr. Tu’s research interests include novel III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for electronic, optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. He was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1980 to 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University in 1978 and his B.Sc. (Hon.) in Physics from McGill University in 1971. Prof. Tu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the AVS Science and Technology Society. He received Taiwan’s Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Outstanding Research Award in 2009, the North American MBE Innovator Award in 2011, an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden in 2013, the IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Educator Award in 2014, and the International MBE Conference Al Cho MBE Award in 2020.
Mu-Jung Yang
Independent Director
Mr. Yang serves as Independent Director of the Company since February 2024. Mr. Yang is Managing Supervisor at Yun Tong Motor Transportation Company, Ltd., and is a Director at Chan Lone Industrial Company, Ltd. and Asia Professional Group Company, Ltd. Mr. Yang has advanced analytics skills in consumer finance and risk management, and possesses coordination and organization skills to improve the effectiveness of collaboration between government, universities and industry. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Yang was Deputy Secretary-general of Academia-Industry Consortium for Science Parks in Central Taiwan. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Yang was Chief Executive Officer of Pro Loan Financing Company, Ltd. (a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Nice Group). From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Yang was Senior Manager in the Department of Consumer Finance of Fu Hua Commercial Bank. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Yang was Secretary general of National Chung Hsing University Alumni Association. Mr. Yang holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
Kwan Sun
Independent Director
Mr. Sun serves as Independent Director of the Company since February 2024. Mr. Sun has served as an Independent Director of Chenghe Acquisition Co. since April 2022. Mr. Sun founded Millburn Advisory LLC, a real estate fund manager, in 2018 and has served as its managing partner since then. From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Sun served as the Vice Chairman of Nan Fung Group’s US businesses to help develop Nan Fung Group’s US real estate business. Since October 2023, Mr. Sun has served as an Independent Director of Chenghe SPAC I. Mr. Sun served as a Director at Deutsche Bank in structured products department from 1997 to 2003, and as a Director at Morgan Stanley in structured products department from 2003 to 2007. Thereafter, Mr. Sun served as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in structured products department from 2007 to 2009 and as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in the investment banking department from 2009 to 2014. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 1997, he served as a Vice President the capital markets department of Merrill Lynch, where he focused on trading fix income derivatives. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1992. Mr. Sun graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University.