President and co-founder of HTC and VIP Technologies - LSA

Published November 22, 2013 at 16:00

President and co-founder of HTC and VIP Technologies

BIOGRAPHY

Cher Wang was born on September 14 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan.

She is married and the mother of two children.

In 2011, Cher Wang is ranked 20th in the annual list of the “Most Powerful Women” Forbes and Fortune magazines.

TRAINING

1981 MA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley

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CAREER STEPS

1987 creation of VIP Technologies
1997. creation of HTC
2007. President of HTC .

ACHIEVEMENTS

Cher Wang is an entrepreneur and philanthropist Taiwanese, co-founder of HTC Group. It creates several companies in the IT sector. In 1982, she began her career at the First international computer group in the United States before selling motherboards work in the division of personal computers in the same group.

In 1987, she founded VIP Technologies, a manufacturer of integrated circuits: Chipset motherboards, processors, graphics processors, GPU and memory. Ten years later, she created in collaboration with HTC Corporation with Peter Chou. Cher Wang is president of both companies VIP Technologies and HTC.

In 2010, she co-founded the Women’s Forum ABAC in order to identify policy recommendations for the development of the potential to increase opportunities for women in business. It also helps organize outreach activities in the economies of the Economic Cooperation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Under his leadership, HTC is a leading mobile technology.

Founded in 1997 by Cher Wang and Peter Chou, HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese company specialized in manufacturing Smartphones originally intended for the Windows Mobile platform and Microsoft since 2008, to Android. In 2008, she created the first Android phone in the world: HTC G1

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In 2011, the Taiwanese manufacturer has annual revenues of 12 billion euros, up 67% year on year.

In 2013, HTC reported a net loss of 2.97 billion Taiwan dollars, ie € 74.3 million. Sales decreased by 33% in one year and according to the consulting firm ABI Research, HTC is no longer part of the ten largest sellers of smartphones.

Other:
industrial partner at the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Member of Business Advisory Council Economic Cooperation Asia. Pacific APEC (ABAC).