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Stan Hung
Chairman
Stan Hung |
Stan Hung is chairman & chief strategic officer of UMC. Mr. Hung was formerly chief financial officer and senior vice president at UMC, chairman of ITE TECH. INC. and director of EPISTAR Corporation. Mr. Hung concurrently serves as chairman of Fortune Venture Capital Corp., TLC Capital Co., Ltd., Faraday Technology Corporation, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp., UMC Capital Corp., director of Triknight Capital Corporation, United Microelectronics (Europe) B.V., and executive director of UnitedDS Semiconductor (Shandong) Co., Ltd. Mr. Hung received a bachelor degree in accounting from Tamkang University in 1982. |
SC Chien
Director
SC Chien |
SC Chien is director and president of UMC. Mr. Chien joined UMC from 1989 and used to be the head of advanced technology development, specialty technology development and customer engineering departments. Mr. Chien is the representative institutional director of Hsun Chieh Investment Co., Ltd., and also serves as director of Fortune Venture Capital Corp., TLC Capital Co., Ltd., Unimicron Technology Corp. and UMC Capital Corp. Mr. Chien received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University. |
Jason Wang
Director
Jason Wang |
Jason Wang is director and president of UMC. Mr. Wang is the representative institutional director of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Mr. Wang serves as a board member of UMC GROUP (USA) since 2004 and joined UMC as Vice President of Corporate Marketing in 2008, and from 2009 to 2014, served as President of UMC GROUP (USA) responsible for business operation efficiency enhancement and UMC North America strategic business development. Mr. Wang concurrently serves as director of Fortune Venture Capital Corp., TLC Capital Co., Ltd., UMC Group (USA), United Microelectronics (Europe) B.V., UMC Capital Corp., United Microtechnology Corporation (California), and eJoule International Limited. Mr. Wang studied Business Administration at San Jose State University. |
Lih J. Chen
Independent director
Lih J. Chen |
Lih J. Chen is independent director of UMC. Professor Chen is a Distinguished Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University and Academician at Academia Sinica. He was also the President of National Tsing Hua University and the Deputy Ministers of National Science Council. Professor Chen received a Ph.D. in physics at University of California, Berkeley in 1974. |
Wenyi Chu
Independent director
Wenyi Chu |
Wenyi Chu is independent director of UMC. Professor Chu is professor at the Department of Business Administration at National Taiwan University. Professor Chu was the Chairwoman of the Graduate Institute of Business Administration and the Dean of Department of Business Administration in National Taiwan University from 2012 to 2014. Professor Chu concurrently serves as independent director of Winmate Inc and LeRain Technology Co., Ltd.. Professor Chu received a Ph.D. degree in Strategy and International Management from London Business School in 1997. |
Jyuo-Min Shyu
Independent director
Jyuo-Min Shyu |
Jyuo-Min Shyu is independent director of UMC. Professor Shyu is an Emeritus Professor at National Tsing Hua University. He was also the Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute. Professor Shyu concurrently serves as independent director of Qisda Corporation, and Far Eastone Telecommunications Co., Ltd., director of Iridium Medical Technology Co., Ltd., GeoThings Inc., and Alpha Ring Asia Inc. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
Kuang Si Shiu
Independent director
Kuang Si Shiu |
Kuang Si Shiu is independent director of UMC. Mr. Shiu concurrently serves as independent director of Yuanta Financial Holdings Co., Ltd. and Yuanta Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. Mr. Shiu served in financial institutions for over 30 years, he was also formerly Chairman & President of Mega Financial Holding Co., Ltd. and Mega International Commercial Bank Co., Ltd., Chairman of Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co., Ltd., Hua Nan Commercial Bank Ltd. and Land Bank of Taiwan Co., Ltd. Mr. Shiu received a MBA degree in Indiana University in 1978. |
Wen-Hsin Hsu
Independent director
Wen-Hsin Hsu |
Wen-Hsin Hsu is independent director of UMC. Professor Hsu is professor at the Department of Accounting at National Taiwan University. Professor Hsu is Director of Global MBA in National Taiwan University from 2019, Associate Dean of International affairs of College of Management School in National Taiwan University from 2020. Professor Hsu concurrently serves as independent director of Unitech Printed Circuit Board Corp., and ANT Precision Industry Co., Ltd., director of Taiwan Insurance Guaranty Fund. Professor Hsu received a Ph.D. degree in Accounting &Finance from Lancaster University in 2006. |
Ting-Yu Lin
Director
Ting-Yu Lin |
Ting-Yu Lin is director of UMC. Mr. Lin is also the chairman of Sunrox International Inc., Sunrotek Corp., and Sunrox Industries. Inc., and the director of Unimicron Technology Corp. He received his master’s degree in International Finance from Meiji University in 1993.
The UMC Board of Directors comprises of 9 members, including 5 seats for independent directors and 1 for a non-executive director; 3 serve as administrative directors. More than half of the director seats are filled by members of outside companies. There are 2 seats currently reserved for a female director. Based on our policy of gender equality, UMC will increase the female director seats progressively.
The tenures of independent directors are also diversified; there is 1 director that has served for 6 years, 2 directors for 3 years and 2 newly elected directors.
The board of UMC is composed of members with diversified backgrounds of industry, government and academy. The experiences of board members include the president of national university, academician of Academia Sinica, the Minister of Science and Technology, the president of ITRI, financial experts in finance, accounting and strategy management fields, and professionals from the semiconductor industry, ICT business administration and financial institutions. The directors satisfy basic criteria and professionalism requirements, and through activities of the sub-committees, can also contribute their experiences to supervise and govern issues related to corporate governance, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, legal compliance and human rights protection.
All independent directors meet the restriction of the Regulations Governing Appointment of Independent Directors and Compliance Matters for Public Companies for other mandates, each independent director concurrently does not serve as an independent director for more than 3 listed companies.
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The Company conducts annual self-evaluation of the performance of the Board of Directors, its functional committees and individual board member based on the “Rules for Performance Evaluation of the Board of Directors" approved by the Board of Directors. The performance results are graded as "Excellent", "Good", or "Room for Improvement". The Nominating Committee conducted the self-evaluation for 2023 of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee, other functional committees(Capital Budget Committee and Nominating Committee) and individual board members and reported the result to the Nominating Committee and Board of Directors on February 27, 2024. The evaluation content is listed below, and the performance result was "Excellent". The Chief Corporate Governance Officer will persist in improving communication with directors to enhance the quality of the Board of Directors' meetings.
(1)Familiarity with the goals and missions of the company;
(2)Awareness of the duties of a director;
(3)Participation in the operation of the company;
(4)Management of internal relationship and communication;
(5)The director's professionalism and continuing education; and
(6)Internal control.
Evaluation period:2023/1/1~2023/12/31.
Performance result:Excellent.
To improve the operating efficiency of the Board of Directors and enhance corporate governance, “The Rules for Performance Evaluation of the Board of Directors" was revised by UMC and approved by the Board of Directors in October of 2017, which requires the Company's board performance evaluation to be conducted by an external independent professional institution or a panel of external experts and scholars at least once every three years.
The Company engaged with an external independent institution, Taiwan Corporate Governance Association, a professional institution is independent and has no business relation with the Company, to conduct an assessment on board performance, and completed the evaluation on October 25, 2023. The assessment comprised of 8 scopes including Composition, Direction, Authorization, Monitoring, Communication, Internal control, Risk management and Discipline of the Board, and the external institution executed the review through online self-assessment and interview. The assessment report was released on December 8, 2023 and reported to the Nominating Committee and the Board on December 13, 2023.
The report concluded that UMC paid significant attention to the professionalism and diversity of the composition of the Board, and rigorously selected qualified candidates based on the Company's development needs and strategic goals. The seats of independent directors and female directors has exceeded the regulatory requirements, the Company has made leading arrangements with international perspective and which is praiseworthy. Board members actively speak on various issues and directly communicate with the management, the Board share a good culture with aggressive and effective benefits. The Board focused the importance in sustainable development and risk management issues, which not only integrated sustainable goals with business operations, but also linked employee compensations with the achievement of ESG KPIs, which will strive to enhance the effectiveness of sustainable management. The Company emphasized on the development and cultivation of high-level management, and the succession plan in management team to reserve talents for the company's sustainable development. The report addressed a recommendation on renaming the Nomination Committee to the Sustainability and Nominating Committee, and improving the relevant rules and regulations of the ESG organization, in order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Board. The company will implement the improvement plan within the next year in accordance with the recommendations of the report.
To ensure a fair, just, and open election of directors, the nomination and election procedures of the Company’s directors shall be complied with the Company Act and all related laws and regulations. The organizational culture, business model and long-term development of the Company shall be taken into consideration to the composition of the Board members. The criteria established to ensure the diversity of the Board members shall include but not limited to the following three dimensions:
Each board member shall possess the indispensable knowledge, skill, and experience to perform their duties; the capabilities with which the Board as a whole shall equip include the followings: business acumen, knowledge of accounting and financial analysis, business management, crisis management, industry knowledge, global perspective, leadership and decision-making.
At least one among the independent directors of the Company shall be an accounting or finance professional.
No independent director of the Company may concurrently serve as an independent director of more than three other public companies.
Each director must be held by a person having neither a spousal relationship nor a relationship within the second degree of kinship with any other directors.
The performance assessment of the Board shall be reviewed annually according to the assessment guideline and procedure of the Company, and will be conducted by an external independent professional institution or a panel of external experts at least once every three years; the results will be referenced for nomination and election of the directors.
Nomination and Election |
The Company shall have nine (9) to eleven (11) directors who serve a term of three years, elected at the shareholders’ meeting from persons of legal capacity through a nominating system adopted from 2006. A director may be re-elected. |
At least three (3) directors or one-fifth of all directors, whichever is higher, shall be independent directors. Their qualifications, shareholding limitations, whether or not they concurrently serve in other positions, methods of nomination and election, and other related matters shall be subject to applicable laws. |
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According to Article 192-1 of the R.O.C. Company Act, UMC announced on March 19, 2021, the period for accepting the nomination of director candidates (including independent directors), the number of directors to be elected, the place designated for accepting the roster of director nominees and other necessary matters. Any shareholder holding 1% or more of the outstanding shares of the Company may nominate candidate(s) for directors in writing. Any shareholder qualified to nominate may submit nominee(s) to the director, and shall send, during the nomination period from April 1 to April 12, 2021, the name, educational background, past work experience of the nominee(s), and other relevant documents to UMC via registered mail sent to the Finance Division of the Company. There were no nominations from stockholders except those from the Board during the nomination period.
Director Candidate List |
Directors' Professional Knowledge and Independence Information |
List of Directors Elected |
Meeting Date | Major Resolutions |
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2018.03.07 |
Approved the 2017 Business Report and Financial Statements. Approved the 2017 distributable compensation for employees and directors. Approved the 2017 Dividend Distribution. Approved termination of the issuance plan for private placement, which was approved at the 2017 Annual General Meeting. Approved the proposal for private placement based on future operation needs and will propose at the 2018 Annual General Meeting for discussion Approved the date of convening the 2018 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, meeting agenda and submission period for shareholder proposals. Approved capital budget execution. Approved to increase, endorse and guarantee the syndication loan for United Semiconductor (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. Approved to change Chartered Public Accountant due to the internal reorganization of the CPA firm. Approved Approved UMC's donation to UMC Science and Culture Foundation. Approved to release the managerial officer from non-competition restrictions. Approved the Company's 18th share repurchase program. |
2018.04.25 |
Approved the Q1, 2018 Consolidated Financial Statements. Approved capital budget execution. Approved to release the managerial officer from non-competition restrictions. Approved the announced merger between Fortune Venture Capital Corp. and subsidiary UMC New Business Investment Corp. |
2018.06.12 |
Stan Hung is unanimously elected as Chairman by the Board of Directors. Approved to appoint members of the 4th term of remuneration committee. Approved to appoint members of the 2nd term of nominating committee. Approved the record date for 2017 cash dividend. Approved the adjustment of 2017 cash dividend ratio. |
2018.06.29 |
Approved proposal for HeJian Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company, to issue an initial public offering ("IPO") of RMB denominated ordinary shares (A-shares) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Approved to release the managerial officer from non-competition restrictions. Approved the date of convening the 2018 Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, meeting agenda and submission period for shareholder proposals. Approved the acquisition of the common shares of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited. |
2018.07.25 |
Approved the Q2, 2018 Consolidated Financial Statements. Approved capital budget execution. Approved the acquisition of the common shares of Nexpower Technology Corporation. |
2018.10.24 |
Approved the Q3, 2018 Consolidated Financial Statements. |
2018.11.05 |
Approved the Company’s 19th share repurchase program. |
2018.12.12 |
Approved capital budget execution. |