Shih selected SIU chairman of Acer

With Shih retiring as chairman, the topic of who will become Acer's successor has aroused much concern. Yesterday, Acer's chairman announced that it would recommend Acer co-founder Siu as chairman of Acer.

For the chairman, Shih wants him to meet the following conditions: At least 50 years old, with enough experience. In line with this condition, there are Igware founder Jenvi, incumbent Acer Supervisor Siu.

Recommended Siu, Shih said, SIU since the inception of Acer's PC sales work, and has served as the Personal computer business group general Manager and chief financial officer, also entered the field of E-commerce, telecommunications. It is particularly important that this person has absolute confidence in Acer and will firmly lead Acer to the future transformation of transformation.

Yesterday, Shih issued an open letter stating that he would be chairman of the board of Directors of SIU, but Shih would still be the convenor of the Acer Change Committee and the BYOC (Jianyun) Chief architect. Shih stressed that the future is no longer responsible for the actual operation of the company, but the company's vision and future development strategy, will still be concerned.

In Shih's letter, the SIU's resume was disclosed: SIU in the early days of Acer's inception, that is, to participate in the sales of PCs, the first to take the product abroad to participate in the exhibition, is one of the Acer brand PC to the international people, in the 1980-2000 's as many department heads, He has served as general Manager and chief financial officer of PC business group.

Shih said that in the 1990 's, after the emergence of the network, Siu entered the field of E-commerce, including planning, the establishment of Acer Drama Valley, the Acer ticketing system, data centers. At that time Siu was in charge of Acer's Acer group, which was involved in Taiwan's first wave of internet and e-commerce business.

Siu, a longtime director of Acer, was a member of Acer's board of Directors in 2005, and was well aware of the company's boardroom and operating team.

In addition, on yesterday's Acer board, the Acer group also decided to increase the number of directors, 1 alone, the new 6 directors, 3 single dong. It is expected that the new chairman will be formally elected after the June 18 shareholder meeting.