Diodes Incorporated (DIOD)

Gary Yu became chief executive on May 13, 2025, succeeding Dr. Keh-Shew Lu, and has been president and a director since January 2024. He joined the company in 2008 and has held a run of operating jobs there: chief operating officer, head of the business groups and of the integration of Lite-On Semiconductor, president of the Asia Pacific region, and general manager of the Shanghai wafer plant and of the BCD business unit. Before that he spent over 10 years at Lite-On Semiconductor as vice president of worldwide sales and worked at Texas Instruments in IT, finance and capacity planning. He is married to the niece of Dr. Lu, who remains chairman. 123456

Dr. Lu, 79, has been a director since 2001 and chairman since May 2020; he was chief executive until May 2025 and still serves as a special advisor to the chief executive. He came from Texas Instruments, where he ran worldwide mixed-signal and logic products from 1998 to 2001, and Texas Instruments runs through the management team. Brett R. Whitmire, chief financial officer since March 2019 and with the company for over 15 years, began his career there; Jin Zhao, who worked there from 2001 to 2014, has led the Asia Pacific region since March 2024 and took over worldwide manufacturing and quality in December 2025; Andy (Kuo-Ting) Tsong, who spent over 15 years there before joining in 2009, became head of the worldwide products group in December 2025. Richard D. White, a former chief financial officer who spent 25 years at Texas Instruments, has been corporate secretary and special assistant to the chief executive since February 2019. Francis Tang became chief technology officer in December 2025 after running the discrete product group since 2006, and Emily Yang, head of worldwide sales and marketing, came with the purchase of Pericom Semiconductor in 2015. 768910111213141516171819

The proxy statement for the 2026 annual meeting put up seven nominees for the board. Besides Dr. Lu and Mr. Yu they were Angie Chen Button, a director since 2021 and the lead independent director, a Texas state representative since 2009 who worked for Texas Instruments for over 30 years; Elizabeth Bull, a director since 2023 who chairs the audit committee, formerly vice president and treasurer of Texas Instruments; Warren Chen, a director since 2020, formerly vice chairman and group chief executive of Lite-On Technology, who also sits on the board of Nuvoton, which sells Diodes wafers; Huey-Jen (Jenny) Su, a director since 2025, president of National Cheng Kung University from 2015 to 2023; and Philip J. Ritter, the one nominee not already a director, who spent two decades in legal, government relations and public affairs roles at Texas Instruments. Robert E. Feiger was to retire from the board to return to practicing law. In July 2026 the board added Evan Yu, effective August 1, 2026, a former senior vice president for worldwide power products who retired from the company in January 2023; the company calls him independent and says he has no family relationship with any director or executive officer. 20721222324252627282930313233

At the end of 2025 Diodes had 7,989 employees: 6,753 in Asia, 790 in Europe and 446 in the Americas. None of those in Asia or the United States is covered by a collective bargaining agreement; in Europe every employee has an individual employment agreement, and some collective bargaining agreements are in place. Its design, engineering and marketing offices are in China, England, Scotland, Slovakia, Taiwan and the United States. 3435