GSI Technology (GSIT)

Lee-Lean Shu co-founded GSI Technology in March 1995 and has been its president, chief executive and a director ever since, and chairman since October 2000. Before that he designed SRAM chips at Sony Microelectronics, ending as its director of SRAM design. He beneficially owns 9.0% of the shares; the directors and executive officers together own 16.6%. 1234

The management team is unusually long-serving. Douglas Schirle has been chief financial officer since August 2000, Didier Lasserre vice president of sales since July 2002, Bor-Tay Wu head of Taiwan operations since January 1997 and Ping Wu head of US operations since September 2006. Patrick Chuang, senior vice president of memory design, came with Sony's SRAM product line in July 2009, and Avidan Akerib, who runs associative computing, came with the purchase of MikaMonu Group in November 2015; he is named inventor on more than 50 patents in parallel and in-memory associative computing. 567891011

The board has five members: Shu; Elizabeth Cholawsky (since September 2019), the lead independent director and chief executive of HG Insights from April 2018 to June 2024; Haydn Hsieh (since August 2008), chairman and chief strategy officer of WNC, formerly Wistron NeWeb; Ruey L. Lu (since October 2000), president of eMPIA Technology, which he founded; and Ronald R. Steger (since August 2025), an audit partner at KPMG until 2013. WNC builds GSI's APU boards, and the proxy discloses about $223,000 of engineering and manufacturing services bought from it in fiscal 2026. 121314151617181920

At March 31, 2026 GSI had 125 full-time employees, including 90 engineers, 56 of them in research and development and 40 with PhD or MS degrees; 11 people work in sales and marketing, 9 in administration and 49 in manufacturing. By site, 38 are in Sunnyvale, 44 in Taiwan and 36 in Israel. None belong to a union. In August 2024 it cut its global workforce by about 16%. 212223