Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX)
Who runs Himax Technologies, Inc.
Officers and directors as they report to the SEC on Forms 3, 4 and 5, named as filedJordan Wu is president, chief executive and a director. Before the October 2005 reorganization that put a Cayman Islands holding company over the Taiwan operating company, he had chaired Himax Taiwan since April 2003. He came to the business from finance: chief executive of TV Plus Technologies, chief financial officer and executive director of DVN Holdings in Hong Kong, and before that an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Baring Securities. 123
His brother, Dr. Biing-Seng Wu, chairs the board. He was president and chief executive of Himax Taiwan before the 2005 reorganization, served as vice chairman of CMO before its merger with the predecessor of Innolux, and earlier ran a plant for Prime View International, a panel maker. As of February 2026 the chairman beneficially owned about 22.0% of the shares and the chief executive about 2.2%; the filing itself warns that together they can carry substantial weight in shareholder votes. 4567
Two other executive officers are named. Jessica Pan (Ming-Feng Pan), the chief financial officer, joined in 2006 after working at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering from 2002 to 2006, and served as interim finance chief from October 2010 to January 2012. Hsien-Chang Tsai, vice president for sales and operations, joined in 2002, having worked before that in TSMC's process integration and customer service department, and led the purchase of Spatial Photonics while at Himax Display. Three of the five directors are independent: Dr. Yan-Kuin Su and Dr. Liang-Gee Chen, both electrical engineering professors, Chen a former minister of science and technology, and Yuan-Chuan Horng, who spent 40 years in finance at China Steel. On the record this site holds, all seven people filed their first insider reports with the SEC in March 2026. 891011121314151617
At the end of 2025 Himax counted 2,238 employees, against 2,164 two years earlier. Nearly two in three, 1,444 people, work in research and development, a group that includes design, application, assembly and testing, and quality engineers; 307 work in engineering and manufacturing, including the staff of the subsidiaries that make its optics and microdisplays; 339 in sales and marketing, counting field application engineers; and 148 in administration. 18192021
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| Name | Title as filed | First filing | Latest filing | Sales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wu Jordan | President, CEO | Mar 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | none |
| Pan Ming-Feng | Chief Financial Officer | Mar 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | none |
| Tsai Hsien-Chang | VP, Sales and Operations | Mar 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | none |
| Name | Role | First filing | Latest filing | Sales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chen Liang-Gee | director | Mar 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | none |
| Horng Yuan-Chuan | director | Mar 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | none |
| Su Yan-Kuin | director | Mar 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | none |
| Wu Biing-Seng | director | Mar 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | none |
A person is listed as reporting now after a filing in the last fifteen months. The record shows when someone last filed; it does not say why they stopped. Each name links to the filings on sec.gov.