Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (SIMO)

Wallace C. Kou founded Silicon Motion in 1995 and has been its president and chief executive ever since; the annual report also names him managing director. Before founding it he was vice president and chief architect at the multimedia products division of Western Digital, which made graphics processors for notebook PCs and was sold to Philips Semiconductor in 1995, and before that he worked at Wyse Technology. James Chow has chaired the board since April 2005 and has chaired Concord Financial, an investment holding company, since 1993. In the annual report's ownership table Kou holds about 1.4% of the ordinary shares and Chow about 1.2%. 12345

Two other senior managers are named. Jason Tsai, the chief financial officer, joined as vice president of investor relations and finance in September 2023, took the finance job on an interim basis in April 2024 and was appointed to it in October 2024; he had run investor relations at Zendesk, Synaptics and, from 2008 to 2019, Silicon Motion itself, and spent over a decade as an equity research analyst on Wall Street. Nelson Duann, who also sits on the board, has been senior vice president for client and automotive storage since December 2023, after leading marketing and research for mobile storage from November 2018; he joined in August 2007 and came from Sun Microsystems, where he worked on UltraSPARC processors. 678910

The board has nine directors, two of them in place since June 2005, Tsung-Ming Chung and Lien-Chun Liu. Chung, an audit partner at Arthur Andersen from 1985 to 2000 who now chairs the battery pack maker Dynapack, leads the audit committee and is its designated financial expert. The others are Steve Chen, chairman of Mercuries, since 2012; Han-Ping D. Shieh, a life chair professor at a Taiwanese university, since 2014; Kenneth Kuan-Ming Lin, who returned in September 2018 after a first spell from 2009 to 2014; and Cain Lin, managing director of Cedar Capital, since December 2023. The company says it is not owned or controlled by any other corporation, government or person, and names one holder above 5% of the shares, FMR LLC, with 10%. On the record this site holds, seven directors filed their first insider reports with the SEC in March 2026. 111213141516171819202122

At the end of 2025 Silicon Motion counted 2,009 employees, up from 1,546 two years earlier. Research and development holds most of them, 1,667 people, against 172 in sales and marketing, and 1,837 of the staff are engineers. Nearly nine in ten, 1,757 people, work in Taiwan; 196 are in China, 34 in the United States, 12 in Korea and 10 in Japan. Its main research centers are in Hsinchu and Taipei, which work on the flash controllers, and in Shanghai, which works on what customers in China need. It has no collective bargaining arrangements and says relations with its staff are good. 23242526