Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM)

C.C. Wei is chairman and chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). He was chief executive and vice chairman from June 2018 to June 2024, and president and co-chief executive from November 2013 to June 2018. He joined in 1998 from Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore, where he was senior vice president of technology, after managing logic and SRAM technology development at STMicroelectronics in Texas, and holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University. 123

Two long-serving insiders share the job of chief operating officer: Y.P. Chyn, who joined in 1987, and Y.J. Mii, who joined in 1994 and ran research and development as senior vice president from November 2016 to February 2024. Their deputies are Cliff Hou, with the company since 1997, and Kevin Zhang, who came from Intel in November 2016 and runs business development and global sales. Wendell Huang, who joined in 1999 from ING Barings, has been chief financial officer since September 2019. Ray Chuang became chief executive of TSMC Arizona on October 1, 2025, and Lora Ho, senior vice president of corporate strategy development, retired on April 4, 2026. 45678910111213

The board has ten directors, seven of them independent, and five of the seven are former chief executives: Sir Peter L. Bonfield of British Telecommunications, Michael R. Splinter of Applied Materials, Moshe N. Gavrielov of Xilinx, Ursula M. Burns of Xerox and Lynn L. Elsenhans of Sunoco, joined by L. Rafael Reif, president of MIT from 2012 to 2022, and Chuan Lin, a former Minister of Finance and Premier of the Executive Yuan. F.C. Tseng, vice chairman from July 2005 to June 2018, is a director. The National Development Fund of the R.O.C., which has held a board seat since the founding and owns 6.38% of the shares, has been represented by Chun-Hsien Yeh since September 1, 2025. The SEC's insider record of its officers begins in 2026: all 42 people on it first filed that year. 14151617181920212223242526

TSMC had 90,557 full-time employees at the end of 2025, up from 83,825 a year earlier and 76,478 in 2023: 9,582 managers, 44,690 professionals, 11,368 assistant engineers and clerical staff, and 24,917 technicians. Most work in Taiwan's science parks, 33,507 in Hsinchu, 24,702 in the south and 8,830 in central Taiwan; abroad, 5,290 work in North America, 4,402 in China, 2,447 in Japan and 209 in Europe. Of the whole workforce, 3.6% hold doctorates and 49.8% master's degrees. Employees share in the profits: for 2025 the company paid a business performance bonus of NT$103,073 million and says an equal cash profit sharing bonus is to be distributed in July 2026. 2728293031