Diversity and Independence of the Board of Directors
On March 19, 2015, the board of directors of the company passed the ”Corporate Governance Best Practice Principles”, and set out a diversity policy in Chapter 3 “Enhancing the Functions of the Board of Directors”.
The nomination and selection of members of the board of directors follows the provisions of the company’s “Articles of Incorporation“, adopts the candidate nomination system, and follows the “Rules for Election of Directors” and ” Corporate Governance Best Practice Principles ” to ensure the diversity and independence of the board members.
There are 13 members of the tenth board of directors (including 4 independent directors), except for 2 female members, Ms. Huang, Ting-Rong and Ms. Huang, Chi-Rong, who are good at business management and financial accounting affairs; good at leadership, operational judgment, business management, crisis Those who deal with industry knowledge and international market views include Mr. Lin, Lung-Fen, Mr. Cheng, Deng-Yuan, Mr. Lu, Ta-Wei, Mr. Shaw, Shung-Ho and Mr. Wu, Cheng-Huan; Mr. Hsieh, Chin-Ho, who specializes in domestic and foreign financial affairs; Lin, Chih-Min, who specializes in legal affairs As for the three independent directors including Mr. Lai, Chien-Hua, Mr. Cheng, Wen-Feng, Huang, Ta-Lun and Lu,Hsi-Peng, they are specialized in financial and accounting affairs, leadership, operation, investing management respectively, possess academic and industrial knowledge and international market perspective.
There are 15.38% of female directors and 15.38% of directors with employee status, two directors are under the age of 50, five directors are 56-65 years old, six directors are 66-75 years old. Two of independent directors have terms of office less than 3 years, and one independent director a term of 4-6 years. Although one independent director of the company has served for more than 9 years. He has extensive practical experience, which is obviously helpful to the company’s business planning and decision-making, and continues to be elected as an independent director of the company. By the end of 2023, the average tenure of Board members is 10.88 years.
There are four independent directors in the tenth board, accounting for 30.77% of all directors, it’s more independent than the ninth board. In addition, except for Huang, Ting-Rong and Huang, Chi-Rong, whose relatives within the second degree of kinship do not exceed half of the seats on the board of directors, none of the other members of the board of directors has the conditions specified in Article 26-3 Items 3 and 4 of the Securities and Exchange Act. , the Board of Directors of the Company is still independent.