Himax Technologies Appoints Jackie Chang as Chief Financial Officer
20 Januar 2012 - 2:00PM
Himax Technologies, Inc. ("Himax" or "Company") (Nasdaq:HIMX), a
leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and
other semiconductor products, today announced the appointment of
Ms. Jackie Chang as the company's CFO with immediate effect. She
will report to Jordan Wu, Himax's President and CEO. Chang succeeds
Jessica Pan, the company's interim CFO. Pan will stay with the
company to continue her role as head of accounting and treasury
operations, reporting to Chang.
"On behalf of the company and our Board of Directors, it is with
great excitement that we welcome Jackie to the Himax family," said
Wu. "She has a proven record of excellence in finance, accounting
and management and is well-suited to take up this critical position
at a time when we diversify our product portfolio and expand our
investor base. We are thrilled to have Jackie join our team."
Ms. Chang is an accomplished corporate executive with over 25
years of professional experience in finance, accounting and
operations, having worked for both entrepreneurial and
multinational corporations in retail, distribution and
manufacturing segments, and for the past several years in the
consumer electronics and automotive manufacturing industries.
Previously, she was CFO of Castlink Corporation, where she was
responsible for financial reporting and operations. Prior to that,
she served as the VP of Finance and Operations for PlayHut, Inc.
where she was in charge of the entire finance, auditing, supply
chain management and procurement operations for the firm's
multinational platform. Prior to joining PlayHut, Chang was an
executive for Nissan North America for 13 years where she held
several positions in finance, treasury, business planning,
operations and accounting. As the General Manager of Treasury
Control for Nissan, Ms. Chang consolidated the accounting
procedures of Chinese GAAP to IFRS for Nissan's China joint venture
operations and led the successful launch of the company's ERP
systems.
Jackie's contact information is listed below.
Jackie Chang
Chief Financial Officer
W: 886-2-2370-3999 ext. 22300
jackie_chang@himax.com.tw
About Himax Technologies, Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HIMX) is a fabless
semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imagine
processing technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader in
display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops,
monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation,
and many other consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax
designs and provides controllers for touch sensor displays, LCOS
micro-displays used in palm-size projectors and head-mount
displays, LED driver ICs, power management ICs, and chipsets for
TVs and monitors. The company also offers digital camera solutions,
including CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics, which are used
in a wide variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet,
laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security and medical devices.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax
currently employs 1,500 people from three Taiwan-based offices in
Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea,
Japan and the US. With more than 1,200 patents in three continents
on its technologies, Himax has retained its position as the leading
display image processing semiconductor solution provider to
consumer electronics brands worldwide.
http://www.himax.com.tw
Forward Looking Statements
Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ
materially include, but not limited to, general business and
economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor industry;
market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and non-driver
products developed by the Company; demand for end-use applications
products; reliance on a small group of principal customers; the
uncertainty of continued success in technological innovations; our
ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; pricing
pressures including declines in average selling prices; changes in
customer order patterns; changes in estimated full-year effective
tax rate; shortages in supply of key components; changes in
environmental laws and regulations; exchange rate fluctuations;
regulatory approvals for further investments in our subsidiaries;
our ability to collect accounts receivable and manage inventory;
the uncertainty of success in our Taiwan listing plan which is
still under review by Taiwan regulatory authorities and subject to
change due to, among other things, changes in either Taiwan or U.S.
authorities' policies and Taiwan regulatory authorities' acceptance
of the Company's Taiwan listing application and other risks
described from time to time in the Company's SEC filings, including
those risks identified in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in
its Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2010 filed with the
SEC on May 20, 2011, as may be amended
CONTACT: Company
Himax Technologies, Inc.
Jackie Chang, CFO
Tel: 886-2-2370-3999 Ext.22300
Fax: 886-2-2314-0877
Email: jackie_chang@himax.com.tw
www.himax.com.tw.
Investor Relations
MZ North America
John Mattio, SVP
Tel: +1-212-301-7130
Email: john.mattio@hcinternational.net
www.mz-ir.com
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