Qualification of Independent Directors

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1、Method of Nomination and Election
 
The Company's Articles of Incorporation stipulate that the Company's Board of Directors be made up of seven to eleven members, of which the number of Independent Directors shall not be less than three. The nomination system shall be adopted and the candidates shall be elected at the shareholders' meeting in accordance with regulations. The Independent Directors' professional qualifications, shareholding and part-time restrictions, determination of independence, nomination and selection methods, and other matters of compliance shall be subject to the relevant regulations of the competent securities authorities.
A total of seven candidates, including three Independent Directors, shall be nominated for the 9th appointed Board of Directors of the Company, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 192-1 of the Company Law, the nomination method for the Directors shall be stated in the notice of the general meeting of shareholders. Shareholders who hold more than one-hundredth of the total number of shares can submit a list of Director candidates to the company in writing, and the number of nominees shall not exceed the number of directors to be selected.
 
2、Nomination Process
 
During the nomination of Director candidates, no list of candidates for Independent Directors was submitted by shareholders holding more than one percent of the shares. The Board of Directors then nominated, reviewed, and approved of Mr. Wei-ta PAN, Ms. Huey-jen SU, and Ms. Wen-ling MA as candidates for the 9th Independent Director positions at the 4th meetings of the 8th appointed Board of Directors in 2026.
 
3、Candidate Information
 
Number Name Education Positions Held Concurrently Key Previous Positions
1.  Wei-ta PAN Juris Doctor (J.D.), University of Nebraska

 

˙Independent Director, SinoPac Holdings

˙Independent Director, CyCraft Technology Corporation (Cayman)

˙Chair Professor, Department of Law, Soochow University

˙President, Red Cross Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

˙Director, Modern Women's Foundation

˙Director, ESG World Citizen Digital Governance Foundationof Taichung City

˙Independent Director, China Life

˙Independent Director, Quanta Computer

˙Independent Director, Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation

˙President, Soochow University

˙Dean of School of Law, Chairperson of the Department of Law & Professor, Department of Law, Soochow University

˙Arbitrator, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei

˙Member, Legal Affairs Committee, Public Construction Commission, Executive Yuan

˙Member, Administrative Appeal Review Committee, Ministry of Justice

 

2. Huey-jen SU Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Harvard University

˙Independent Director, SinoPac Holdings

˙Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health & Institute of Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University

˙Independent Director, Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

˙Independent Director, E Ink Holdings Inc.

˙Independent Director, Macronix International Co., Ltd.

˙Independent Director, Diodes, Inc

˙Chairperson, NCKU Research & Development Foundation

˙Director, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship

 

˙President, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

˙Chairperson, Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan

˙Chairperson, Presidents' Forum of Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan Universities

˙Advisor, International Advisory Board, Tohoku Forum for Creativity

˙Member, Standing Committee, Future Earth Committee, Academia Sinica, Taipei

˙President, Academia-Industry Consortium For Southern Taiwan Science Park

˙Member, National Climate Change Committee, Office of the President Republic of China

3. Wen-ling MA  

Management Science,

National Chiao Tung University

˙Independent Director, SinoPac Holdings

˙Independent Director, Bank SinoPac

˙CEO, Nomura Asset Management, Taiwan

˙General Manager, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Taiwan

˙Head of Distribution, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Taiwan

˙Managing Director and General Manager of Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank, Taiwan

˙Executive Director and Head of Investment Products and Services, UBS Taiwan

˙Head of Wealth Management, HSBC Taiwan

˙Head of Investment & Insurance, HSBC Taiwan

˙Manager, Investment Strategies Development, Consumer Banking, Citibank Taiwan

 
4、Election Results
 
Title Elected person
Independent Director Wei-ta PAN
Independent Director Huey-jen SU
Independent Director Wen-ling MA