Cher Wang
“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
About Her
Ethnicity: Taiwanese
Birthday: September 14, 1958
Born in: Taipei, Tawan
“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
Ethnicity: Taiwanese
Birthday: September 14, 1958
Born in: Taipei, Tawan
Cher Wang is a Taiwanese entrepreneur and philanthropist born in Taipei, Taiwan. As co-founder and chairperson (since 2007) of HTC Corporation (which manufactured one out of every six smartphones sold in the United States) and integrated chipset maker VIA Technologies. She is considered one of the most powerful and successful women in technology. Wang's father was Wang Yung-ching, founder of the plastics and petrochemicals conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group and one of the wealthiest individuals in Taiwan before his death in 2008. As of 2014, she is listed as the 54th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She joined First International Computer (FIC) in 1982. Wang and others founded VIA in 1987 and HTC in 1997. In May 2011, Forbes ranked her with husband Wen Chi Chen as the wealthiest person in Taiwan, with a net worth of US$8.8 billion. In August 2012, Wang was named #56 on Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. As of 2014, she is listed as the 54th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
In 2005 Cher Wang was selected as an Innovator by Stars of Asia and also named as one of the ten executives in Asia. Besides, Wang is also an industry partner at the World Economic Forum. Also in 2010 Cher Wang co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum in order to identify capacity-building policy recommendations to enhance opportunities for women in business and to hold outreach activities within APEC economics. In this year, Cher Wang was also ranked at the eighth place of The entrepreneurs who are most admired by the entrepreneurs. This is conducted by the CommonWealth Magazine in Taiwan.
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