Jonathan H. Chou

Biography

  Mr. Jonathan H. Chou, born in 1964, was appointed as our Independent Non-executive Director on 3 September 2010. Mr. Chou has served as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Kulicke&Soffa Industries, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company (NASDAQ: KLIC) since December 2010. After successful completion of the move of Kulicke&Soffa's Global Corporate Headquarters from the U.S. to Singapore, he led a complex business tax restructuring project to improve operating efficiency and reduce the company's effective tax rate during a record setting fiscal year of 2011. Effective October 1, 2012, Mr. Chou's overall responsibilities expanded to include Global Information Technology. Mr. Chou has over 20 years of professional experience largely with Fortune 500 companies. He was the Asia Pacific Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions of Honeywell International, where he managed the company's M&A activities in the region from Shanghai, China. Prior to Honeywell, he was the Asia Chief Financial Officer of Tyco ADT, the Fire & Security segment of Tyco International, where he led initiatives to improve operating efficiency and improvement of corporate governance to meet Sarbanes-Oxley attestation. Mr. Chou served as Asia/Pacific Regional Chief Financial Officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Before that, he held the position of Managing Director of Treasury & Customer Finance for Asia Pacific and China regions, with a portfolio of over $1.4 billion of vendor financing commitments. Prior to joining K&S, Mr. Chou was the Chief Financial Officer of a private equity portfolio company, where he was instrumental in managing the audit and listing process. In April 2009, he was awarded "China's Top Ten CFOs of 2008" by CFO World Magazine in recognition of his leadership role for navigating through the global financial crisis. Mr. Chou received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1988 and a master's degree in business administration from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 1999.  

Research Interest

  biomedical devices