In May 1998, Joseph Liu was appointed President of Vishay/LPSC and Vice President, Far East Operations for the Company, the former position in which he served until March 2000, when Vishay agreed to sell its 65% interest in the Vishay/LPSC joint venture to The Lite-On Group, the 35% owner of the joint venture. Mr. Liu continues to serve as the Company's Senior Vice-President, Operations. Mr. Liu previously served as Vice President, Operations of the Company from 1994 to 1998 and Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Liu was also the Company's Vice-President, Administration from 1990 to 1994. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Liu held various management positions with TI Dallas, since 1971, including Planning Manager, Financial Planning Manager, Treasury Manager, Cost Accounting Manager and General Accounting Manager with TI Taiwan, Ltd. in Taipei; from 1981 to 1986 as Controller with TI Asia in Singapore and Hong Kong; from 1986 to 1989 as Financial Planning Manager, TI Latin America Division (for TI Argentina, TI Brazil and TI Mexico) in Dallas; and from 1989 to 1990 as Chief Coordinator of Strategic Business Systems for TI Asia Pacific Division in Dallas. Mr. Liu is also President and a director of Diodes-China and Diodes-Shanghai, and is President of Diodes-FabTech. |