Cher Wang
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HTC CEO Cher Wang shows new mobile phone motherboard at the World Economic Forum on January 23, 2008
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| Born | 14 September 1958 |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Citizenship |
 Republic of China
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| Education | UCBerkeley,1981 |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1997-present |
| Employer | HTC, VIA Technologies |
| Known for | Contributions to HTC and VIA; creating a fairly early model of smart phones in 1997 |
| Home town | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Net worth | US$1.1 billion |
| Spouse(s) | Chen Wen-Chi |
| Parent(s) |
Wang Yung-ching Jiao Yang |
| Relatives | Cherlin Wang |
| Awards | Forbes World's Billionaires list, 2010, 2011, 2012; Forbes World's Most Powerful Women list, 2012 |
Cher Wang (traditional Chinese: 王雪紅; simplified Chinese: 王雪红; pinyin: Wáng Xuěhóng; 15 September 1958) 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.
Wang studied abroad at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, California, and went on to receive her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
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. Oct. 2014, Cher Wang refused to accept the Final Award of the "HKIAC / A11022 arbitration" and appealed to the Hong Kong High Court ( Case No.:HCCT40 / 2014) before Judge Mimmie Chan. Wang asserted that the Award was contrary to public policy, but as evidence in court shown that VIA product- VT3421 anti-hack chip (also named asTF376), suspected in assisting the Chinese government of surveilling mobile devices of anti-communist individual and against Human Right. VIA executives Li Shaolun (Steven S. Lee) admitted in the proceedings thad VIA chips did have "back door" . Evidenced the United States former NSA employee Edward Joseph Snowden disclosed to the international media in Hong Kong around June ,2013. The US government secretly built a "PRISM” program which is a global network monitoring, surveillance in computers, mobile phones and networking devices which serious invades the privacy; Oliver Stone directed and was co-screenwriting with Kieran Fitzgerald made the Snowden Story into a 2016 American political thriller Movie :"Snowden storm". The Hong Kong HKIAC sentenced VIA with compensation . After hearing before the Justice Mimmie Chan, the High Court of Hong Kong, she believed the Award was in violation of Hong Kong's public order and morals. In June 2015 in She remised the case back to Arbitrator Anthony Neoh. The tribunal upheld the conviction in October 2015, VIA lost the case for millions of dollars and put out in VIA’s Annual Report.
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