Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. announced appointment of Chau-Young Lin as president. Name of the previous position holder: Shui-Yi Kuo, Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. Resume of the new position holder: President of the Company’s Information Technology Group. Effective date of the new appointment is July 7, 2023.

Reason for the change: The 4th extraordinary meeting of the 10th board held on 07 July 2023 approved the appointment of the president. President Lin holds a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and has extensive experience serving in various leadership positions in Chunghwa Telecom since 1987. President Lin assumed the role of President of Chunghwa Telecom's Information Technology Group in April 2022, while also serving as the Chairman of International Integrated System Inc. since 2020.

Prior to that, Mr. Lin was the President of Chunghwa Telecom's Data Communications Business Group from June 2020 to April 2022 and the Senior Executive Vice President of the Company's Administration Department from August 2019 to June 2020. He was also the President of the Company's Southern Taiwan Business Group from March 2018 to August 2019. President Lin helped Chunghwa Telecom become Taiwan's leading system integration service provider by leading Chunghwa's IT service team to design and accomplish the largest national IT system upgrade project, the National Tax Filing System for the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan.

He also led the Information Technology Group to develop cutting-edged technology and services in the areas of IDC, Cloud, AI, IoT and Cybersecurity, making Chunghwa Telecom the leading ICT service provider in Taiwan. President Lin also serves as the Chairman of International Integrated System, one of the subsidiaries of Chunghwa Telecom. Earlier this year, Mr. Lin set an example by leading the senior executives of the Information Technology Group to obtain professional certifications in cloud services, making cloud adoption a common language and belief within the organization to collectively drive the cloud service.

Since the end of last year ChatGPT and generative AI have gone viral, which further ignited Mr. Lin's passion for learning in the field of AI, which originally was sparked when doing his doctoral thesis over 20 years ago. In addition, he personally participated in the PoC development and implementation of generative AI services within the Information Technology Group, achieving a learning by doing approach. Mr. Lin will execute the business strategies of the Three Principles of Management, Three Fleets of Business, and Three Keys of Technologies led by Chairmen Shui-Yi Kuo.

He will also coordinate all branches and subsidiaries to strengthen the telecom network, enhance digital resilience, and ensure information security of the information systems while improving service quality. Mr. Lin also aims to replicate Taiwan's successful services, products and experiences of the Company's digital and net-zero transformation abroad, leveraging the synergies of group operations. In addition, he will continue to broadly build alliances and promote positive development of the industry ecosystem with partners in the field of innovative applications including cloud and AI, creating mutual benefit and common prosperity.

Looking forward, just as the three visions declared by Chairman Kuo for the Company when he took office: sustainability, digital empowerment and being company with market value far beyond trillion, President Lin will uphold this direction and exert every effort to fulfill the mission entrusted by Chairman to achieve the goal of surpassing a trillion-dollar market capitalization while continuing the sustainable development.