Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040212
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 2012, and was its chairman of its board of directors from 2006 to 2012. Mr. Black served as a director and Chairman of the audit committee of Alliance Fiber Optics Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFOP) from 2002 until its acquisition by Corning in 2016. He serves as a director of TREX Enterprises, Inc., a defense technology company, a position he has held since 2000, and serves as director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hamillroad Software Ltd., a supplier of imaging software to the printing and packaging industries since January 2023. Mr. Black has served as trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1990, and became its Vice Chairman in 2006, and Trustee Emeritus since 2012. He has served as a trustee of the American Indian College Fund, Beloit College, and Bard College. At the University of Chicago, he serves on the Board of Governors of the University’s Smart Museum of Art and previously served on the Dean’s Council of the Physical Sciences Division. Mr. Black received a B.S. in Engineering from Texas A&M University, an MBA from Harvard University, and an honorary Ph.D. from Beloit College. The Board believes that Mr. Black is qualified to serve as a director based on his extensive business and financial management and leadership experience, and his service on other private company and publicly held company’s boards of directors as both a chief executive officer and chairman of the audit committee. He brings to the Board expertise in the fields of general management, accounting, and internal controls. Min-Chu (Mike) Chen, Ph.D. has been a partner and member of the board of directors of EverRich Capital Inc., a financial consulting company, since 2001. Since May 2010, he has served as executive director of C&C International Services, Inc., a petrochemical equipment services and marketing company. Dr. Chen is the co-founder and has served as executive director of EABO Information Technology (Shanghai), Co. Ltd., an IIoT technology platform company, since 2018. Dr. Chen is the co-founder and has served as a director of KidTech, Inc., a Houston based personalized healthcare solution provider for children, since May 2023. From March 1994 to June 2022, Dr. Chen served as a board member of PCTEL, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCTI). From September