Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036344
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 Chairman of our Board from May 2000 through September 2002, and again from June 2008 through October 2009. Since May 2015, Dr. Lin has served on the University of Missouri’s Chancellor’s Advisory Group and since November 2016 he has served as a chair on the University of Missouri’s Industrial Advisory Board for the College of Engineering. Dr. Lin also served as a research associate professor from 1998 to 2000 and as a senior research scientist from

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1994 to 1998 at the University of Houston. Dr. Lin received a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Missouri — Columbia. The Board believes that Dr. Lin is qualified to serve as a director based on his extensive background in business management, technological expertise, his role as founder, President and Chief Executive Officer and his deep knowledge in our industry from years of service on our Board. Richard B. Black has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ECRM, Incorporated, a worldwide supplier of laser-based imaging equipment, from 1983 until the company was acquired by Eastman KODAK Corp. in 2021. From 2014 to 2017, he also served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of CRON-ECRM LLC, a worldwide supplier of laser-based imaging equipment. Beginning in 1989, Mr. Black was a director of Oak Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of semi-conductors for optical storage and laser printers, and then became President in 1998 and vice chairman of the board of directors in 1999 until its merger with Zoran, Inc. in 2003. Mr. Black previously served as President and CEO of AM International from 1980 to 1982. He served as a Division President of Maremont Corporation, a manufacturer of auto parts and textile machinery, from 1967 to 1972, then as Maremont’s Executive Vice President and then President and CEO from 1972 to 1979. When Maremont was acquired by Alusuisse in 1979, he served as President and CEO of Alusuisse of America until 1981. He served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of GSI Group, a manufacturer of lasers, laser systems, semi-conductor equipment, from 1998 to 2012, and was its chairman