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
Chunk 13
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 Inc., a real estate development and investment company. Since 2014, he has served as President of Stonemetal Capital, LLC, an equity financial company and as President of Pearl Yeh Charitable Foundation LLC, a charitable foundation focused on cultural exchange and education programs. He served as the Vice Chairman of Central Bancorp, Inc. (the holding company of United Central Bank, now Hanmi Bank) from 1997 to 2014. He served as an Advisor of Hanmi Bank for the Texas region from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Yeh received a B.S. from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and a M.S. from University of Houston — Clear Lake. The Board believes that Mr. Yeh is qualified to serve as a director based on his business and financial management and leadership experience, as well as his extensive knowledge of the Company and our industry from his years of service on our Board. Cynthia (Cindy) DeLaney has served as the Global Fuel Oil commodity trading manager for Shell Trading since January 2014. In this role, she manages Shell’s Global Fuel Oil Trading activities with primary trading offices in Singapore, Rotterdam, and Houston, covering Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and other offices in cities such as Calgary, Dubai, and Moscow. For the nine years prior, from 2005 to 2013, she managed the Americas Fuel Oil Trading team. Before her position as the Americas Trading Manager, Ms. DeLaney was a trader in fuel oil, VGO, gasoline and gasoline components from 1999 to 2005. She has over 25 years’ experience as a trader and in technical aspects of the petrochemical/refining industry. In her role as the Global Trading Manager of Fuel Oil, Ms. DeLaney has increased the profitability of Shell’s global fuel oil trading 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS business which grew steadily over her tenure. Since October 2016, Ms. DeLaney has served as a director and Vice President of Shell Trading US Company (STUSCo). She is also a member of the Executive group of the Houston Chapter of the Women’s Energy Network (WEN) which works to promote and develop women’s careers in Energy and STEM fields. Ms. DeLaney started her working career in 1991 as an Electrical Engineer at Arco Chemical Company (now Lyondell) in Houston. She moved from technical to commercial activities at Arco, eventually trading MTBE and gasoline components from Arco’s