User:CJ86GJI4/Jonney Shih

Career
In 1989, Jonney Shih provided funding to four engineers to build ASUS. Mr. Shih began his current role as the Chairman in 1993, and until 2007 he also served as the Chief Executive Officer.

As Chairman, Mr. Shih guides the company’s vision, corporate culture, and innovation strategies. Under his leadership, ASUS has become an internationally recognized technology leader that ranks No. 1 in worldwide sales of motherboards and No. 3 in consumer notebooks. For the last several years, Fortune magazine has named ASUS as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Since 2013, ASUS has been ranked annually by Interbrand as the most valuable international brand from Taiwan.

Mr. Shih is well known for his passion and commitment to innovation, and his relentless pursuit of perfection has helped to commercialize a generation of technology for consumers around the world. In 2006, he led the development of the revolutionary ASUS Eee PC, a compact, cost-effective device that ignited the mobile computing era and marked the beginning of a new category of PCs that became known as netbooks.

In 2008, Mr. Shih guided the separation of the ASUS Original Equipment Manufacturing and Original Design Manufacturing businesses — a strategic decision that proved vital in developing global recognition for the ASUS brand. In 2014, he spearheaded the development of the first ZenFone — the flagship ASUS smartphone series that combines refined aesthetics and functionality to deliver empowering luxury. Within just two years of the release of ZenFone, ASUS became a trendsetting global smartphone brand.

In 2016, Mr. Shih introduced the first ASUS home robot, Zenbo, marking an important milestone in his ambitious long-term vision of enabling robotic computing for every household, while transforming ASUS into a technology leader for the next industry paradigm shift.

More recently, Mr. Shih has initiated a complete corporate transformation known as Wiser Together, encouraging everyone in the ASUS family to evolve and achieve a new level of idea meritocracy that will enable ASUS to grow and prosper from an abundance of creative and meaningful inputs.

In 2019, ASUS celebrated 30 years of engineering innovation and again took the industry by storm with the release of the groundbreaking ZenFone 6 that features a state-of-the-art flip camera system, ZenBook Pro Duo with dual 4K screens that redefine laptop capabilities, and the incredible ROG Phone II that’s widely considered the world’s greatest gaming phone for its transformative features exemplifying the boundless creativity and relentless engineering spirit of ASUS.

Mr. Shih believes that people are the most important asset of any company, and he credits the success of ASUS to its dedicated workforce and corporate culture. By sharing his own passion for technology, he encourages and inspires ASUS employees to strive for excellence in their search for incredible innovations that will create the most ubiquitous, intelligent, heartfelt, and joyful smart life for everyone.

Award & Recognition
1986-Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs

1987-Top 10 Outstanding Technology Talents

1990-Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World   Junior Chamber International Taiwan

1998-The Stars of Asia   BusinessWeek Magazine

1999-The Stars of Asia   BusinessWeek Magazine

2006-Best Entrepreneur Award   China Times Group, DHL Taiwan

2006-Outstanding Technology Management Award   Chinese Society for Management of Technology

2009-Top Five Most Influential People in Mobile   Laptop Magazine

2009-Most Influential People in Technology   T3

2010-Most Creative People in Business   Fast Company

2011-Most Influential People in Mobile   Laptop Magazine

2011-Heroes of Philanthropy    Forbes

2011-Pan Wen Yuan Lifetime Achievement Award

2012-Commissioned as Laureate   Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan

2015-Global Leadership Award for Distinguished Chinese Business Leader Global Views, Commonwealth Publishing Group 2017-Lifetime Achievement T3 Magazine

Reference

 * Sweetly Disruptive Technology (Forbes, 2008.11.05)
 * The man behind the netbook craze (FORTUNE, 2009.11.20)
 * Five Jaw-Dropping Asus Designs (Forbes, 2010.01.09)
 * MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE 2010 - Jonney Shih (FAST COMPANY, 2010)
 * How to build your own $23 billion company (FORTUNE, 2010.03.29)
 * How tech giant Asus is staying competitive (CNBC, 2013.10.04)
 * The past, present and future of ASUS, according to its chairman (engadget, 2015.08.16)
 * ASUS' $599 home robot is smarter than it looks (engadget, 2016.06.02)
 * Asus' Jonney Shih on product design and artificial intelligence (COMPUTERWORLD, 2016.06.09)
 * 'Design thinking' can bring a paradigm shift, says Asus chief (NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW, 2016.11.09)
 * Jonney Shih of Asus wants to put a robot in your home (T3, 2017.09.27)