Charles Liang - President, CEO and Founder As founder, president and CEO, Charles Liang sits at the helm of Supermicro Computer, Inc., a San Jose, Calif. company dedicated to designing high-end server and motherboard products. Since establishing Supermicro in 1993, Liang has worked relentlessly to build the company to its current position as an industry leader that offers the most extensive line of server solutions in the industry. Over the years, Supermicro has earned a solid reputation as the first-to-market leader and become the fastest-growing server company in the world. During his university years, Liang worked on high-tech projects and designed several outstanding products such as a microprocessor-based PH and ion analyzer. These designs provided Liang with a firm financial base by his senior year, which he used to further his studies and career. His interest in the field of medical expert systems brought Liang to the U.S. where he advanced his education by earning an MSEE degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. Liang’s studies at Arlington focused on Advanced Digital systems and he developed a working model for a medical expert system that diagnosed illnesses. Supermicro is now applying the same concept to an advanced generation of intelligent servers that will feature self-diagnosis and failure recovery capabilities. Liang went on to act as senior design engineer for Chips Technology, design manager at Mosel and president and chief design engineer at MCCI,. He then founded Supermicro and made an instant impact in the industry. With the company under a year old, the P54VL-PCI motherboard was used in 25% of the top Pentium PCs as rated by PC Magazine in 1994. Two years later, his P6DOF led the industry into the dual-processor based motherboard era. His reputation for being first to market was further established in 2000 as Supermicro shipped the S2QR6, a quad processor serverboard, to the channel. Liang’s innovative engineering philosophy and his focus on long-term success rather than short-term profits have been major factors contributing to Supermicro’s impressive growth rates, which have remained uninterrupted since its founding. Even during the tech downturn, Supermicro was able to sustain high annual growth while other companies were experiencing layoffs. Liang holds many coveted technology patents, some of which were awarded while he was still in university. Subsequent notable patents include a redundant cooling power supply technology (1998) and a method and architecture for monitoring the health of servers across data networks (2000). He has also applied for more than a dozen system architecture related patents. Many of these have been used to greatly enhance the design and structure of current server systems.