Telecom Lead Asia: Chunghwa Telecom has appointed Yen-Sung Lee as chairman and CEO.
Lee replaces Shyue-Ching Lu who resigned as chairman and CEO on April 1, 2013 due to personal reasons.
In addition, Mu-Piao Shih was appointed president of the company, succeeding Lee.
Yen-Sung Lee previously served as the president of Chunghwa Telecom since his appointment in 2012 and has worked at Chunghwa Telecom for 39 years.
Prior to becoming president, he served as the senior executive vice president in charge of the marketing and IT departments. Lee has been instrumental in the company’s ICT & cloud business development over the past several years with his background in information and data engineering.
Mu-Piao Shih has been at Chunghwa for 34 years and was most recently the company’s senior executive vice president in charge of the corporate planning department which oversees the company’s strategic planning and implementation, including the overall network deployment.
Prior to that, he was the president of the company’s mobile business group where he had worked for over 14 years in various roles.
