Robert T. Huang

Robert T. Huang is a Taiwanese-American executive who was the founder of Synnex Corporation and was chairman of the board until retirement in June 2010.^[1] He was born in Taiwan in 1945.^[2]

Career[]

Huang attended Kyushu University in Japan, where he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, before going to the University of Rochester. He received M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and statistics from that university, with a third M.S. in management science from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

After working as the headquarters sales manager for Advanced Micro Devices, Huang founded Synnex Corporation in 1980. For almost thirty years, until December 2008, he was the company's president and co-chief executive officer. Thereafter, he was elected chairman of the board and was a member of the executive committee of the board of directors until June 2010. After leaving the board, he continued to work with Synnex as leader of SB Pacific Corporation, a joint venture.^[1]

Compensation[]

While co-CEO of Synnex Corporation in 2008, Huang was paid $2,200,000, which included a base salary of $400,000 and a cash bonus of $1,800,000.^[3]

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