Choon-Leong LOU (Ph.D.) has served as CEO since founding STAr in 2000. He is responsible for charting overall strategies and R&D within the group. Dr. Lou was honored with the 2001 Outstanding Enterprise Leadership of the Republic of China Award from the MOE Taiwan and was also awarded with the Young Business Start-up Award 2003 by Shell Live-WIRE in Singapore.

Dr. LOU holds B. Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore, respectively. He has also obtained EMBA degree from Golden Gate University.

Yu-Ming CHIEN is the co-founder and serves as President of Test & Measurement Business Unit since founding STAr in 2000. He is responsible for the sales and engineering supporting of parametric and reliability test systems.

Mr. CHIEH obtained a Bachelor degree (Control Engineering) and a Master degree (Electronic Engineering) from National Chiao Tung University.

Paul CHEN joined our group in 2002 and now serves as President of Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Business Unit. He is responsible for the business development, sales and technical support of all ATE related products within the group.

Mr. CHEN graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and obtained a MBA degree from National Chengchi University.

Lydia CHENG joins STAr in 2004 and currently serves as the Financial Controller of STAr Technologies. She oversees accounting, financial reporting and the implementation and monitoring of internal controls.

Ms. CHENG holds a Bachelor degree in Accounting from Tunghai University.

Byong-Sun CHOI joins STAr Korea as sales manager in 2002 and currently serves as General Manager of Korea, overseeing the development of STAr Korea subsidiary.

Mr. CHOI graduated from KookMin University with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Dan Hicks was Principal Designer and Engineering Manager at STAr-Edge (Formerly STAr-KVD) for the last 18 years, has been instrumental in development of new instruments and architectures and management of the group's Research and Development.

Mr. HICKS earned his education with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Gonzaga University, followed up with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCSD (University of California – San Diego).

Wei LIU joined STAr Singapore in 2010 as a project manager. With his excellent leadership, he was assigned to establish STAr subsidiary in People's Republic of China in 2011. He currently serves as Deputy General Manager of STAr Wuhan with charter to lead the R&D, sales and service support teams in China.

Mr. LIU received Ph. D. in Mechanical Enginnering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and obtained B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Albert Ninalga joined STAr-Edge in February 2019. With his many years of his Senior Executive experienced and accomplishments in all the facets of the top Probe Card companies worldwide he was assigned to establish Business Development and Sales in STAr-Edeg San Jose, CA.

 

Mr. NINALGA obtained his Bachelor Science Deggree in Electronics Engineering from Lyceum of Philippines University and Minor, Global Business Leadership and Innovation in San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

Prior to joining STAr in 2019 as GM/VP responsible for STAr-Quest in Singapore, Dr Lam was VP of Product, Test Development and Failure Analysis with GlobalFoundries for 19 years and brought with him a wealth of experience in Wafer Fabrication, Design and Test Engineering. Dr. Lam has been the Chairman of SEMI Singapore Test and Product Committee since 2009 and he is also the Adjunct Professor with National University of Singapore.