Robert T. Huang is a

Taiwanese-American Taiwanese Americans () are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of Cali ...

executive who was the founder of Synnex Corporation and was chairman of the board until retirement in June 2010. He was born in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

in 1945.

Career

Huang attended

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu. It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Design ...

in Japan, where he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, before going to the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of ...

. He received

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degrees in electrical engineering and statistics from that university, with a third

in management science from the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs ...

. After working as the headquarters sales manager for

Advanced Micro Devices Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufact ...

, 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.

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 $1,800,000.2008 CEO Compensation for Robert T. Huang
''Equilar''

References

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