Source: Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2025 Emily Hong Chair and Chief Strategy Officer, Wiwynn Taiwan Emily Hong is the architect behind the Taipei-based Wiwynn’s rise in the AI server industry. While an executive at Taiwan’s electronics maker Wistron, Hong foresaw the shift from on-site IT systems to cloud infrastructure, requiring a new generation of equipment. In 2012, she helped launch Wiwynn, then a subsidiary of Wistron, to produce servers for cloud service providers. That early bet...

Source: Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2025 Margaret Kao Chairman and CEO, Marketech International Taiwan Within a decade of her former employer spinning off United Microelectronics Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Margaret Kao launched Marketech International to make the specialized materials and equipment needed for their chipmaking factories. Kao says she had been looking for a “breakthrough” from her job as a section head at Industrial Technology Research...