Sharp's chairman and CEO, Tai Jeng Wu, announced in a message to employees that he intends to retire at a shareholders' meeting scheduled for June next year.
Chairman and CEO Tai Jeng Wu sent a message to employees before Sharp became a subsidiary of Taiwan's Hong Hai Precision Industry and celebrated its fifth year on the 13th.
In this, Mr. Dai said, "We are currently looking for the next CEO who can entrust Sharp's future from inside and outside the company, and we would like to decide on a successor by next year's general meeting of shareholders." He announced his intention to retire at the general meeting.
On top of that, he says, "It is my mission to firmly achieve the performance targets for 2021, which is the last year, and to connect the baton to the next generation, and I am prepared to do it at all costs."
Mr. Dai was appointed president when Hon Hai Precision Industry acquired Sharp, which had been suffering from poor management, in 2016, and recovered its business performance by expanding sales channels and reducing costs, and returned to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. I proceeded.