Dato’ KS Pua

CEO, Phison Electronics Corporation

KS Pua is the Founder and CEO of Phison Electronics. He was born in a farming community Sekinchan in Selangor, Malaysia in 1974. At the age of 19, went to Taiwan with just US$4,000 in his pocket. With no relatives to help him, his only dream was to study hard, graduated from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997 and earned Master’s from NCTU in 1999. Mr. Pua and his four friends founded Phison Electronics Corp. in Taiwan. He designed and produced the world’s first single chip USB flash controller with other founders. Under his lead, the company has become a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Pua is a successful high-teck entrepreneur and the recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian Awards , and received Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award, Outstanding Young Manager Award and The President Award of National Management Excellence Award from the Government. He was elected as Fellow of Chinese Society for Management Of Technology in 2009. In 2022, Phison reached sale revenue of US$2.03 billion and has become the largest independent NAND controller and NAND storage solution provider globally, and was named 65th in U.S magazine Bloomberg Businessweek’s Tech 100 in year of 2010. From 2015 to present, production value of Phison were ranked top 4 of IC Design Houses in Taiwan IC design industry.