Advisory Board

Dr Mike Chang
Chairman, Amperex Technology Ltd
Company website: https://www.atlbattery.com/en/index.html

Dr. Mike Chang has since 2009 been the Chairman of Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL) –  the company he co-founded in 1999 for lithium polymer battery, a technology field which he was involved when he began his career with Ford Motor in the 70’s.

Dr. Chang has more than 30 years of experience in the R&D and manufacture of the digital storage industries. He worked in IBM San Jose as Manager for the design, testing and application of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) magnetic recording head for 11 years. In 1989, he joined Conner Peripheral, served the company for 6 years, and rose to the VP holding corporate responsibilities for all Conner’s advanced research in mass HDD storage systems and technology.

Dr. Chang joined SAE Magnetics H.K. Ltd. (SAE) in 1994 and played active roles in developing the recording head technologies of the company. He then served the President and CEO of Headway Technologies which SAE successfully acquired in 2000 as its arm for wafer fabrication and recording head research center in the US. Mike was appointed SAE’s EVP of engineering in 2003 and then the Vice Chairman responsible for exploratory technologies and new business development of the company.

Dr. Chang received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a BSEE degree from the National Taiwan University.