VIA optronics AG announced that two of the company?s supervisory board members, Jerome Tan and Diosdado Banatao will resign effective as of the date of the AGM i.e. December 29, 2021. The Supervisory Board has conducted a criteria-based search and recruitment process to find candidates with skills and experience that complement existing Supervisory Board members and further support the Company?s strategy. The Company plans to nominate Arthur Tan from the Philippines and Shuji Aruga from Japan as Supervisory Board members. Arthur R. Tan has served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. since 2016 and concurrently as Chief Executive Officer and Group President since 2001. He is also the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PSi Technologies Inc. and Merlin Solar Technologies Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer of Speedy-Tech Electronics Ltd.; Chairman of the Board of Surface Technology International (STI) Ltd., Chairman of the Advisory Board of MT Technologies GmbH; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AC Motors and Senior Managing Director of the Ayala Corporation. He is also an Independent Board Member of Lyceum of the Philippines University, FEU Institute of Technology and SSI Group. He graduated with B.S. in Electronic Communications Engineering degree from Mapua Institute of Technology and attended post graduate programs at the University of Idaho, Singapore Institute of Management, IMD and Harvard Business School. Mr. Shuji Aruga is senior advisor of Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC and an independent member of the Board of Directors of Matsumoto Yamaga FC. Previously, he served in numerous senior positions at Japan Display Inc. (?JDI?), which is the Japanese display technology joint venture formed by the merger of liquid crystal display businesses of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi. These positions included Chief Business Officer, Board Member, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Advisor. Prior to joining JDI, Mr. Aruga served as the Division Senior General Manager of Sony Co. VP and Mobile Display Business Division, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Epson Imaging Device Co., Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Liquid Crystal Display, a department of Seiko Epson Co. He graduated with a Master?s degree in 1983 from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo, Japan.