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Dr. Cliff Hou
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Dr. Cliff Hou

Title: SVP and Deputy Co-COO / CISO Company: TSMC Industry: Manufacturing
Cliff holds the positions of SVP, Deputy Co-COO and CISO at TSMC. As CISO, Cliff protects the intellectual property and operational technology of the world’ s largest semiconductor foundry amid aggressive global expansion. Such a task is successfully navigated by Cliff’ s experience in establishing the TSMC Open Innovation Platform, through which he integrates rigorous cybersecurity standards across the company’ s 2nm and advanced packaging supply chains to safeguard critical AI infrastructure.
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