CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/07/09/msi_ceo_chiang_death/
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Charles Chiang was found outside MSI's offices in the Zhonghe District after he plummeted from the seventh floor of the building. How and why he fell is under a police investigation though it's thought "external intervention," was not a factor, [1]local news reports .
Chiang's body was found by employees at around 1pm on July 7, local time, after they heard the sound of the fall and rushed to his aid. He was found unresponsive, and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"General Manager and Executive Mr Changjiang Shengchang passed away earlier due to personal health factors," MSI's spokespeople [2]told local media TVBS.
"He has worked in the company for more than 20 years and has made outstanding contributions to the company, and is loved by employees. All colleagues felt deeply saddened, and mourned."
Chiang, 56, took over as the CEO and general manager of MSI in January 2019. His previous titles included vice president of engineering and executive veep of business products. He held a master's degree from National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Under Chiang's leadership, Micro-Star International's most recent financial numbers, the quarter to March 31, 2020, showed net income down four per cent year-on-year to NT$1.25bn ($43m), and revenues flat at NT$28.5bn ($968m), as it, along withe the rest of the industry, weathered the growing coronavirus storm. While MSI saw its stock take a hit in March, the manufacturer's share price has since recovered. ®
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[1] https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/3220894
[2] https://today.line.me/TW/article/KzD22G
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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Some mention was made of health problems. There are certain things that very few people would dare to face.
"General Manager and Executive Mr Changjiang Shengchang, passed away earlier due to personal health factors,"
Poor sod, but the fall from the seventh floor was both personal and a health issue so accurate if incomplete explanations.. Now what?
Now we wait to see if a Japanese style accountancy scandal hits MSI
"due to personal health factors"
Is this not the most egregious PR output you've ever seen?
What's next, "a change in company direction" for filing for bankruptcy?
Anyone know the location of their resident BOFH and PFY at the time?
I'm sure they were in their right place ..... right behind him!
Life Imitating Art
Anyone getting a Denholm Reynholm vibe here?
Sad.
If he could've talked to someone, he might have realised there were other ways out.
As an aside, I quite like MSI's motherboard offerings, but I'm coming to strongly dislike their "Dragon" software. It seems massively bloated for what it does, and I see bits of it high up my list of active processes far too often for my liking.
Re: Sad.
Everything is bloated these days, for some reason my Corsair mouse requires a piece of software that consumes 1/3 of a cpu core at all times and needs to hammer WMI.
"All colleagues felt deeply saddened, and mourned."
That is an unfortunate miss-translation.
My MSI laptop is deeply saddened.
:-(
Wow. O.O My condolences to the family.
Could the known pressures of business life in Asia have any factor in this?