CHER WANG (B.A. ’82, Political Economy of Industrial Societies) has established a number of successful IT-related businesses, including VIA Technologies, Inc. in 1987 and HTC Corp. in 1997, and is currently chairwoman and CEO of HTC, a leading innovator of smartphones and virtual reality. Her business achievements have been widely acclaimed in major international media; in 2011, she was named ‘the most powerful woman in wireless’ by Forbes, and she has featured among Fast Company magazine’s 'most influential women’ and Fortune’s 'most powerful women’ lists over the last decade.