Hou Bo-yi

Hou Bo-yi is a Taiwanese businessman, chairman of Universal Cement Corporation Universal Cement CorporationUniversal Cement Corporation is a Taiwanese cement and building materials company founded in 1960 under the leadership of Tainan Gang founder Hou Yu-li and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 1971 (code 1104). It makes cement, ready-mixed concrete and gypsum board, and its subsidiary Uneo works on pressure-sensing technology. Its chairman is Hou Bo-yi and its president is Hou Chih-yuan.Open the full entry and the eldest grandson of Tainan Gang founder Hou Yu-li Hou Yu-liHou Yu-li was a Taiwanese entrepreneur and a founding figure of the Tainan Gang. Born in Beimen, Tainan, he started as a cloth-shop apprentice, founded the Hsin Fu Hsing cloth business and went on to help found Tainan Spinning and Universal Cement, backing figures such as Wu Hsiu-chi and Kao Ching-yuan; Tainan Gang companies include Uni-President and Prince Housing. He was paired with Wang Yung-ching as “Wang in the north, Hou in the south.”Open the full entry. He took control of the company’s management in 2008, serving as both chairman and president, and brought his sons Hou Chih-sheng Hou Chih-shengHou Chih-sheng (Johnson Hou) is a Taiwanese engineer and businessman with a PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is vice chairman and chief executive of Universal Cement Corporation and president of its subsidiary Uneo, a fourth-generation member of the Tainan Gang’s Hou family and the elder son of Hou Bo-yi. His LinkedIn profile lists him as chief executive officer of the pressure-sensing company Tekscan since November 2025.Open the full entry and Hou Chih-yuan Hou Chih-yuanHou Chih-yuan (Jack Chih-Yuan Hou) is a Taiwanese businessman and the president of Universal Cement Corporation, a fourth-generation member of the Tainan Gang’s Hou family and the younger son of Hou Bo-yi. A week after finishing a master’s degree in East Asian studies at Harvard University in 2008, he joined Universal Cement at 24 as a vice president in charge of sales, later becoming chief operating officer and then president.Open the full entry into the business. His wife, Su Chin-chien, is a cousin of Jensen Huang Jensen HuangJensen Huang is a co-founder of NVIDIA who served as its president, chief executive officer, and a director from the company’s founding in 1993 until he resigned from those positions in November 2026. He has a background in electrical engineering education and the semiconductor industry, and under his leadership NVIDIA’s business expanded from graphics chips to GPU general-purpose computing, artificial intelligence, and data center computing platforms.Open the full entry.

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Early Life: Hou Yu-li’s Eldest Grandson

Hou Bo-yi is the eldest grandson of Hou Yu-li, a founding figure of the Tainan Gang. He recalls that his grandfather especially liked to take him to watch spirit mediums, and describes him as practical and wholly focused on whatever he was looking at.⁠[1]

2008Taking Control of Universal Cement

Business Today wrote in 2013 that Hou Bo-yi, watching Taiwan Cement and Asia Cement grow while the company his grandfather founded in 1960 stayed small, took control of Universal Cement’s management in 2008 despite criticism that he was splitting the family and the Tainan Gang, serving as both chairman and president. He then brought in his elder son, Hou Chih-sheng, from the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and his younger son, Hou Chih-yuan, just graduated from Harvard University Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry, to handle management and the electronics business and sales respectively.⁠[2]

Father and sons restructured the staff, disposed of the mainland plants and expanded the gypsum board business; Hou Chih-yuan said earnings per share went from a loss of NT$1 to a profit of NT$1. Hou Bo-yi also became chairman of the subsidiary Uneo but left its running to his sons while keeping close control of finances.⁠[2]

Current Role: Chairman of Universal Cement

Company registration records list Hou Bo-yi as chairman and legal representative of Universal Cement, Hou Chih-sheng as vice chairman and Hou Chih-yuan as director and president.⁠[3]

Family Ties

In June 2023 the Liberty Times summarized a family chart of Jensen Huang compiled by veteran journalist Wu Chia-chin: Huang’s mother, Lo Tsai-hsiu, and Lisa Su Lisa SuLisa Su is a semiconductor engineer and business executive who serves as Chair and CEO of AMD. She earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale. After joining AMD in 2012, she became CEO in 2014, led the company’s growth in high-performance computing, data centers, and artificial intelligence, and also became Chair in 2022.Open the full entry’s maternal grandfather, Lo Po-mu, are siblings; Su Chin-chien, the daughter of Huang’s third maternal aunt, Lo Sui-liu, married Hou Bo-yi, the eldest grandson of Hou Yu-li and chairman of Universal Cement, which makes the Hou family’s fourth generation, Hou Chih-sheng and Hou Chih-yuan, Huang’s first cousins once removed.⁠[4]

Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts

Universal Cement Corporation: Official website: http://www.ucctw.com/ (opens in a new window) (as listed in its company registration).⁠[3]