David W. Su is corporate senior vice president and general counsel of MediaTek, Inc., in Taiwan. He is in charge of MediaTek’s legal and intellectual property functions. Prior to joining MediaTek, Mr. Su was a senior director in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC). At TSMC, he led several legal divisions, including intellectual property and business transactions. Before he began a career as a corporate counsel, he was in private practice at Taiwan’s largest law firm, Lee & Li, Attorneys-at-Law, as a partner specializing in litigation and intellectual property laws.

Mr. Su is currently the president of the Taiwan Chapter of Licensing Executives Association (LES), an organization formed by intellectual property licensing professionals to promote IP licensing and technology commercialization globally. He is also a board member of the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Association (APIPA) and the Cornerstone Intellectual Property Foundation.

Mr. Su received his LLB from National Taiwan University, LLM from Harvard Law School, and an SJD from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He was an adjunct associate professor at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University and National Tsing Hua University, where he taught contracts and trade secrets law.