Mr. Lai was promoted from TSMC North America to GUC in 2003 when TSMC became the major shareholder of GUC. From 1992 to 2003, Jim served various positions at TSMC North America, including director of emerging account, director of design services and business manager responsible for the ASIC business unit.

Prior to TSMC, Mr. Lai co-founded ASICtronics, one of the earliest design service companies to provide ASIC design consultation and libraries. Prior to ASICtronics, Mr. Lai worked at Toshiba America, Knights Technology and LSI Logic in various engineering positions in ASIC and CAD groups.

Mr. Lai received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1981.