FST Management

Management criteria checks 2/4

FST's CEO is David Chuang, appointed in Jan 2025, has a tenure of less than a year. directly owns 13.74% of the company’s shares, worth $9.07M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 0.6 years and 0.8 years respectively.

Key information

David Chuang

Chief executive officer

US$137.1k

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	n/a
CEO tenure	less than a year
CEO ownership	13.7%
Management average tenure	less than a year
Board average tenure	less than a year

Recent management updates

Recent updates

There's Reason For Concern Over FST Corp.'s (NASDAQ:KBSX) Price

Oct 17

The Drive For Profits Is Missing The Green At FST Corp.

Jun 20

Some FST Corp. (NASDAQ:KBSX) Shareholders Look For Exit As Shares Take 28% Pounding

Mar 07

Some FST Corp. (NASDAQ:KBSX) Shareholders Look For Exit As Shares Take 45% Pounding

Jan 20

CEO

David Chuang (47 yo)

less than a year

Tenure

US$137,147

Compensation

Mr. David Chuang is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FST Corp. during this period, he has been instrumental in leading FST from a small steel shaft manufacturer in Taiwan into one of the largest gol...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
David Chuang	CEO & Chairman	less than a year	US$137.15k	13.74% $ 9.1m
Cheng-Teng Huang	COO, President and Head of Production & Supply Chains	less than a year	US$272.06k	0.32% $ 213.7k
Hui-Ting Hsu	Accounting Manager	4yrs	US$36.44k	0.065% $ 42.7k
Wen-Chi Chao	Executive Vice President of General Administration & Compliance	less than a year	US$60.74k	0.15% $ 101.5k
Sebastian Tadla	Chief Financial Officer	less than a year	no data	no data
Rob Cheng	President & Head of FST Golf	less than a year	no data	no data

0.6yrs

Average Tenure

46.5yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: KBSX's management team is not considered experienced ( 0.6 years average tenure), which suggests a new team.

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
David Chuang	CEO & Chairman	less than a year	US$137.15k	13.74% $ 9.1m
Huoy-Ming Yeh	Independent Director	less than a year	no data	no data
Shintaro Tanahara	Director	no data	US$2.18k	28.12% $ 18.6m
Ping-Chia Chen	Independent Director	less than a year	US$2.18k	no data
Yu-Cheng Li	Independent Director	less than a year	US$2.18k	no data
Qi Li	Independent Director	less than a year	no data	5.7% $ 3.8m
Lin Liu	Director	less than a year	no data	no data

0.8yrs

Average Tenure

54yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: KBSX's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 0.8 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/11/14 08:51
End of Day Share Price	2025/11/14 00:00
Earnings	2025/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

FST Corp. is covered by 0 analysts. 0 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.