Vincent Chang
AVP of WWBO (Worldwide Business Organization)
- General Manager of Advantech Turkey
- Worked for NEXCOM and Colavia as Sales Director
Vincent Chang joined Advantech in 2002 and served as product manager and product Sales Manager of the Industrial Automation Group. Since 2007, he joined NEXCOM as Sales Director in China until 2011. Thereafter, Vincent worked as Sales Vice President for Colavia, China. During this time he refined sales and marketing strategies to gain market share from the competition and achieved several major business goals.
Vincent re-joined Advantech Industrial IoT Group in 2014, growing the business in ASEAN, India, and Australia regions with double digital growth in three consecutive years. Vincent’s responsibility expanded to Russia in 2017, where he re-built the local organization and successfully reversed the four-year business downturn, then reached double-digit growth by the end of 2018. Simultaneously, Vincent was appointed General Manager of ARU and established an operations infrastructure in such an efficient way that it gave the ARU office a much higher profile as a regional company. During the same year, Vincent was in charge of ME&A and appointed General Manager of ASEAN, where he effectively facilitated cross-sector collaboration in terms of productive outcomes of new business in Malaysia and Singapore.
To continuously expand Advantech’s global footprint, Chang Min-chung facilitated joint venture (JV) agreements in Vietnam, Turkey, and Mexico between 2018 and 2020, establishing new subsidiaries in these regions. Under his leadership, these three JV subsidiaries successfully adopted Advantech’s operational systems and business structures, rapidly demonstrating strong profitability. In 2020, he was appointed Regional General Manager for Asia-Pacific and Overseas Emerging Markets, tasked with driving Advantech’s globalization through regional growth and transforming the region into a model incubator for new business development. In 2026, he was appointed Vice President of WWBO; leveraging his extensive management experience, he is expected to lead the team in becoming a professional, comprehensive, and agile organization.