SMCI Chief ExecutiveWhat Charles Liang says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Founder, President, CEO & Chairman · Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Founded Supermicro in 1993 with wife Sara Liu; has led the company through the 2024 accounting/delisting crisis and its transformation into a major AI rack-scale server builder.
Liang owns about 11% of Super Micro Computer, Inc., worth $2.81B at the last close.
Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.
Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.
| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Common Stock | Direct | 40,426,120 |
| Common Stock | Joint Account w/ Spouse | 25,332,520 |
| Common Stock | Spouse | 637,506 |
| Common Stock | CL Grantor Retained Trust | 600,000 |
| Common Stock | CL2 Grantor Retained Trust | 600,000 |
| Common Stock | Wife | 480,000 |
| Common Stock | Self as Trustee for Green Earth Charitable Organization | 190,000 |
| Common Stock | Green Earth Charitable Trust | 150,000 |
| Common Stock | spouse as trustee of Green Earth Charitable Trust | 29,000 |
| Common Stock | Spouse as Trustee for Green Earth Charitable Trust | 15,000 |
| Common Stock | Child A | 3,327 |
| Common Stock | Child B | 3,327 |
| Common Stock | Child C | 3,327 |
| Common Stock | Child D | 3,327 |
| Common Stock | Child E | 3,327 |
| Common Stock | daughter | 2,300 |
| Common Stock | Chiu-Chu Liu Liang Custodian for Victoria Liang UTMA of California | 2,300 |
| Common Stock | Chiu-Chu Liu Liang Custodian for Christina Liang UTMA of California | 2,300 |
| Common Stock | Chiu-Chu Liu Liang Custodian for Briana Liang UTMA of California | 2,300 |
| Common Stock | Chiu-Chu Liu Liang Custodian for Bill Liang UTMA of California | 2,300 |
| Reported as of 2026-08-17 | 68,488,281 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +3,650 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| Aug 17, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax | Tax | Shares withheld for tax | −1,970 | $38.28 | $75K | Through Spouse |
| Aug 10, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | +3,134 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| Aug 10, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots | Tax | Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots | −1,692 | $31.46 | $53K | Through Spouse |
| Jul 1, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion across 3 lots | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion across 3 lots | +1,613 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| Jul 1, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax across 3 lots | Tax | Shares withheld for tax across 3 lots | −872 | $27.65 | $24K | Through Spouse |
| May 26, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift | Gift | Gift | −340,000 | — | — | Through Joint Account w/ Spouse |
| May 10, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | +6,218 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| May 10, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots | Tax | Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots | −3,355 | $35.37 | $119K | Through Spouse |
| Feb 27, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +20,980 | $4.24 | $89K | Through Spouse |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMCI Super Micro Computer, Inc. This page | President and CEO | 68M 2026-08-17 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
191 filings under CIK 0001392942 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
2 recorded appearances
Liang's Computex-week keynote centered on Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) — Supermicro's pitch that modular, pre-validated blocks (boards, chassis, power, liquid-cooled racks, CDUs, facility gear) let customers stand up AI data centers faster than bespoke designs.
Watch or read: CEO Keynote @ Supermicro Innovate │ Computex 2026, Jun 1, 2026 →Filmed on the Silicon Valley factory floor with SemiAnalysis's Dylan Patel, Liang traces Supermicro from a three-person motherboard shop to rack-scale AI systems and defends vertical integration and the building-block architecture as the source of its speed to market.
Watch or read: How Supermicro Engineered Building Blocks and AI - Interview with Charles Liang & Dylan Patel, Oct 16, 2025 →
