Timothy Chen

Founder & Chairman, CATCHPLAY Inc.

Timothy is the founder of CATCHPLAY Inc., the distribution arm of the CATCHPLAY group. Timothy began his career at VIA’s Taiwan headquarters in 1996. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of California Berkeley.

Also a board and advisory member at a number of technology companies, Timothy is involved in social ventures, social media, premium content providers, hardware companies at the semiconductor & system level, and is a hobbyist angel investor. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Timothy is also responsible for VIA worldwide business development and strategic partnerships for VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of PC silicon and platform technologies. In addition to presiding over VIA’s Global Sales & Marketing, he serves as the CEO of VIA China.

Daphne Yang

Chief Executive Officer

Daphne joined CATCHPLAY in 2012 as Executive Director. She oversees the full array of businesses at CATCHPLAY starting from content acquisition, cinematic distribution and licensing. Observing growing opportunities in the digital world, Daphne took the initiatives and led CATCHPLAY to embark on its expansion into the digital content industry in 2015 and successfully launched the CATCHPLAY On Demand service in Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia in 2016. Daphne has also extended the company’s reach upstream into co-production and investments. The recent projects include The Revenant (2016) and Assassin’s Creed (2016) with Hollywood Studio New Regency and Silence (2016), director Martin Scorsese’s passion project shot completely in Taiwan.

Prior to joining CATCHPLAY, Daphne had extensive experience in international advertising agencies followed by nearly 8 years in the telecom industry as the Vice President of Marketing at Taiwan Mobile.

Shaoyi Chen

General Manager, Production

Shao-Yi Chen is the General Manager of Production at Screenworks Asia, the production subsidiary of CATCHPLAY, a joint venture with the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) founded in 2020 to fuel the production of premium content, including films, series and fact-based entertainment from Taiwan targeting international audiences. A passionate professional with roughly 20 years of experience in the entertainment business and trained in various disciplines, Shai-Yi has a comprehensive knowledge of and proven track record ranging from distribution, licensing, acquisition, and financing to OTT platform service, including CATCHPLAY’s slate financing on New Regency’s three Academy Awards winners: The Revenant (2015), Assassin’s Creed (2016), and Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016). Shao-Yi co-executive produced 20 Once Again (2015), the Chinese remake of the Korean heartfelt comedy hit Miss Granny (2014) and the Thai horror Cracked (2022) and produced the series The Making of An Ordinary Woman 2 (2021) and Twisted Strings (2022) and the TV show Dee’s Talk (2021).