Today Weller Chen, Product Marketing Director at Thermaltake, announced via email to colleagues and press that he was no longer with the company.
The letter read as follows
Dear Team, Colleagues, Partners and Friends,
It has been a great journey working at Thermaltake for the past 10+ years. I am very thankful to all of my co-workers who have always supported me. As a team, we have achieved more than revenue/growth targets, we have achieved something that most people take it for granted, which is teamwork.
I am happy to work with extremely talented and competent team at the office as well as some of the most capable people in the industry. There is no doubt in my mind that my teams and colleagues will keep doing great jobs even after my departure from this office. I would like to give my best regards to everyone here in the office as I bid you farewell
Weller had been with Thermaltake for 13 years, and helped bring products to market that many of us in the enthusiast space know and love.
Thermaltake is going through some restructuring right now. The details have not been released yet, but an employee of Thermaltake let us know via phone that things are changing at the office. They are a publicly traded company on the TWSE (Taiwan Stock Exchange), and today they are trading at $16.70 TWD (Taiwan New Dollars), which is approximately $.56 USD (56 cents), down from a year ago when they were trading at $20.40 TWD. Their stock peaked in March of 2012 at $23.90 and has since been steadily falling to today’s level.
According to the employee we spoke with, pay cuts were handed out to some employees, and some have chosen to resign rather than take pay cuts. Whether Weller Chen was among those who were offered paycuts was not confirmed.
We met Weller at various trade shows over the years and always found him a really cool guy to work with, and clearly a massive PC enthusiast. Without question, he was not phoning it in—he truly cared about Thermaltake’s products and PC gaming.
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