John S. Chen
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| John Chen | |
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| Born | July 1, 1955 Hong Kong |
| Occupation | CEO of Sybase |
John S. Chen (born July 1, 1955) is chairman, chief executive officer and president of Sybase, Inc. He is also a director of Wells Fargo & Company.
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[edit] Education
A native of Hong Kong, John Chen graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite prep school in Northfield, Massachusetts. He then went on to graduate magna cum laude from Brown University in 1978 with a BS degree in electrical engineering. In 1979 he received his MS degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.[1]
[edit] Career
With Unisys, John Chen was vice president and general manager of, in turn, the Convergent RISC Platform Division and the Convergent UNIX Systems Group. In 1991 he joined Pyramid Technology Corporation as executive vice president. Chen was elected president, chief operating officer and a director of Pyramid in 1993, serving until 1995.
Chen next joined Siemens Nixdorf as a vice president in 1995. He was promoted to president and chief executive officer of Siemens Nixdorf's Open Enterprise Computing Division in 1996.
In 1997 Chen became president, chief operating officer and a director of Sybase, Inc., the largest independent software vendor specializing in enterprise database, information management and mobility technology. He was named chairman, CEO and president of Sybase in November 1998.
Chen was elected a director of the Walt Disney Company in 2004 and of Wells Fargo & Company in 2006. He is also a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Committee of 100, a trustee of the San Francisco Symphony, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In the realm of politics, he has been a member of Bush-Cheney 2004 and John McCain 2008 campaigns.
[edit] Awards
John Chen received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year© Award in 2007. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year© award is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, spanning more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide.
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- American chief executives
- American people of Chinese descent
- American people of Hong Kong descent
- Brown University alumni
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Disney people
- Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
- Members of Committee of 100
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- Wells Fargo
