Pehong Chen

Dr. Pehong Chen is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer, President & Chairman at Broadvision. He is an internationally recognized business visionary in the field of new media and self-service web applications. He has received numerous accolades for his leadership at BroadVision, including Master of the Universe by BusinessWeek as one of the 25 most influential people in e-business, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and Fast500 by Deloitte & Touche. Prior to founding BroadVision in 1993, he was VP of multimedia technology at Sybase, responsible for the company's interactive initiatives. Earlier, he founded and was President of Gain Technology, a leading supplier of multimedia software tools, where he pioneered multimedia as an enabling technology for a new generation of business applications. Gain was acquired by Sybase in 1992. He also helped found Siebel Systems, now a worldwide leader in front office automation software, and served on its board of directors until 1996. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman at Pactera Technology International. He also was a Board Member of Sina.