Pehong Chen (; born 1957) is a

Taiwanese-American Taiwanese Americans () are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of Califo ...

businessman who co-founded Gain Technology with his Ph.D. advisor

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and went on to found

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. He currently serves as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of BroadVision.

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included Chen in a list of the "World's Most Successful Immigrants." Chen was born in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

in 1957 and earned a Ph.D in computer science from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He founded BroadVision in 1993, an e-commerce company that helped companies create storefronts on the web. During the Internet technology heyday of the late 1990s, Businessweek described his efforts at BroadVision as doing for "electronic commerce what McDonald's Corp.'s Ray Kroc was to hamburgers."Businessweek
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Awards

- 1999 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient, Northern California Region

References

External links

LinkedIn profile
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