Dr. Pehong Chen, president, CEO, and chairman of the board, 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 vice president 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. Dr. Chen received his PhD in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1988.