Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. 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. 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.