Pehong Chen

Who is Pehong Chen?

Pehong Chen is an American businessman who co-founded Gain Technology with his Ph.D. advisor Michael Harrison and went on to found Broadvision. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadvision. Bloomberg Businessweek included Chen in a list of the "World's Most Successful Immigrants."

Chen was born in Taiwan in 1957 and earned a Ph.D in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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