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1. John Chen
BlackBerry
John Chen is the Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited. Joining the company in 2013, Chen led BlackBerry through a successful pivot from hardware icon to software leader. Today, the company is poised to leverage its brand strength and heritage in mobile along with its enterprise cybersecurity and embedded software growth engines to accelerate into the Enterprise of Things, an emerging category with billions of connected devices and massive market potential.
Prior to joining Blackberry, Chen was Chairman, President and CEO of Sybase for 14 years. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a master's in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Chen has an honorary professorship from Shanghai University, and honorary doctorates from San Jose State University, City University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.