John S. Chen is a businessperson who has been at the head of 5 different companies and presently is Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for BlackBerry Ltd. He is also on the board of California Institute of Technology, San Francisco Symphony (former Trustee), The First Tee and National Committee on United States-China Relations, Inc. and Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. In his past career Mr. Chen was General Manager for Unisys Corp. and Vice President & General Manager at Burroughs Corp. (a subsidiary of Unisys Corp.), Member of President's Export Council, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer for Sybase, Inc., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Pyramid Information Systems, Inc., President & Chief Operating Officer for Pyramid Technology Corp., President-Open Enterprise Computing Division at Siemens Nixdorf and Member of Committee of 100. Mr. Chen received an undergraduate degree from Brown University and a graduate degree from California Institute of Technology.