Asia Night 2007

California-Asia Business Council
Asia Night 2007

Honorary
Committee
List information

John Bowe,
President, APL Americas

Hon. Mike Honda
U.S. Representative

Mr. Robert Iger
President and CEO,
The Walt Disney Company

Richard M. Kovacevich
Chairman, Wells Fargo

G. Paul Matthews
Chairman and CIO, Matthews International Capital LLC

Hon. George Mitchell
U.S. Senator, Retired

Hon. Ellen Tauscher
U.S. Representative

Past New Silk Road Award Recipients

2006
Hon. George P. Shultz
Former U.S.
Secretary of State

2005
Hon. Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator

2004
Washington SyCip,
Asia's "Wise Owl" of Business

2003
Dr. Daniel K. H. Chao,
Chairman, Bechtel China

Cal-Asia

NEW SILK ROAD AWARD

About the Award

This nation's commercial relationships with Asia are among the most significant factors affecting our nation's economic future. Their importance will only increase.

To acknowledge the contributions of individuals whose work has significantly fostered U.S.-Asia business ties, Cal-Asia created the New Silk Road Award. It commends the deliberate and judicious nurturing these individuals have provided to help America's relationships with Asian markets expand in healthy ways.

The Award itself consists of a framed piece of embroidered silk, representing the evolving patterns and intertwined nature of California's commerce with Asia, bearing a commemorative plate.

John S. Chen
Chairman, CEO and President
Sybase, Inc.

The New Silk Road Award for 2007 will be accepted at Asia Night by John S. Chen, Chairman, CEO and President of Sybase Inc. This Award is given annually by the California-Asia Business Council for outstanding contributions to business ties with Asia.

With one foot in Asia, where he was born, and the other here, John Chen has made Sybase the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information. He has headed the company since 1998.

Mr. Chen is being honored for building strong Asian markets for American technology in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere in Asia, and for vigorously championing the expansion of healthy US-Asia commerce in Congress and in industry and policy forums.

John Chen serves on the President’s Export Council and as co-chairman of the Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee, and on the boards of the Walt Disney Company and Wells Fargo & Co. He is part of the prestigious Chinese-American leadership group, the Committee of 100.

Before joining Sybase, Mr. Chen held positions as president of the Open Enterprise Computing Division of Siemens Nixdorf, and chairman and CEO of Pyramid Technology. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and holds a MS degree from California Institute of Technology.

This year’s award is comprised of a Laotian hanging hand-loomed in gold, silver and black silk.

Previous award recipients have included former US Secretary of State George Shultz; US Senator Dianne Feinstein; Washington SyCip, known as the “Wise Owl” of Asian business; and Dr. Daniel K. H. Chao, then Chairman of Bechtel Greater China and currently Chairman Emeritus of Cal-Asia.

VIEW JOHN CHEN'S ACCEPTANCE REMARKS HERE

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