# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-s-chen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:50.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-s-chen"
name: "John S. Chen"
slug: "john-s-chen"
description: "John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-American businessman who served as executive chairman and chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd. Previously, he served as the chief executive officer and president of Sybase, a software vendor specializing in data management, analytics and mobility technology."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Chen_at_Techonomy_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1955-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.745830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 135
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C._%DA%86%D9%86"
    title: "جان سی. چن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3._%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86"
    title: "جون س. تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Chen"
    title: "John S. Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_S._Chen"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Chen"
    title: "John S. Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E5%AE%88%E5%AE%97"
    title: "程守宗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6256206"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump