Sybase Chairman, CEO and President John S. Chen Receives 2007 New Silk Road Award from California-Asia Business Council

DUBLIN, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that Chairman, CEO and President John S. Chen was honored by the California-Asia Business Council (Cal-Asia) with its 2007 New Silk Road Award. The award recognizes each year one individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the development and growth of U.S.-Asia commerce.

"John Chen is being honored for building strong markets for American technology in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere in Asia, and for vigorously championing the expansion of healthy U.S.-Asia commerce in Congress and in industry and policy forums," said Brad Aris, senior vice president of Wells Fargo HSBC Trade Bank, San Francisco, and chairman of Cal-Asia's award committee.

The New Silk Road Award program, now in its 13th year, honors individuals who foster a healthy and active business environment between the East and the West. The name of the award symbolizes both the ancient trade routes between Asia and the Western world, and the economic importance of today's trans-Pacific commerce.

"I am honored to receive this award and offer my sincere thanks to the California-Asia Business Council for creating a forum that recognizes important contributions to strengthen business ties between the U.S. and Asia," said John Chen. "I look forward to continuing to be part of this force and forge a greater, more robust trade relationship."

Previous winners of the award are former Secretary of State George Shultz (2006); Senator Dianne Feinstein (2005); Washington SyCip, known as the "Wise Owl" of Asian business (2004); and Dr. Daniel Chao, then chairman of Bechtel China (2003).

Chen responded to the award with remarks on the current landscape of U.S.-China business relations at Cal-Asia's annual "Asia Night" dinner and networking gala on Friday, Oct. 26, at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.

Addressing some 300 business leaders at the event, Chen said, "We should focus on long-term issues in the U.S.-China business relationship, which are free flows of the three fundamental ingredients of any knowledge-based economy: investment, talent and knowledge.

"Corporate America should concentrate more on the openness and transparency of both American and Chinese markets, as well as the future competitiveness of the U.S. economy."

Full text of Chen's speech can be found at http://www.asianight.org/JohnChenRemarks.html.

About Cal-Asia

The California-Asia Business Council (Cal-Asia) is California's leading non-profit, Asia-focused business association. Its mission is to help California firms of all sizes develop or expand their commercial ties with the economies of Asia. Asia Night is the annual business networking and fundraising gala. Web sites: http://www.calasia.org/ and http://www.asianight.org/

About Sybase, Inc.

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