Alfred S. Chuang
Founder, Chairman and CEO
BEA Systems

Alfred Chuang, who founded BEA Systems in early 1995 with Bill Coleman and Ed Scott, had managed just about every aspect of BEA by the time he became CEO in October 2001. He had led the areas of finance, sales, services, engineering, product development, MIS, corporate development, business planning, developer services, human resources and global operations. He had been BEA’s chief technology officer, executive vice president of product development, president of BEA WebXpress, president of business operations, and president and chief operating officer. In August 2002, in addition to CEO, Mr. Chuang became BEA’s chairman of the board.

All three BEA co-founders came from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where Mr. Chuang had built a brilliant nine-year career. He held management positions in the critical areas of software product development, network infrastructure, systems architecture, and operations management. As founder and head of the computer resources center for Sun Intercontinental Operations, he helped establish key subsidiaries in the Pacific Rim. Mr. Chuang was also director of the strategic systems group in Sun’s Information Resources Organization, and finally corporate director and chief scientist of SunIntegration Services.

Prior to Sun, Mr. Chuang worked for more than seven years in the commercial computing, software systems research, and systems consulting industries, where, with many published technical papers to his credit, he became a well-known expert on enterprise information technology rightsizing and distributed data management. During this period, he also pioneered and prototyped the implementation of the TCP/IP network on the IBM PC platform.

Mr. Chuang received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. His graduate thesis, “Table-Tabular Data Objects and their Use in Table Editing,” remains one of California State Library’s most frequently used reference materials on relational database development.