Dr David W Yen, brings over 24 years of technology know-how, engineering vision and strong business management expertise to Sun Microsystems, Inc. As Executive Vice President of the company's Scalable Systems Group, Dr David W Yen is responsible for driving Sun's Throughput Computing and Throughput Networking initiatives. Under SSG, Dr David W Yen has unified Sun's microprocessors, enterprise systems and SPARC-based volume systems initiatives, and continues driving product development, strategy, marketing and overall business management.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr David W Yen was instrumental in developing a clear and focused vision for Sun's Enterprise Servers, enabling Sun to grow into a multi-billion dollar server system vendor. Dr David W Yen has held several positions including Executive Vice President of Sun's Processor & Network Products Group, Vice President and General Manager of Sun's Enterprise Systems, Integrated Products, Enterprise Server Products and Enterprise Server Engineering.

Dr David W Yen was co-founder and director of hardware development of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up, for four and a half years before joining Sun in October of 1988. Prior to Cydrome, Dr David W Yen was employed by IBM Research for manufacturing automation and TRW, Inc. for advanced processor development.

Dr David W Yen earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, received an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, and completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr David W Yen also holds three U.S. Patents.