Top 25 Success Stories -- You Helped Us Pick

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, AsianWeek brings you the top 25 Entrepreneurs, selected with help from our readers, in alphabetical order. While Asians or Asian Americans make up about 25 to 30 percent of Silicon Valley’s high-tech start-ups, of the valley’s 100 firms that received the bulk of venture capital funding, only 7 percent had chief executive officers who were of Asian descent, according to a study by the San Jose Mercury News.

JoMei Chang, Vitria Technologies

John Chen, Chairman/CEO/President, Sybase (Salary, $525,000)

Tu Chen, CEO, Kormag

Irene Chow, President/CEO, Genelabs Technologies

Lilia Clemente, Chair/CEO, Clemente Capital

John Fan, Founder/CEO, Kopin Corp.

Tony Hsieh, Co-Founder, LinkExchange

Andrea Jung, President, Avon (Salary, $1.1 million)

Steve Kim, Founder/Chairman, Xylan

Tae Yun Kim, CEO, LightHouse Associates

David King, CEO, Proxim

Chong Moon Lee, Founder/Director, Diamond Multimedia

Clement Mok, Founder, Studio Archetype/Chief Creative Officer, Sapient.

Bill Mow, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Bugle Boy Industries

Josie Cruz Natori, Founder/President, Natori Corporation

Kolchi Nishimura, CEO, Solectron (Salary $1.03 million)

Soon Hee Paik, Founder/CEO/President, ES Consultants, Inc.

Suhas Patil, Chairman Emeritus, Cirrus Logic

Chan Suh, Agency.com

David Sun and John Tu, Co-Founders, Kingston Technology

Charles Wang, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Computer Associates International

Vera Wang, Founder/President Vera Wang Bridal House

Cheng Wu, Founder/CEO, Arrowpoint Communications

Jerry Yang, Co-founder/Co-Chief, Yahoo

Henry Yue, Co-founder/Chair, Gemstar International (Salary $2.9 million)