What were the most difficult challenges your business has faced and how did that help build your leadership character?
The nature of the industry requires the bridging of Eastern and Western business cultures and practices. It requires us to establish manufacturing facilities in developing countries and often times in the poorest areas of developing countries. It requires commitment, endurance and perseverance to provide training and education to the staff from that country. This helped me to develop leadership because I had to learn how to bridge the cultural gaps. Helping people from different income levels to work towards a common goal helped me develop an almost altruistic style of leadership where we train for the greater good of the industry and society, not solely for the benefit of our company.

Did you have any role models when you were growing up?
My grandfather and my grandfather’s sisters were successful business people who had a lot of concern for society. They practiced CSR way back in the days where they contributed back to society by building schools from the profits of their business. Since they did business in the war, they used their finances to provide for their fellowmen who became refugees. developing countries. It requires commitment, endurance and perseverance to provide training and education to the staff from that country. This helped me to develop leadership because I had to learn how to bridge the cultural gaps. Helping people from different income levels to work towards a common goal helped me develop an almost altruistic style of leadership where we train for the greater good of the industry and society, not solely for the benefit of our company.