An engineer by training, American by citizenship, New Yorker by birth and attitude, he has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe.

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Welsh by birth, American by citizenship, he took over Japan's most admired company in 2005, when it was in serious trouble, and turned it around in the face of immense cultural obstacles.

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