At IBM he mastered a software trick called "just-in-time compiling, " which analyzes the flow of instructions surging toward a microchip and identifies all the repetitive or redundant steps that can be eliminated.
During that time, he began compiling a list of China's leading businesspeople, 15 homegrown entrepreneurs who Hoogewerf believes are China's wealthiest.
But he noted that for the first time this year that when compiling data for supply and demand tables, his firm is adding a new category: diamond recycling.