Jack Perkowski, aka Mr China, is among the best known US entrepreneurs focused on China. His journey to China began in 1990 when he left a successful career on Wall Street to pursue a dream. Perkowski understood the the power of long-term trends, in this case the development of China in the new era of Economic Reform and Opening up established by Deng Xiao Ping. After a couple of years of due diligence, he settled on the auto parts industry, where the government was eager for foreign technology, capital, and know-how. He founded ASIMCO in 1994, which developed into a unique organisation with 17 manufacturing plants across China.
Perkowski recorded many of his experiences working in China in his book, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business In China, published by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, in March 2008. This is one of the best books I have read about doing business in China, full of insights into China's economic and political system, the challenges of Joint Ventures, and wisdom of succeeding in business. A former football player at Yale, Perkowski combines the grit of an athlete from Pittsburgh with the sophistication of an international financial and operational executive. And to top it off, he is a genuinely warm, earnest and optimistic man. I am sure you will enjoy this conversation.
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