More on Jack Perkowski...
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After a twenty year career on Wall Street, I began my second career in Asia and China in 1990. Managing The Dragon is my first book and it describes the thought process which took me from Wall Street to the Great Wall; the logic which lead to the founding in 1994 of ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important companies in China's rapidly growing automotive industry; the trials and tribulations of establishing a major business in China; and all that I have learned about China and doing business here over the past fifteen years. My on the ground experience in China over a long period of time, combined with my Wall Street background, gives me a somewhat unique take on what is happening in this rapidly developing superpower and how it is impacting the rest of the world. My website provides a running commentary on events as they unfold in China.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and went to Yale where I blocked for Calvin Hill on one of the best teams in Yale football history. (In fact, our 29-29 tie with Harvard at the end of the 1968 season was listed by Sports Illustrated as one of the five most memorable games in the history of college football.) After Yale, I graduated from the Harvard Business School where I was named a Baker Scholar, and then began my career in investment banking in New York. Most of the time I spent on Wall Street was with Paine Webber (now part of UBS) where I ended up running the Investment Banking Division, but I also started an LBO fund with John Kluge, the legendary telecommunications mogul and founder of Metromedia, before setting off for China.
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