Entrepreneurship
In my view, entrepreneurship is about taking personal risks in business and doing everything one can to succeed. Since it often means making a 100% commitment, fully vesting yourself independent of any schedules, it becomes a life style choice rather than a job. Typically, entrepreneurship also means increased and more detailed involvement in fiscal and cash flow management, treating company's funds as one's own, and controlling spending. I believe all successful leaders have some level of entrepreneurship in them.
My entrepreneurial experience is long and multifaceted ranging from working in family businesses to owning and starting companies. In 2005, I orchestrated a management buyout of a business division from a previous employer, transformed it to an employee-owned multinational corporation, and have run it successfully for 20 years through several recessions and weak economic times. During my college years, I founded and operated a successful consulting practice as the principal providing mechanical and thermal engineering services for manufacturing companies.
My father held international senior executive positions in aviation at airlines in Canada, Africa, and Finland. When he started his own company for charter flights and maintenance services for helicopters and small aircraft, I joined to help run it during high school and college. Also before high school, my first paid summer jobs were helping my uncle with his construction company. He was the hardest working man I have ever known. My experience with our family businesses has shaped entrepreneurship and global business sense in me, as well as the importance of strong work ethic, integrity, and trustworthiness.
My entrepreneurial experience is long and multifaceted ranging from working in family businesses to owning and starting companies. In 2005, I orchestrated a management buyout of a business division from a previous employer, transformed it to an employee-owned multinational corporation, and have run it successfully for 20 years through several recessions and weak economic times. During my college years, I founded and operated a successful consulting practice as the principal providing mechanical and thermal engineering services for manufacturing companies.
My father held international senior executive positions in aviation at airlines in Canada, Africa, and Finland. When he started his own company for charter flights and maintenance services for helicopters and small aircraft, I joined to help run it during high school and college. Also before high school, my first paid summer jobs were helping my uncle with his construction company. He was the hardest working man I have ever known. My experience with our family businesses has shaped entrepreneurship and global business sense in me, as well as the importance of strong work ethic, integrity, and trustworthiness.
