How I Did It: Chris Chen, CEO, Segue Electronics
Inc., September, 2006 by Larry Olmsted
Industry: Computers and Electronics 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: 190 Three-Year Growth: 620% As a teenager in China, Chris Chen was sent to a farm for three years of re-education--"in hindsight, the best education," he says. "The hardship was a great lesson." He later emigrated, and today he travels to China as an M.B.A.-wielding American businessman.
Segue Electronics, which produces custom electronic components in China, primarily for American companies, did $11.2 million in sales last year. All of this, remarkably, was set in motion by a chance meeting between Chen and a couple of American Rotarians. In 1978, I was at an art gallery in Shanghai and I ran into this American couple, which was very unusual at the time, to be able to talk to Westerners. I talked to them for about...
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