Experts
Jack Perkowski
Chairman and CEO, ASIMCO
Chinese capital markets are about as developed as Wall Street was when Jack Perkowski started there in 1973. Read More
Thanks to the Olympics, Chinese manufacturers are more attuned to creating environmentally-friendly cars than their foreign counterparts. Read More
If you see diesel truck on the road in China, it most likely came from Perkowski’s company. Read More
Despite Beijing’s apparent officiousness, control of China is not centralized. Read More
This is China’s 30th year of reform. There are visible signs of wealth all over the country. Everyone is feeling optimistic. Everyone is focusing on education. Read More
“Everybody in China is actually from Missouri,” says Jack Perkowski. They are hard workers; they are skeptical of optimistic outsiders, but they respect success. Read More
About Jack Perkowski
Jack Perkowski is the chairman and chief executive officer of ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important players in China's automotive components industry. He founded the company in February 1994, after spending three years investigating opportunities in Asia and China and before others recognized the significant role that China would play in the global economy. With seventeen factories in eight provinces and fifty-two sales offices located in every corner of the country, ASIMCO Technologies is unique because it functions as a foreign-invested company built to specifically to serve the Chinese market. Under Perkowski's leadership, ASIMCO has gained a reputation for developing local management and integrating a broad-based China operation into the global economy. In 2005, ASIMCO was named one of the "Ten Best Employers in China," ranking third in a survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and 21st-Century Business Herald.
Jack’s new book Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China (Crown Business; March 18, 2008) discusses Jack’s experiences building ASIMCO from the ground up and the lessons he learned in developing the company’s local management team. The book also covers a wide range of topics such as decentralization; China’s different cost perspective and how it creates two markets for any product; intellectual property concerns; and practical advice on how to start a business in the country.