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Jack Perkowski is a Wall Street veteran, author, and the founder and Managing Partner of JFP Holdings, Ltd. 〔(Washington Speakers Bureau )〕 He is also the former CEO and Chairman of the Board of ASIMCO Technologies, an automotive components company in China.〔(China Briefing )〕 Despite not being able to speak Chinese, he is known as "Mr. China" after the Tim Clissold book which detailed his leading role in investing over $400 million in China as the country first opened up to foreign direct investment.〔(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )〕 As such, he is one of the few Western writers on business in China. ==Biography== Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jack Perkowski is a graduate of North Catholic High School. He attended Yale University on a football scholarship and received the Gordon Brown Memorial Prize, which is awarded each year to the outstanding member of the Junior Class.〔(JFP Holdings Website )〕 After graduating from Yale in 1970, he attended Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA degree with high distinction and was designated a Baker Scholar. He spent 21 years as an investment banker at Paine Webber, where he raised $300 million of equity for Paine Webber in the immediate aftermath of the stock market crash of October 19, 1987 known as "Black Monday".〔(Premiere Speakers Bureau )〕 In 1994, Jack Perkowski founded ASIMCO (Chinese: 亚新科集团 ''Yaxinke''), an automotive components company based in Beijing, China. Under Perkowski's leadership, ASIMCO was twice named one of the “Ten Best Employers in China,” ranking third, in the last survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and ''21st Century Business Herald''. In 2008, he was named one of "30 Outstanding Entrepreneurs in China's Auto Components Industry Over the Country's 30 Years of Economic Reform," by ''China Auto News'', the only foreigner to receive such distinction.〔 In 2009, Jack Perkowski established JFP Holdings, a merchant bank for China, to help global companies develop and implement their China strategies and to assist Chinese companies develop global footprints.〔(JFP Holdings Website )〕 Jack Perkowski was featured in the best-selling book ''The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'' by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman.〔 In 2008, he authored ''Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China,'' published by Crown Business. Peridocally, Perkowski contributes to the Morning Whistle newspaper owned by 21st Century Media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.morningwhistle.com/index.php?m=author&c=index&a=home&author=Jack Perkowski )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Perkowski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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