To: TobagoJack who wrote (1870 ) 11/5/2005 2:28:07 AM From: elmatador Respond to of 218361 MQ/TJ: Get a Chinese who studied to Canada. Is he the best of the best? Yes! Send him over to Brazil and lets fix the auto-industry. MQ's NZ can't do that kind of stuff. You need to be top league to revolutionize an industry. Ray G. Young: President and MD of GM do Brasil, General Motors's third-largest manufacturing operation. The fast-track seems to have been Young's path since his family immigrated to Canada from Guangzhou, China. In RAY G. YOUNG Profession: Senior Corporate Executive Birthplace: Port Elgin, Canada Position: President and Managing Director of GM do Brasil anaging the finances of the world's largest industrial company before the age of 40 is pretty good preparation for Ray G. Young's current post: President and Managing Director of GM do Brasil, General Motors's third-largest manufacturing operation. At 42, Young remains securely on what may be the steepest career path in the American corporate world. The fast-track seems to have been Young's path since his family immigrated to Canada from Guangzhou, China. In high school he set academic records which have yet to be broken. Between studies and helping parents at their restaurant, dates were scarce. Passing up admissions from top universities, he chose the University of Western Ontario for its business program, considered Canada's best. Upon graduation Young rejected tempting job offers to attend business school at the University of Chicago. With an MBA in hand, Young turned down many high-salaried positions at banks and investment firms to start as an entry-level financial analyst for GM in 1986. His goals required that he work for a large corporation. The gamble paid off within two years when he was promoted and transferred to GM's financial headquarters in New York. "I often worked until 2 in the morning," Young recalls of those early years, "because I worried that if I slowed down a pace, I'd fall behind." goldsea.com