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Met and worked with him (briefly) in the 90's. Nice guy. No focus. Lost a lot of other people's money. Probably should have been a professor instead of a businessman.


What do you base that on? He founded ECD in 1960, was the CEO for 46 years, built it into a 300m+/year revenue company. Left it in 2006.. it went bankrupt in 2012.

The bonds that led to the bankruptcy were issued in 2008 by his replacement/

The trustee recently filed suit against 3 chineese companies saying ECD went bankrupt because of their price fixing.

Are you saying that because it went bankrupt 6 years after he left, that he was a bad businessman?

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732382910...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230344200457912...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Conversion_Devices




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