My First Eisenhower Meetings (I couldn’t wait to get there to start)

The thing that has been most surprising to me in my Eisenhower quest so far is how helpful everyone is. Every contact has panned out – and I’m up to 50 in China alone. I’ve even started meeting with folks from abroad when they happen to be here. Last night I  had dinner with Thae Khwarg who is CEO of SEI Asset Korea. Thae is a Korean American, having spent his junior and senior high school years in Upper Merion. Carl Guarino, CEO of ICG Commerce introduced us and hosted us at dinner. It was a fascinating dinner, and Thae is clearly going to be extraordinarily helpful in showing me how to bridge to the Korean culture and is already making some amazing introductions for me, including Mr. Sang Hun Kim, the CEO of Naver the largest search engine in Korea (yeah, if you clicked through, you feel my pain Im getting very used to using Google Translate). I’m looking forward to seeing Thae again late this year in Seoul!
Last week TR Harrington came by the ClickEquations offices to visit. TR is an ex-pat living in Shanghai, having founded Darwin Marketing – a search agency – there. We tossed around ideas about search in general and he explained a lot about the status of search in China, where Baidu is completely dominant. The market is very far behind ours – Baidu just implemented something analogous to AdRank (for you search geeks). TR has great contacts in the entrepreneurial community and in the advertising game.
I am endlessly grateful for everyones help!