Aiming High

Asked for his impressions of India, the young and cheerful vice-president and managing director of the Asia-Pacific sales and marketing operations of Seagate quipped, I am not going to say I saw five cows on the roads! After a moment's pause, he added, I am not a picky American. I will eat anything, drink anything.

It is not surprising then that Stead has been successful in increasing Seagate's storage business in the Asia-Pacific region rather impressively. Today, nearly 80 per cent of the company's employees are from just four Asian countries