Alan Lui seemed to have a great career ahead of him in technology, except for one thing: he really wanted to work with people.
“Everything we do is a function of our people. This is what makes us successful,” says Alan. He grew up in Hawaii, the first in three generations not to work in the sugar fields or sugar mills. After starting his career as an engineer for Johnson Controls, he decided to go back to business school and obtained his MBA from Harvard. He tried consulting and then started a tech startup with a partner.
“We were very small. My business partner was very much the technology guy and I was the one running the day-to-day operations. I enjoyed the technology but gravitated much more to the power of finding great people, motivating them well and leading them well.”
