Roy Kusumoto

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Roy Kusumoto is an American businessman who founded Solectron in 1977. He started the company as a small assembly shop that under the input of Winston Chen and Ko Nishimura would grow into an electronics manufacturing giant with over $20 billion in sales and 65,000 employees.[1]

Kusomoto had worked at Atari and founded another company Optical Diodes before starting Solectron. Originally intended as a solar energy company, Solectron first took up work as a peak period manufacturing service provider to Silicon Valley companies as a way of raising funds for the original solar purpose, but this pursuit in this sector never materialized.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Prestowitz, Clyde V. (2005). Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East. Basic Books. p. 51. ISBN 9780465004768.
  2. ^ Steinbock, Dan (2003). Wireless Horizon: Strategy and Competition in the Worldwide Mobile Marketplace. AMACON. pp. 337. ISBN 9780814407141. Roy Kusumoto.