Seeing China’s Potential – An interview with Syed Jafry of ThermoFisher Scientific (part 1)

Download this podcast Length 14:38 Download audio file (20091014_syed_jafy_pt1.mp3) Those of you who are long-time listeners to the China Business Podcast have heard us talk, endlessly, about ways that companies need to be looking at the potential opportunities in China, not just the actual ones … to look not only at the present, but the future of China. I loved to play and watch hockey when I was a kid, and nothing was more thrilling than to see the great Wayne Gretzky play … it was magical, how he would always be in the right place at the right time.  Someone once asked him why he was such a good hockey player and he said, “because I skated to where the puck was going to be.” And that’s the challenge, isn’t it … to start working in China today based on where it is going to be in the future.  In todays Podcast, we have a very special treat … we are going to talk with someone who is actually putting this adage into practice.  Syed Jafry is the President of the Global Environmental Division for ThermoFisher Scientific, a very diverse, publicly traded company.  Syed and ThermoFisher are on, what I believe, is the cutting edge of global business and we sat and had a conversation in his Shanghai office on a rainy morning just before the National Day holiday.