Tell us about your early years before you joined John Hardy.
My career in luxury started with a pretty well-known pen maker [Montblanc], which has grown over 100 years into a wonderful luxury brand. I started off my career in my hometown in Germany; I was born, raised and educated in Germany and then the United States. I started off with [Montblanc in 1994], but very quickly, I moved to Asia: first
