In 2010, Stephan Tanda, a member of the Managing Board at Royal DSM, flew in from the company’s headquarters in The Netherlands with an important question for Hugh Welsh, General Counsel of DSM’s North America division.
The two went out to dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Parsippany, New Jersey. Welsh said he remembers the moment like it was yesterday: “He asked me directly, ‘Do you want to be the President for DSM North America?’ I said, ‘Why would you want to do that to me? I really enjoy what I do. Why would you want to do this to me?’”
Welsh had been ...
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