132: Robert Roche Founder and Executive Chairman of Oak Lawn Marketing

Robert Roche, Founder and Executive Chairman of Oak Lawn
Marketing and Founder and President of Roche Enterprises
originally trained as a lawyer and has become one of the most
successful foreign business founders in Japan. His company, Oak
Lawn Marketing found a niche opportunity to bring popular North
American TV shopping products to Japan. In 1997 he took the same
concept to China and established a business there. He and his
partners later sold part of the TV Shopping business, rebranded
to Shop Japan, to DoCoMo for one of the biggest exits ever
achieved by a foreign start-up in Japan.