Saved from near-bankruptcy by engineer-turned-entrepreneur Henry Juszkiewicz and master luthier Lawrence Ferguson, Gibson now cranks out instruments that rival Martin's not only in price but in quality.
VTech was founded in 1976 by Hong Kong's Allan Wong, an electrical engineer with a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin who had worked as a design engineer for NCR in Hong Kong.
An engineer with two master's degrees from MIT, Koch is a voracious reader, heavily influenced by the so-called Austrian School of free market economics.