My working career started in Zuirch, Switzerland with completing my apprenticeship in banking. I worked in the banking industry for about 9 years. I worked in the Documentary Credit Department where I got my first exposure to international trade.
Once I found my way to Chicago I worked two years for a Japanese Bank in downtown Chicago. I was the supervisor of the documentary credit department.
Looking for a new challenge I got by accident a job with a small Customs House Broker in Elk Grove Village. I worked in their export department handling air and ocean freight. For two years I learned as much as I could before I changed to a different freight forwarder. All in all I worked about 1...