I was born in a small log cabin...

Well, no. I was raised in the quiet suburbs of northern New Jersey (the part ... more

I was born in a small log cabin...

Well, no. I was raised in the quiet suburbs of northern New Jersey (the part of the state without an accent) and educated in a pretty good public school system. I became a car enthusiast at around age 3, and started drawing cars around age 10, so, by the time I graduated high school, I had decided I wanted to be an automotive designer. I got an engineering degree at MIT (intended to be a prelude to going to a design school), and then stumbled into a job at one of Detroit's Big Three, doing planning and marketing within their Design Staff. I stayed with the design organization for about fourteen years (during which time I went back for an MBA at Harvard), and then moved into our Competitive Intelligence unit, where I head up the Product Intelligence team.

I live in the trendy suburb in the Detroit area with a great guy I met by chance in the middle of 2001. He's a registered nurse, and very good with plants and things (which I am not).