Reza Satchu says ‘maximum discomfort’ is the way to learn.
The unlikely professor emigrated to Canada from Kenya in 1976 with his parents and brother, Asif, and grew up in a one-bedroom Scarborough apartment. Armed with a fierce work ethic for which he credits his hard-working parents — his mother a secretary, his father a real-estate agent — he headed to New York after graduating with a BA in economics from McGill University and “applied at a hundred places.”
He finally persuaded Merrill Lynch to hire him as a financial analys, and says his first day at work provided a lesson he won’t forget and one he aims to impart to his students: While the education in the United States and Canada is on a par, the goals and expectations are not.
He took up the challenge, and hit Harvard Business School for an MBA, then entered the world of private equity. In 1999, he and his brother co-founded Suppliermarket.com Inc., a business-to-business website for industrial manufacturers that raised $60-million from investors, including KKR and Onex. They sold the 225-employee company to a competitor for more than $1-billion (U.S.) in 2000. In 2003, he moved with his lawyer wife, Marion Annau, and their three small children back to Toronto, where he’s thrilled they “won’t be run over by yellow taxi cabs every time they leave the house.”
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