How one foreign-born leader is leading transformation in Houston
One case in point is J.J. Naoki, president and CEO of Satake USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Satake Corp. of Japan, which is the No. 1 manufacturer in Japan’s rice milling industry and a maker of food processing machinery. Born in Tokyo, Naoki came to Alabama to establish a new subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., and in 1998 moved to Houston to lead Satake.