James Vance:
CLASS OF 1972
Aiea High SchoolClass of 1972
Aiea, HI
James's Story
Jim Vance began his career at a very early age on Kaupakulua Fruit Farm on the slopes of Haleakala Maui. Starting as an indentured laborer at age six, Jim¿s father assigned him to harvest his prized lychee fruits transplanted from China. Upon observing that more lychees were being consumed than harvested, Jim¿s father quickly promoted him to Weed Killer. Jim majored in International Business at the University of Hawaii followed by six years as an Army armor commander across the country and in South Korea. Perhaps due to Jim's half Chinese ethnicity, the Koreans welcomed him and his unit often rushing out to the streets to wave at them until they saw Jim taking his tanks through strategic short cuts in their cabbage fields. Following that episode Jim was quickly promoted again and asked to join a team of officers on the Army's Training Board to redesign the way the Army trains. After obtaining an MBA from the University of Tex...Expand for more
as at Austin, Jim got involved in the travel/tour business with World Express Tours. Nine years at Dell as a marketing manager for new enterprise services, Jim was later sent to train Dell personnel in Mexico, Canada, Europe, India and the Philippines. He now works for the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin--a leader in research, understanding and application of technology commercialization and technology- based venture creation. The IC2 Institute¿s Global Commercialization Group works with foreign governments and academic and business entities to use technology commercialization and venture creation to drive economic growth, currently in India, Hungary, Chile, South Korea, Egypt and Kuwait. Jim has been married 9.5 years to the former Sharon Solomon from Grand Isle, Louisiana. He has one son, Jimmy. Jim's long term goal is to return to Kaupakulua, Maui and continue some of that weed killing he's so good at.
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