Former exec reborn with new venture
Former exec reborn with new venture
The thrill of doing business was gone for Stanley E. Freimuth when about two years ago he left Fujifilm USA Inc. and an industry radically changed and reduced by the advance of digital photography.
He left “on very good terms,” he said last week, and still has a good relationship with Fuji, where he rose through the ranks in a 23-year career to become the multinational corporation’s first non-Japanese chief operating officer. However, it was time to move on, though not into a retired executive’s afterlife of endless golf.
“I played a ridiculous amount of golf for two years to the point where it’s out of my system now,” Freimuth said with a broad smile.
Wearing a tie that is no longer required in his daily business uniform, he sat at a conference table in the new offices of Tracer Imaging in White Plains. Freimuth’s position as board chairman and executive director does not come with the phone-answering secretary and flight upgrades of his last post as senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Fuji.
Working outside a major corporation, “You have to be much more efficient, actually, to get things done, I find,” he said. “There are a lot of things one takes for granted in a large corporate setting.”
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009