Julian Bashore

Julian Bashore
Julian Bashore, 2013
Born	Julian Michael Bashore (1972-09-04) September 4, 1972 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Residence	Tokyo, Japan Nagoya, Japan
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	President / Representative Director, Nippon MacDermid Co., Ltd.
Employer	MacDermid, Inc.
Political party	Republican
Board member of	Japan Electronics Packaging and Circuits Association (JPCA),[1] Nagoya International School
Spouse(s)	Mari Bashore (m. 2002)[2]
Children	1

Julian Bashore (ⁱ/dʒuljənˈbeɪʃɔːr/ born September 4, 1972) is an American business man who has managed the Japanese operations of multiple multinational companies. He is the President / Representative Director of Nippon MacDermid Co., Ltd. and the former Representative Director of Bodycote Japan K.K.^[3] Bashore is recognized as one of the few Americans to take a leadership position in the Japanese business sector.^[4] As such, he is regarded as an expert in Japanese business.^[5]

Early life

Bashore was born in San Francisco and grew up in Pennsylvania, near Reading. He attended Tulpehocken High School. While a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he spent a year in overseas study at the Stanford Japan Center where he studied the Japanese language, culture, politics and economy at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.^[6][7]

Career

Bashore speaking to a crowd of executives in Japan in 2009

Bashore received his business degree in 1995 and accepted a position with PPG Industries, an American manufacturer of coatings and chemicals. In that position, he worked as a sales engineer to supply paint to Japanese automakers. He worked for PPG for thirteen years, nine of them in the company’s subsidiary in Nagoya, Japan.^[8]

In 2007, a headhunter recruited him to join Bodycote plc,^[6] and, in 2008, he was hired by that firm to establish a base for the company in Japan. He made the unorthodox decision to set up the Japanese branch of Bodycote in Nagoya, rather than Tokyo where most multinationals establish foreign offices. Bashore considered Nagoya the superior location because of its central location, good access to transportation, and lower prices than Tokyo.^[8][9] He was employed in that position at least in part because of his fluency in Japanese.

In 2013, he became the President / Representative Director of Nippon MacDermid Co., Ltd. He was subsequently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Japan Electronics Packaging and Circuits Association at their annual general meeting in 2015.^[10][11] At that time, he was the first MacDermid employee selected as a trustee.^[12]

Bashore presenting to clients in 2014

Awards and recognition

• In 2009, Bashore won the Leader of the Year Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Chubu Chapter.^[13]
• In 2010, Bashore was named a Next-Era CEO in Asia by the Japan Times.^[6]
• In 2011, Bashore served on the program committee at the Hot Isostatic Pressing Conference.^[14]

Appearances

• In 2010, Bashore served as a Master of Ceremonies for the 5th Annual ACCJ/TJCS Champagne Ball and Awards Evening.^[15]
• In 2014, Bashore was a panelist at the Japanese Cross-border M&A Panel Discussion, sponsored by The Mergermarket Group, Allen & Overy and PricewaterhouseCoopers.^[16]

References

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