Ogata, Mitsuo

Born and raised in Japan, Mitsuo Ogata moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. Alone in a foreign country, he set out to make the best of himself with an American education, earning a BS in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, followed by an MS in operations research from Columbia University. After working two years at the Cummins Engine Company, he returned to Columbia to study for a PhD in his field, but ended up choosing to leave academia behind him with a Master of Philosophy, instead.

Ogata's professional career also includes TWA, as well as Rohm and Haas; bu