Boonsithi Chokwatana is the chairman of Saha Group, Thailand's leading consumer products conglomerate.
This is part 1 of a 30-part series and the latest installment of Nikkei's "My Personal History" ("Watashi no Rirekisho") autobiographies, the first of which was published in 1956. Since then, a variety of world-changing individuals have written or dictated their life stories for publication.
