Ken Natori Discusses The Natori Company’s Growth Strategy, Running a Family Business

Running a multimillion dollar business that your mother founded and continues to be the driving force behind is no easy feat, as president of The Natori Company Ken Natori can attest. But 10 years after he gave up a Wall Street job in institutional equity sales, the Stanford Business School graduate has no regrets about joining the company as president. While his mother tends to be in-the-moment, impulsive and eternally optimistic, Ken Natori is more cautious, realistic, planned and calculated. “We really are very much a yin and yang, which is good actually,” he said. At 70, his mother could not be more passionate about everything she does, and some of that drive is genetic. “My mother’s father came from a very poor family in the Philippines and worked his way up to build a successful construction company. After he died, my grandmother now runs that company at 92 years old. That work ethic, passion and constant energy just got passed down to my mother. Whether it’s working here or practicing piano, she just put that passion into everything she does,” Ken Natori said. “My mother could not be more passionate about everything she does. It’s not easy work.” Internationally distributed in 20 countries,

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