Bushnell

David Pearsall Bushnell was an American entrepreneur. Mr. Bushnell founded his company, Bushnell, in 1948. At that time, binoculars were largely an item of luxury. Through a strategy of importation from foreign manufacturers who provided optics to his specifications, Bushnell made binoculars... widely available to middle-class Americans for the first time. As of 2006, Bushnell Optical remains the leading source of binoculars in the United States. Bushnell died just a week before his 92nd birthday from non-Hodgkins lymphoma at his home in Laguna Beach, California. He had studied engineering at Caltech before leaving to take a student-style trip around the world during the Depression, carrying letters of recommendation from Robert Millikan, the head of Caltech, and Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State. Bushnell then finished university with a degree in foreign trade at the University of Southern California and started his own import-export business soon after. In 1948, on an extended honeymoon with his second wife who was also in foreign trade, he bought some binoculars in Japan.
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Paul J. Liska is executive vice president and chief financial officer for Motorola, Inc. He is responsible for company-wide treasury, tax, audit,... financial and managerial reporting, forecasting and planning, internal accounting controls, investor relations, real estate and the Motorola Credit Corporation.
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