When McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Paterson Street in Hong Kong, my then girlfriend, who became my wife and I were there with a McConga line of people including Commercial Radio disc jockey Mike Souza along with the always attractive Rebecca Ng. Rebecca’s husband and co-owner of the franchise in Hong Kong, Daniel Ng, was busy mingling with guests and cutting various ribbons. Being Creative Director with McDonald’s advertising agency Glenn Graphic, which evolved in

The only person I knew who could read the tea leaves and truly understand the China market was my friend and client, Daniel Ng. A former NASA engineer with a PhD in engineering, he somehow ended up opening the first McDonald’s in Hong Kong by owning the franchise in the city. A Visionary Against the Odds Despite the naysayers warning that Chinese people only ate rice and citing Burger King's decline in Hong Kong, Daniel sailed past them, guided by incredible self-belief. When

............................ Samuel became Sam and started something I termed in Billboard Canto Rock When Canto Rock became soft and...