8Kevin L. Rakin: Restarting a Failed Business at Advanced BioHealing

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

—Mark Caine

Images How did you get to be the person you are? What’s your story?

Let me take you back to growing up in the 1960s and 1970s in South Africa, a small country at the bottom of the world. My South African childhood took place in a very protected and closed kind of environment. I had a calm, nurturing family life. We always thought everything was bigger and better outside South Africa. In addition, of course, we had huge sociological problems in the ...

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