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Leadership: SmartShape Design's Mike Maczuzak

Published: September 1, 2011 6:00 am ET
Updated: September 1, 2011 12:00 am ET

Mike Maczuzak, president of SmartShape Design Corp. in Cleveland, shares with Plastics News the lessons he learned in setting up a U.S.-Chinese design team. Getting engineers involved in design and learning how to manage time zone differences with a multinational design staff were but a few of the challenges he faced.

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