Crain's Detroit Business, March 29th, 1999
SELWYN ISAKOW CEO Oxford Investment Group Inc. Bloomfield Hills Country of origin: South Africa
Selwyn Isakow doesn't ask why he left his native South Africa at age 25 for an uncertain life in the United States.
"From the moment I arrived in the U.S., I just felt I belonged here," said Isakow, 47, the founder and chairman of Oxford Investment Group Inc., a private-equity and corporate development company with total revenue of nearly $2 billion. "I wanted to participate in business in the most exciting country in the world."
After arriving in the United States, Isakow studied at the Univer...
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