GBC Bancorp Chairman and CEO Li-Pei Wu moved from the deprivation of the Taiwan countryside to reach the heights of L.A.'s banking community
Li-Pei Wu remembers walking to school barefoot as a child in Changhwa, the "very, very poor" community on the coast of Taiwan where he was raised.
The village is a farming town, even though the land is too salty for most crops. Wu's family members were land owners, and leased their land to others, who could grow sweet potatoes, peanuts and ...