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'I Can Survive Cancer, I Can Go Learn How to Run a Business': John Ustica on Unknowns and Opportunities

October 17, 2023 WashingtonExec Season 1 Episode 15
'I Can Survive Cancer, I Can Go Learn How to Run a Business': John Ustica on Unknowns and Opportunities
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Humble Beginnings
'I Can Survive Cancer, I Can Go Learn How to Run a Business': John Ustica on Unknowns and Opportunities
Oct 17, 2023 Season 1 Episode 15
WashingtonExec

For John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, his story starts with a medical scare on a soccer field in the first grade. An abdominal pain later proved to be a tumor on his kidney, and he'd spend 65 weeks in chemotherapy, endure several surgeries and visit doctors for years to come for checkups. Ustica fully recovered, but this experience (and the restrictions that came with it) taught him a thing or two about saying "why not" to life opportunities. 

Tune in to hear how Ustica's life progressed thereafter, from academic challenges to landing in the energy industry and scoring his first management job at just 26 years old. Ustica shares how he progressed in Siemens and worked his way up, and the many positions, industries and locations the company would take him through along the way. 

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For John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, his story starts with a medical scare on a soccer field in the first grade. An abdominal pain later proved to be a tumor on his kidney, and he'd spend 65 weeks in chemotherapy, endure several surgeries and visit doctors for years to come for checkups. Ustica fully recovered, but this experience (and the restrictions that came with it) taught him a thing or two about saying "why not" to life opportunities. 

Tune in to hear how Ustica's life progressed thereafter, from academic challenges to landing in the energy industry and scoring his first management job at just 26 years old. Ustica shares how he progressed in Siemens and worked his way up, and the many positions, industries and locations the company would take him through along the way.