 With that, he traveled to South Korea to work with the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee, working on marketing sponsorships and coaching the Korean national rowing team.Upon his return from Korea, he graduated in 1989 from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, California, with a master's degree in business administration focused on public and non-profit management.At Stanford he was struck by a professor’s admonition that the same skills that will make you a success in the for-profit world also are desperately needed in the not-for-profit world.