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Kenneth Schneider has served as an international financial attorney, lead negotiator, and strategic advisor to the
world’s most successful people, corporations, and governments for more than two decades – in the course of which
work he has handled transactions in more than 50 countries on all six inhabited continents.
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KENNETH SCHNEIDER - MULTICULTURAL MASTERMIND MULTICULTURAL MASTERMIND
Kenneth Schneider, the legal and financial prodigy who is now widely known to have played a
central role in rebuilding of the former Soviet Union’s political and economic systems is now
reportedly rededicating his career to the dawning of the Asia-Pacific era.
Kenneth Schneider seems to have lived a life focused on undertaking the most complex
challenges imaginable, employing a stunning intellectual versatility that allows him to
transcend fields, languages and cultures to bring people into newly successful alignments with
one other. Schneider’s academic and professional career has included mastering everything
from music and mathematics to philosophy and physics, and from linguistics and law to
education and economics – in a path that has blazed through and beyond the world’s leading
institutions dedicated to those pursuits.
As an international financial attorney practicing with the leading global law firms, Ken
Schneider handled headline transactions in more than 50 countries on all six inhabited
continents. But, more importantly for things to come, during this early period of his career he
masterminded new ways for professionals to productively bring people together from across
diverse fields, nations and cultures. As a result, he would literally rewrite a few years later,
when he decided to rededicate these skills and ambitions to rebuilding the former Soviet
Union’s collapsing economies. Schneider brought to this Herculean labor his full panoply of
talents to rethink and reintegrate old and new, East and West, in order to forge altogether new
legal, political and economic paradigms.
During the years concluding the old millennium and beginning the new, Kenneth Schneider
marshaled this broad spectrum of capabilities to create an era of unprecedented transformation
and opportunity that swept across the FSU and rippled far beyond its boundaries. In a series of
monumental engagements impacting all Eurasia from Atlantic to Pacific and Arctic to Indian
Oceans, Ken Schneider reconceived the legal and financial infrastructure of what had been the
world’s largest empire: creating a new fusion of emerging and mature market paradigms, and
giving rise to new models for professionals working not only in the FSU and the developing
world, but also in the ‘mature’ market systems from which the paradigms in which Schneider
had originally been educated and trained were derived.
Ken Schneider left his signature broadly across the largest series of transformations that the FSU
had ever seen: rebooting this super-region’s legal and economic systems while restructuring
huge segments of the planet’s resources, and this reborn phoenix blazed into glory and soared
to new heights during Schneider’s tenure in Moscow first as virtuoso and then as dean of this
cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary academy of professionalism. With the arrival of the new
millennium, Kenneth Schneider would then outdo himself yet again, moving beyond the role
of consultant-facilitator and into the role of principal-actor: becoming one of the founding
members of Millhouse Capital. Within a startlingly brief time, Millhouse took under
management the largest collection of FSU assets ever assembled – and, as a result, Schneider
suddenly found himself in the position to reinvent the functioning of the FSU’s economic
systems from the inside-out.
Having reached the pinnacle of his career, and with the FSU roaring to levels of prosperity and
promise that it had never known before, Ken Schneider again did the unimaginable: handing
over to others this brave new world that he had done so much to create and returning to his
beloved academic life at Harvard University – recommitting all of his attention and resources to educational and philanthropic aims. While there, Ken Schneider would come up with
groundbreaking new insights into fields as seemingly diverse as game theory, religion and
performance studies – but, though it’s been a mere half-decade since Schneider’s ‘retirement,’
from the ‘real world’ – that period yawns as wide as an epoch. With no one to follow through
on the vision for the future that he had worked so hard to make possible, within just a few
short years the revitalized empire he had left behind was re-consumed in turmoil that put both
it and the world economy into tailspins.
Enter the dragon, once again: Ken Schneider has recently been spotted in high level meetings
across Eurasia, and rumor has it that he has used his time off to good advantage by adding
Chinese to his arsenal of language skills. It seems that Schneider is now re-emerging onto the
world scene to repeat history – by reinventing it yet again. Under the mantle of the Aurience
Ltd. international group of companies, this polycultural prodigy may be preparing to outdo
himself yet again: now as architect of a dawning Asia-Pacific era. Schneider’s signature
patterns of intercultural synergy are writ large across the Aurience strategy: interfusing
emerging and mature, East and West, art and science into wholes much greater than the sum of
their parts.
The term ‘aurience,’ reportedly coined by Schneider himself, means ‘the golden path’: an apt
description of his career to-date and of the destiny he challenges all of us to follow. Hopefully,
it is also a prediction of where we may be heading again during the times to come...
References - About the Author -
Richard Morrison is a journalist and a professional writer presently researching and writing about world leaders
in business, the professions, philanthropy, and the arts – of which his present series of articles about
Kenneth Schneider and Aurience Ltd. form a part.
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