Ray,
I had the great pleasure to already meet Victor once before in Singapore, Summer 2009.
There we had a wonderful conversation about...
welding! :-)
In particular we spoke about the strange situation which is also well-known as 'being hooked' to welding. He told me that he's with Lincoln for 40+ (?) years - hope my memory serves correct - and this says a lot about a company. In other words, he must feel very well there.
What I was extremely impressed by however was, that he saw me in Essen at this meeting, and it really seemed to me as he could remember me.
And as one pursues all the loads of loads of appointments he has to take during his AWS presidentship, this is really impressive. And as I said. He is very likeable! :-)
All tbe best,
Stephan