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Stephen: What Indian needs is to be treated right ... its past needs to be respected, its future recognized. Our goal is to build high-quality, beautifully designed motorcycles that fulfills the promise of the brand. Stephen holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Classics from Magdalen College at Oxford University. He also has a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business. Chairman Stephen marches to a somewhat unique entrepreneurial drumbeat. One dedicated to removing revered industrial icons from the endangered-species list and restoring them to glory and profitability. Today, six years after acquiring bankrupt Chris-Craft Industries -- like Indian, a company with a century-long tradition of producing mechanically advanced, beautifully crafted cruisers -- and rebuilding it into one of the world's leading powerboat companies, Julius is totally committed to Indian's long-term success. "Restarting businesses is always hard work, but immensely satisfying," he says. "For me, this is a ten- , fifteen- , twenty-year project. Brands such as Indian were not created overnight and they can't be re-created overnight. Testimony to the power of the brand, and to the greatness of the founders who established it, is that after 50 years of being dormant the brand name is still a household word among motorcycle riders."The only way we will establish credibility is by designing and making high-quality motorcycles backed by a caring dealer network. The tracks we leave will be no more and no less than the quality of what we build. " | 