Marcus Chen

Marcus Chen is a global marketer in the pharmaceutical industry, an author, a success coach, and an entrepreneur. He developed a keen interest in world cultures and languages after he moved to Manila with his family as a young teenager and he enrolled at the International School with classmates from nearly 100 countries. After he left the Philippines in the 80s for the U.S., he continued his language studies and pursued his MBA at THUNDERBIRD, a top global management school. Since grad school, he often traveled internationally for work and pleasure and has now visited more than 50 countries in five continents, lived in 7 of them across Asia, Europe, North and Central America, and he has studied 9 languages.

While on a 3-year expat assignment in Tokyo, he wrote Square Watermelons and Unexpected Gifts, two books in his first memoir series about his time in Japan, at the encouragement of friends and family who enjoyed reading his blogs about Japan while he lived there. He lives with his two boys in Boston and intends to keep exploring far corners of the world when he can and to record his voyages as he adds more destinations in the coming years.