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ALEX LEE, 39
President
OXO International
WHEN ALEX LEE FIRST LAID EYES ON A 4-year-old housewares company with four employees, he was sure of one thing. "I knew I would never work there," he recalls.
That was five years ago. Back then, Mr. Lee, who had already achieved a modicum of fame as the designer of a teakettle for architect Michael Graves that became a yuppie icon,...