In 1949 his wife, Wong Ay Chuan, and five of his six sons moved to the US to join General Mow in Washington, DC, where they lived in diplomatic housing.
In the early 1950s, Pang Tsu was involved in a highly public embezzlement scandal that pitted him against the Chiang Kai-shek government in Taiwan.
[5][6][7] After earning his Ph.D., Mow spent the years from 1967 to 1969 working for Litton Industries as a program manager before forming his first business in 1969.
He remained on as chairman and CEO, but resigned after the new owners accused him of concealing $2 million worth of losses.
Later, in 1988, a California court cleared Mow of the accusations and found that Cutler-Hammer had actually been responsible for concealing the sales loss.
In 1996 Mow relocated the company's Hong Kong office into a special economic zone in China.
Mow made it clear that he wanted to enter the Chinese market and set a goal of establishing 1,000 retail outlets in the country.
[17] His oldest brother, Harry, first worked for the RAND Corporation and later formed Century West Development Inc.[18] As CEO and chairman of the board, he led the development of many real estate projects in the greater Los Angeles area and across the country.