Musa ShihadehMusa Shihadeh, a Palestinian, worked in the Kuwaiti oil fields and saved money to enable him to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and he later received his master's degree in chemical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After servin in the US Army in 1958, he started his Plastics Products Co. In Jersey City. The company was later acquired by Helene Curtis in 1960 and was moved to Detroit where he met the love of his life and his second wife, Mary Bell. A year later, he moved back to Paterson, New Jersey, and started a new company where he became highly successful. He also licensed his patents to several international companies, and he accumulated substantial sums of money. He then merged his company with Carboline Inc., a public corporation located in St. Louis, and moved to Missouri. After two years, he moved back to New Jersey and started his third company. Read More Read Less