The person I am interviewing is Dmitri
Krassotkine. He is an immigrant from Moscow, Russia, who moved here in
1992 to go to school at Arizona State University. I first met Dmitri
four or five years ago through my husband at a Phoenix Suns game. They work together at American Express. I believe Dmitri
is a project manager there. We have since met with him several times
with him and his wife Nina, who is also Russian. The interview was
arranged by my husband. For a meeting place we decided on the sushi
restaurant RA at Kierland Commons in Scottsdale. It was just Dmitri, my
husband and I. Dmitri is very entertaining to talk to. He likes to go
out and go to parties, and is very interested in music and Italian
designers. He travels to Europe often and always has good stories of
his journeys. He seems to prefer the Mediterranean, visiting the south
of France and Spain. It was very easy to interview him, and it did not
take much to get him to open up and talk.