Background
Bashore was born in San Francisco and grew up in Pennsylvania, near Reading.
Bashore was born in San Francisco and grew up in Pennsylvania, near Reading.
He attended Tulpehocken High School. While a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he spent a year in overseas study at the Stanford Japan Center where he studied the Japanese language, culture, politics and economy at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.
He is the President / Representative Director of Nippon MacDermid Company, Limited. and the former Representative Director of Bodycote Japan K.K. Bashore is recognized as one of the few Americans to take a leadership position in the Japanese business sector. As such, he is regarded as an expert in Japanese business. Bashore received his business degree in 1995 and accepted a position with Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Industries, an American manufacturer of coatings and chemicals.
In that position, he worked as a sales engineer to supply paint to Japanese automakers.
He worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company for thirteen years, nine of them in the company’s subsidiary in Nagoya, Japan. In 2007, a headhunter recruited him to join Bodycote plc, and, in 2008, he was hired by that firm to establish a base for the company in Japan.
He made the unorthodox decision to set up the Japanese branch of Bodycote in Nagoya, rather than Tokyo where most multinationals establish foreign offices. Bashore considered Nagoya the superior location because of its central location, good access to transportation, and lower prices than Tokyo.
He was employed in that position at least in part because of his fluency in Japanese.
In 2013, he became the President / Representative Director of Nippon MacDermid Company, Limited. He was subsequently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Japan Electronics Packaging and Circuits Association at their annual general meeting in 2015. At that time, he was the first MacDermid employee selected as a trustee.
In 2014, Bashore was a panelist at the Japanese Cross-border M&A Panel Discussion, sponsored by The Mergermarket Group, Allen & Overy and PricewaterhouseCoopers.