Walter Donway

 August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.”  That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself