[Sponsored Article] Just a few years ago, two young expatriate Thai engineers were building their careers on opposite sides of the U.S. In California, Varayuth “James” Yenbamroong was heading a satellite systems team at aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman. In Boston, Aukrit Unahalekhaka was pursuing graduate studies at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology after spells working in Silicon Valley with Cisco Systems and as an advanced systems and technology consultant for professional services giant Accenture. Both men’s future prospects in a country where they had studied and worked for more than a decade could have been assured. Instead,...