Rod Jones, president and chief executive of CSL Group, had no early ambitions to follow his father into shipping.

“I was a biology major in college and mostly wanted to spread my wings,” he says. “When I graduated, I really didn’t know what I was going to do.”

Despite at one point having ambitions to be a doctor, his grades weren’t good enough for medical school “and back then there weren’t many opportunities for non-medical biologists”.

“I