Oakland man takes six-figure pay cut to help the needy

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Founding chief financial officer of Restoration Hardware. CFO of Safeway.com and Ask Jeeves. Controller of Home Express.

What would lead a high-powered executive to leave the corporate world and its dizzyingly high salaries to join an Oakland nonprofit that brings education, clean water and health care to impoverished villages?

"The first time I visited Vietnam, in 2006, I saw sick children with swollen bellies and skinny arms at a clinic in the village of Phu Quoc. Four hundred people stood in line all day to see a doctor," said Oakland's Tom Low, 53. "At East Meets West Foundation, I can help people like them. This is much more rewarding."