alt obits guy 3,374 Posted July 15, 2020 Neil Montefiore, former CEO of Singaporean telecommunications giants StarHub and M1, has died. He was 67. https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/neil-montefiore-former-chief-executive-of-starhub-and-m1-has-died-aged-67?Echobox=1594808519#utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=Twitter 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted July 27, 2020 Edmund (Ed) Ansin, a billionaire television news pioneer and owner of Boston stations WHDH and WLVI, has died. He was 84. Ansin's business acumen came from his father, who bought a Florida station in the early 1960s. https://whdh.com/news/loss-of-a-leader-whdh-owner-ed-ansin-passes-away-at-84/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted July 28, 2020 American Television executive and president of CNN Reese Schonfeld died at 88 years: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,569 Posted July 28, 2020 24 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said: American Television executive and president of CNN Reese Schonfeld died at 88 years: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html More importantly, founder of the Food Network Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted July 28, 2020 36 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said: American Television executive and president of CNN Reese Schonfeld died at 88 years: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html massive death! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted July 29, 2020 Irene Pollin, a former co-owner of the Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics, has died. She was 96. Pollin was the widow of Abe Pollin, who'd bought the Chicago Zephyrs NBA team in 1963, moved them to Baltimore and renamed them the Bullets. They later moved to Washington and, later still, were renamed the Wizards. In 1974, she was active in the founding of the NHL’s Washington Capitals. They won the Stanley Cup in 2018. https://wtop.com/local-sports/2020/07/irene-pollin-former-co-owner-of-caps-wizards-mystics-dies-at-96/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted August 2, 2020 Kirk Perron, the founder of Jamba Juice, died June 20th of cardiac arrest. He was 56. News of his death was made public July 31st. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/07/31/jamba-juice-founder-kirk-perron-dies-at-56.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted August 13, 2020 Sumner Redstone, part owner of CBS and Viacom, died age 97. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,703 Posted August 13, 2020 Marcel Adams, Canadian property developer, billionaire and Holocaust survivor, dead at 100. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,994 Posted August 20, 2020 British furniture designer Christopher Guy Harrison dead of lung cancer at 59: https://design-middleeast.com/designer-christopher-guy-harrison-passed-away-at-the-age-of-59/ A known name here and there. Unique pick in the DDP. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,084 Posted August 27, 2020 On 20/08/2020 at 10:37, gcreptile said: British furniture designer Christopher Guy Harrison dead of lung cancer at 59: https://design-middleeast.com/designer-christopher-guy-harrison-passed-away-at-the-age-of-59/ A known name here and there. Unique pick in the DDP. Telegraph Obit for Christopher Guy Harrison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/08/27/christopher-guy-harrison-designer-deluxe-furniture-found-hotels/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted August 29, 2020 John Courtenay, the former owner of Carlisle United Football Club, has died. He was 70. https://www.carlisleunited.co.uk/news/2020/august/a-fond-farewell-to-former-owner-john-courtenay/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted August 31, 2020 Osamu Masuko, the former chairman of Mitsubishi Motors, has died. He was 71. He'd stepped down in early August because of health reasons. He was also a former CEO, stepping down from that role in 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-31/former-mitsubishi-motors-chairman-osamu-masuko-dies-at-71?utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,491 Posted August 31, 2020 11 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: Osamu Masuko, the former chairman of Mitsubishi Motors, has died. He was 71. He'd stepped down in early August because of health reasons. He was also a former CEO, stepping down from that role in 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-31/former-mitsubishi-motors-chairman-osamu-masuko-dies-at-71?utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter About 10 DDP players sigh and each remove him from their "sneaky unique pick" spot on the shortlist... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted September 12, 2020 Richard Smith, a former Chairman of Neiman Marcus Group, has died. He was 95. Smith had a long history as a shrewd businessman and a philanthropist. https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/richard-smith-neiman-marcus-general-cinema-1234580386/?utm_campaign=Twitter-WWD&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 224 Posted September 20, 2020 Donald Kendall, former head of PepsiCo, dead at 99. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,491 Posted September 20, 2020 44 minutes ago, adrian0719 said: Donald Kendall, former head of PepsiCo, dead at 99. Came up with Diet Pepsi, told Nixon to bomb Chile. Difficult to work out which of these is the bigger evil, tbh. 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted October 18, 2020 James Johnson, the former CEO of Fannie Mae, who 'transformed the mortgage giant into a political powerhouse' in the 1990s only to have it be a harbinger in the 2008 financial crisis, has died. He was 76. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-a-johnson-executive-who-transformed-fannie-mae-into-political-powerhouse-dies-at-76/2020/10/18/48dd95a8-0d88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 23, 2020 Retired former president of Petersen Aluminum Corp. John Paleczny passed away on October 18. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,703 Posted October 25, 2020 On 21/06/2015 at 23:49, DevonDeathTrip said: Samsung CEO Lee Kun-Hee, is being treated at the same hospital where there has been a recent outbreak of the MERS virus. This blog states LK-H has contracted the disease and boldly predicts/wildly speculates that he will be dead within 3 weeks. https://samsung64.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/8888/ Took a few years but Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung (1987–2008 and 2010–2020), billionaire and two-time convicted fraudster is dead at 78. New York Times obit Independent obit 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,374 Posted October 26, 2020 David Braley, the owner of the Canadian Football League's BC Lions and former owner of both the CFL's Hamilton Tiger Cats (1989 to 1990) and Toronto Argonauts (2010 to 2015), has died. He was 79. Braley was also a member of the Canadian Senate from May 2010 to November 2013). https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-david-braley-dead-79-obituary-1.5777355 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,994 Posted November 2, 2020 Vladimir Marugov, Russian oligarch, and nicknamed "The Sausage King" has been killed in a sauna with a crossbow, because it's Russia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54782634 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted November 3, 2020 Aviation pioneer Max Ward, most famous for founding the Canadian airline Wardair in 1953, died at 98 years: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/max-ward-obituary-1.5788258 He was a member of both Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,419 Posted November 13, 2020 John Hays of Hays Travel dead. Recently bought up all the Thomas Cook stores when they went bust and kept as many of the staff on as possible. Obituaries: Daily Star, Daily Mirror, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Sun, BBC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,084 Posted November 13, 2020 Founder of Hays Travel, John Hays reportedly collapses and dies at work: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
