Guest guest Posted December 11, 2015 Guo Guangchang gone missing http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2015/12/10/report-says-chinas-warren-buffett-billionaire-guo-guangchang-has-gone-missing/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted December 15, 2015 Willi Betz, founder of the transportation company with his name has died at 88: http://www.swp.de/reutlingen/lokales/reutlingen/Willi-Betz-Mit-88-Jahren-gestorben;art5674,3588285(link in german) Notable because you almost cannot avoid their vehicles on any central european highway: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 45 Posted December 15, 2015 Lillian Vernon, Creator of a Bustling Catalog Business, Dies at 88: "Ms. Vernon, who died in a hospital, lived in Manhattan. In addition to her sons, she is survived by her husband, Paolo Martino, whom she married in 1998. Her marriage to Sam Hochberg ended in divorce, as did her second marriage, to Robert Katz.Her marital history may have influenced what she once called her worst-selling catalog item: a pillow that saucily read, “A woman who is looking for a husband has never had one.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/lillian-vernon-creator-of-a-bustling-catalog-business-dies-at-88.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted December 16, 2015 In sad Sotheby’s-related news, Charles Moffett, former curator at several major museums and former director of the Phillips Collection, who subsequently served as the Sothby's EVP and vice chairman of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art (1998 to 2014), died Thursday of pancreatic cancer. Should be cross-posted in Art's Sake thread, as this guy really the epitome of covering two threads equally well. I chose to post here. SC http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2015/12/sothebys-to-cut-some-80-positions-charles-moffett-its-former-executive-vp-dies.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted December 20, 2015 London property developer/real estate mogul Harry Hyams dead at 87: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12060129/Property-developer-Harry-Hyams-has-died-aged-87.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted December 22, 2015 Yoshikazu Hanawa, the former Nissan Motor Co. president and CEO who negotiated an alliance with Renault SA in a 1999 agreement that rescued the indebted Japanese automaker, has died. He was 81. SC http://www.autonews.com/article/20151222/OEM02/151229978?template=mobile&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted January 6, 2016 Robert H.B. Baldwin, a Wall Street maverick who presided over the transformation of Morgan Stanley from a prestigious but staid old investment bank into a modern, competitive financial services corporation in the 1970s and early ′80s, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Skillman, N.J. He was 95. SC http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/business/robert-hb-baldwin-transformer-of-morgan-stanley-dies-at-95.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted January 7, 2016 Definitely a CEO in trouble. Valeant Pharmaceuticals has named former finance chief Howard Schiller as interim CEO while the troubled drug company's chairman and chief executive remains hospitalized with severe pneumonia. Valeant said Tuesday that J. Michael Pearson is still on medical leave, and it did not know when he would return. SC http://m.mcdowellnews.com/news/business/ap/valeant-names-howard-schiller-as-interim-ceo/article_8d88618e-d41d-597e-baf0-49ce18588ee8.html?mode=jqm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted January 18, 2016 Sumner Redstone's health mystery reaches the Guardian in an article that makes the case for his inclusion in the Death List, including the cute remark that Redstone believed that "he's not going to die": http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/18/sumner-redstone-health-viacom-cbs-lawsuit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 45 Posted January 23, 2016 Sumner Redstone ordered to undergo mental health exam. "Mr. Redstone is in rapidly failing health." http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/23/news/companies/sumner-redstone-mental-exam-viacom/index.html? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,938 Posted January 24, 2016 One of the Guinness clan... Jennifer Guinness at 78. Was kidnapped in 1986 and dies almost exactly a year after the death of one of the perpetrators . http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/jennifer-guinness-victim-of-a-notorious-1986-kidnapping-that-lasted-eight-days-has-died-34390718.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted January 24, 2016 J. Stewart Bryan III passed away Saturday at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital (Richmond, VA). He was 77 years old. His death resulted from complications related to neck injuries sustained in a fall on January 15. Bryan was part a Richmond family that produced four generations of media entrepreneurs. Bryan himself spent 50 years in the industry.... He was named president and publisher of the Times-Dispatch and The News Leader on Jan. 1, 1978, and was elected chairman, president and CEO of Media General, Inc., on May 15, 1990. He stepped down as CEO on July 1, 2005 and continued to serve as chairman of the board until his death. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted January 25, 2016 One of the Guinness clan... Jennifer Guinness at 78. Was kidnapped in 1986 and dies almost exactly a year after the death of one of the perpetrators . http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/jennifer-guinness-victim-of-a-notorious-1986-kidnapping-that-lasted-eight-days-has-died-34390718.html I was starting a list of famous people that had been kidnapped a couple of years ago when it was the 40th anniversary of Patty Hearst being kidnapped. I mislaid that list, but I remember Jennifer Guinness being on that list. Perhaps I'll just start from the list from the beginning rather than try to find the notebook I had written it down in. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted February 14, 2016 John J. Riccardo, the former accountant nicknamed The Flamethrower who rose to become chairman and CEO of Chrysler and later helped recruit Lee Iacocca to become his successor as the company’s fortunes quickly soured in the late 1970s, died on Saturday. He was 91. SC http://www.autonews.com/article/20160214/OEM02/160219923?template=mobile&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted February 26, 2016 Biotech entrepreneuer and philantropist Alfred E. Mann dead at 90: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-alfred-mann-obit-20160226-story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,469 Posted March 1, 2016 Jim Kimsey co-founder and CEO of AOL has died at the age of 76 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted March 4, 2016 Bram Goldsmith, former CEO of CNB, dead at 93.SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted March 4, 2016 Found this from January: The chairman and CEO of Cerner Corporation informed clients, shareholders and colleagues on Monday of his cancer diagnosis. Neal Patterson, 66, said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he was diagnosed with a soft tissue cancer just after the new year. His physician has told him that the type of cancer he has is treatable and curable (oh I love when they say it), and there is no evidence of cancer elsewhere in his body. Patterson plans to begin treatment immediately.SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted March 6, 2016 Sumner Redstone's predecessor as Viacom chairman Ralph Baruch, dead at 92: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/business/media/ralph-baruch-who-shaped-viacoms-rise-dies-at-92.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesarts&smtyp=cur&_r=1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted March 11, 2016 A former chairman and chief executive of health care giant Johnson & Johnson has died. Ralph S. Larsen, 77, died of cardiac arrest Wednesday at his home in Naples, Florida. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted March 19, 2016 Former Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor died earlier this month in California of natural causes. He was 57. Sheptor was president and CEO at Imperial on Feb. 8, 2008, when the company’s Port Wentworth processing plant got all blowed up, causing 15 employees to die from unnatural causes, unlike Sheptor. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted March 20, 2016 Roger Agnelli, ex-President/CEO of the world's largest mining conglomerate Vale, S.A., dies in a plane crash in Sao Paulo (crashed into a house!)....along with his wife and kids.....leaving cousin Sir Creep as their sole heir!SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2016 Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, dead at 79 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160321006413/en/Andrew-S.-Grove-1936-%E2%80%93-2016 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Droosy Posted March 22, 2016 CEOs have been dropping like flies recently; looks like a new revolution is looming, or is it just because Wikipedia has started adding them to the Deaths in 2016 list? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted March 23, 2016 April's Vanity Fair will have an update on the Sumner Redstone story: http://jezebel.com/sumner-redstones-final-days-are-one-big-dramatic-and-p-1766430474 He is now being fed through a feeding tube and communicates through grunts and moans that only one male nurse can interpret... He also really wants to get it on one for one last time. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
