Business
Founders and leaders of the companies people worked for and bought from. 8 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Benjamin M. Rosen1933 – 2026 · Venture capitalistPC-era VC who backed Compaq and taught Wall Street to love the Apple II.
100 candles · 6 tributes
Hiroshi Okuda1932 – 2026 · BusinessmanToyota outsider who forced the Prius into the world and remade Japanese industry.
97 candles · 4 tributes
Bruce Lunsford1947 – 2026 · AttorneyKentucky builder who raced Art Collector and nearly unseated Mitch McConnell.
66 candles · 10 tributes
Sir Roger Jones1943 – 2026 · PharmacistWelsh pharmacist-entrepreneur who built Penn Pharma, led the WDA, and never stopped fishing for Wales.
59 candles · 6 tributes
Martha Rivers Ingram1935 – 2026 · BusinesswomanNashville's First Lady of the Arts who built halls, saved a symphony, and led a billion-dollar company.
46 candles · 6 tributes
Klaus-Michael Kühne1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessmanLogistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.
34 candles · 8 tributes
Brian Dyson1935 – 2026 · Business executiveCoca-Cola leader who launched Diet Coke, weathered New Coke, and taught the world work is rubber, the rest is glass.
34 candles · 5 tributes
Guus Kouwenhoven1942 – 2026 · BusinessmanDutch timber baron convicted over Liberia's war, who never served the sentence.
31 candles · 9 tributes