Jump to content

Frank T. Cary

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs) at 17:34, 8 August 2018 (Removing from Category:American businesspeople using Cat-a-lot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Frank T. Cary (14 December 1920, Gooding, Idaho – 1 January 2006, Darien, Connecticut) was an American executive and businessman. Cary served as the chairman from 1973 to 1983 and CEO from 1973 to 1981 of IBM. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[1]

While he was not well known outside IBM, during his tenure as chief executive he presided over a period of rapid growth in product, revenue and profit. His most notable accomplishment was recognizing that the personal computer was going to be an emerging product category that could ultimately be a threat to IBM. Consequently, he forced the creation of a special, small dedicated group to spearhead an answer to Apple, within IBM but totally protected from the internal bureaucracy of a large corporation.

Frank T. Cary died, aged 85, on New Year's Day 2006.

References

  1. ^ "Former Steering Committee Members". bilderbergmeetings.org. Bilderberg Group. Archived from the original on 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2014-02-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Business positions
Preceded by CEOs of IBM
1973–1981 		Succeeded by


Stub icon

This article about an American businessperson born in the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_T._Cary&oldid=854058150"