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Name
  
Frank Cary


Role
  
Executive

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Died
  
January 1, 2006, Darien, Connecticut, United States

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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.

While he was not well known outside of 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.

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