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24May

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India, Neighbors, Profiles

Charan Jeet Singh, businessman

Charan Jeet Singh, a resident of Lajpat Nagar and a businessman, died on May 23 after suffering from Covid-19. “My husband didn’t step out of the house when the lockdown started, but I went out daily because of my job… I will never be able to forgive myself,” Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police Surender Jeet Kaur, a day after her husband Charan Jeet Singh, 54, succumbed to Covid at a hospital in Delhi. Singh is survived by his wife and their 26-year-old son who lives in Canada. Kaur, 57, ACP (Crimes Against Women) in the South-East district of the Delhi Police, is also ACP (Covid Cell) of the district. On May 20, five days after Kaur tested positive for the virus, her husband Singh tested positive, followed by the ACP’s 80-year-old father...

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

8May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand a Brazilian businessman, engineer, and art collector in the state of Pernambuco died on 25 April 2020, aged 92, at Real Hospital Português in Recife, due to complications from COVID-19. In 2002 he founded the Ricardo Brennand Institute, which includes the world's largest private collection of Frans Post paintings, and was the 17th-highest-rated museum in the world according to TripAdvisor in 2014. Brennand was born to Dulce Padilha Coimbra and Antônio Luiz de Almeida Brennand in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. He and his family relocated to Recife in 1930, where Brennand completed his secondary education at Colégio Marista from 1937 to 1942. During this time he learned fluent German and English, owing to his British ancestor Edward Brennand who immig...

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman

19Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, Sweden

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage ‑ a Swedish diplomat, banking executive, and political consultant ‑ died at Saint Göran Hospital in Stockholm due to COVID‑19 on 18 April 2020. Belfrage was the son of diplomat Kurt-Allan Belfrage and his wife, Renée France Paule Puaux. His brother, Frank Belfrage, is an economist and diplomat. Belfrage graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 1970. Belfrage worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1970 to 1987 as a diplomat in Geneva, Washington, D.C., Bucharest, Beirut, and Paris. In 1987, he became vice president at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and as an adviser to Investor AB. Belfrage also served as an advisor to Peter Wallenberg and the Wallenberg family between 1987 and 2012.

7Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Alfonso Cortina, businessman

Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer - a Spanish businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil and gas group - died on 6 April 2020 of COVID-19. Cortina was born on 13 March 1944 in Madrid. He graduated in Industrial Engineering and held a further degree in Economic Sciences. His father was Pedro Cortina Mauri, foreign minister during the Francoist dictatorship. He began his career in the banking sector, where he held various positions at BBVA, Banco Zaragozano and Banco Central. Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer became president of the Spanish oil firm Repsol in 1996 despite his lack of experience in the petroleum industry. He also served as Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor for Spain and Latin America, Rothschild Europe. He died on ...

Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

5Apr

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Belgium, High Profilers, Noteworthy, Profiles

Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

Philippe André Eugène, Baron Bodson, a Belgian businessman and politician who served in the Belgian Senate from 1999 to 2003, died from Covid-19 on 4 April 2020. Bodson graduated as civil engineer at the University of Liège (ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) Bodson started his career at McKinsey in Paris where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany and the United States. In 1977, he started working for Glaverbel, where he would be the CEO from 1980 until 1989. From September 1989 until December 1998, he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Fortis. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate for the Mouvement reformateur. F...

Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

4Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

Francisco Hernando Contreras aka Paco el Pocero ‑ a Spanish businessman in the construction industry who developed the project Seseña, promising to build 13,500 residences – died on 3 April 2020 of Covid-19. Following the collapse of the Spanish property bubble, he went to Equatorial Guinea and left his projects unfinished.

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Aaron Rubashkin, businessman

Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, a Russian-American businessman, died due to complications brought on by COVID-19 on April 2, 2020. An adherent to Haredi Judaism of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, Rubashkin was born in the late-1920s in the Russian town Nevel in the former Soviet Union He was the son of Getzel Rubashkin and Rosa Lubavicher Hasidim, who raised their two sons and daughters as observant Jews in spite of the anti-religious repression in the Soviet Union. When the Germans occupied Nevel in July 1941, the Rubashkin family fled east, eventually reaching the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he married Rivka Chazanov of the Chein family of Nevel. After the war, the Rubashkin family left the Soviet Union via Lemberg and spent time in Austria, before they settled in Paris ...

Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

30Mar

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

Robert Heiner Garff ‑ an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group – died of Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Garff was born on September 15, 1942, the son of Marjorie Heiner and Kendall D. Garff. He attended the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and an MBA in 1967. The Ken Garff Automotive Group is a large car dealership conglomerate, founded in 1932 by Bob's father. The company or one of its dealerships, according to a January 2004 survey conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, was the second-most mentioned car dealership by Utahns ...

22Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Lorenzo Sanz, businessman

Lorenzo Sanz Mancebo –a Spanish businessman who was the president of Real Madrid between 1995 and 2000, and owner of Málaga CF – succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. Born on 9 August 1943 in Madrid, Spain, Sanz played as a goalkeeper in his youth for several minor Madrilenian league teams, including Puerta Bonita. An astute businessman, he made his fortune in real estate and construction. Sanz was a director of Real Madrid from 1985 to 1995. He then became president of Real Madrid on 26 November 1995 after Ramón Mendoza was forced to resign due to the economic, social, and sporting problems of the club. Sanz tried to turn the club around by bringing in star players like Davor Šuker and Predrag Mijatović with his ...

22Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

William Stern, businessman

William George Stern ‑ a businessman most notable as the owner of the British Stern Group of companies – died of Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. When the British Stern Group of companies collapsed in 1973, Stern became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million. The uninsured losses sustained by thousands of investors led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act. He died during the Covid-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by Covid-19. He was born Vilmos György Stern or Ze’ev HaKohen Stern in Budapest, the youngest of three children of Chaim Stern, who owned a textile factory supplying goods to the Hungarian government. When Hungary was invaded by Nazi Germany in March 1944, Stern along with hi...