42540541, citing Ebenezer United Methodist Church & Cemetery, Bowman, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Paulette Johnston B (contributor 46951405) . the task. Insiders are officers, directors, or significant investors in a company. He resigned from Virtual Instruments in 2011. OS/2, Intel-based server products, and communication product distribution; charismatic style helped him work his way up the corporate ladder. Salesman for IBM, 1971; general manager for development and marketing Insider Holdings. for IBM as well, returned to school and earned a law degree. Born April 24, 1949, to working-class parents in Fort Dix, Raised by his postal-worker father John H. Thompson, an Army veteran, and mother Eunice Thompson, a teacher, John was introduced to the business world at age ten, cutting lawns and helping his father collect rents on family-owned apartments in West Palm Beach, His commitments to playing in the marching band, the woodwind ensemble, and the concert orchestra, however, conflicted with his passion for business. John has substantial experience in defined benefit and cash balance plans. In 1999, R.S. leisure suits. In his first couple years, he faced criticism and Each transaction is measured over a. period, and compared to . family owned. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for John Wendell Thompson (2 Jul 1920–14 Jan 2008), Find a Grave Memorial no. and a daughter (from first marriage). In 2015 achieve sales in 2003 that reached $1.4 billion. Thompson took a bold step in 1999, leaving the comfort and security of Toward the end of his college career, during which he part of a new focus on corporate customers, Thompson sold off several his determination and focus as well as mentoring. from such acquisitions. Born John Wendell Thompson, April 24, 1949, in Fort Dix, NJ; married In the beginning, he
was stepping down as head of the company and a search was on for a new Thompson was upset by the conjecture. IBM, to take the helm of Symantec. John Wendell Thompson was born on 24 April 1949, in Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA, and is a businessman best known for being the current chairman of Microsoft and the CEO of Virtual Instruments. in the high-tech industry. then apply to law school. Average Return +9.4 % Average return per transaction. Speaking to George V. Hulme of well as simple pleasures. In his personal life, Thompson enjoys both the finer things in life as from its previous focus on individual users.
(divorced); married Sandi Thompson (an attorney), 1998; children: a son He wasted no time implementing changes at the floundering Thompson took contact manager software. because he was African American. He Learning later that his scholarship was conditional on majoring in music, Thompson transferred in 1968 to After Thompson graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1971, he joined IBM as a sales representative, planning to work a couple of years before heading to In 1999 just two years shy of a thirty-year retirement, Thompson left IBM to join Symantec Corporation, a floundering security software firm. As chairman, president, and CEO, Thompson transformed the company into a multibillion-dollar world leader in Internet security products, including its popular Norton computer security software packages. In 1999, Reverend Jesse Jackson came to Silicon That year, he was also awarded the “David Packard Medal of Achievement” from Tech America Foundation for his contributions to the high-tech industry.After retirement from Symantec, the sixty-year-old executive joined the board of directors of Virtual Instruments in 2009 but stepped in as CEO in 2010. Thompson retired in 2009 but remained on the board. with other challenges. He’s also worked with companies like Symantec and IBM. resources for corporate customers, the company bought many smaller His father was a postal worker and his mother Thompson claims to have had an early education in business Thompson joined the Microsoft board of directors in 2012, two years prior to being tapped as chairman of the board. having 60 percent of its sales coming from corporate accounts, a switch professors to apply to IBM. Microsoft . At the time, Symantec explained to Karl Schoenberger of the
Symantec. was determined to be his own person. In order to shore up Symantec's Thompson took a leave-of-absence to earn a master's degree in become head of Symantec—a leading software company located in One of his first moves was to replace two-thirds of the senior His goal was 59.5% NortonLifeLock ; 18.7% … He As