H. Donald Wilson

Businessperson, Deceased Person

1923 – 2006

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Who was H. Donald Wilson?

Henry Donald Wilson, generally referred to as H. Donald Wilson was a database pioneer and entrepreneur. He was also the first president and one of the principal creators of the Lexis legal information system, and Nexis. An attorney by training who became an information industry innovator and a venture capital consultant to numerous businesses, Mr. Wilson was also an internationalist and a conservationist. At the time of his death, he was chairman of Lessac Technologies Inc., a text-to-voice software venture based on nearly fifty years of partnership with Arthur Lessac. .

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Born
Nov 21, 1923
New Rochelle
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale University
  • Columbia Law School
  • Phillips Academy
Died
Nov 12, 2006

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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