Henry Taub

Who was Henry Taub?

Henry Taub was an American-born businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-Jewish descent.

Taub was educated at New York University. He graduated from NYU in 1947 with a degree in accounting.

In 1949, he founded Automatic Payrolls Inc., a manual payroll processing service in Northern New Jersey. That company is now known as Automatic Data Processing, Inc. and is the leading provider of computerized payroll and benefits management services to employers in the U.S. He retired from ADP in the mid-1980s.

Taub served as national president of the American Technion Society from 1974 to 1976, and chair of the Technion International Board of Governors from 1990 to 2003. At the time of his death in 2011, he held the title of Honorary Chair of the Technion international Board of Governors, and was a member of the ATS National Board of Directors and New York Metropolitan Region Board.