Addison
Barry
(Barry)
Rand
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Ancestors 
Husband of
[private wife (1940s - unknown)]
Husband of
[private wife (1950s - unknown)]
Father of
[private son (1980s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1990s - unknown)]
Died
at age 74
in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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Biography
Barry Rand is Notable.
Addison Barry Rand was one of the first African American CEOs of a Fortune 500 company.
Addison was born in 1944. He was the only child of Addison Penrod Rand and Helen Matthews.
Rand married Jane Ribeau in 1970. He received an annulment in 1982 in Fairfield County, Connecticut.[1]
Rand married Donna Holt June 30, 1990.[2]
Rand joined Xerox in 1968 and served in increasingly senior positions, including executive vice president for operations.[3] Rand served as CEO of Avis from 1999 until an acquisition in 2001.[4][5] In 2009, Rand came out of retirement to lead AARP, the United States' largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to social change and helping people age 50 and over to improve the quality of their lives. [6]
He died November 7, 2018, at an assisted living facility in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Sources
- ↑ Name: Addison B Rand; Race: Black; Birth Date: 1944; Education: 5 or more years college; Certificate Number: 12006; Spouse Name: Jane; Spouse Race: Black; Spouse Birth Date: 1946; Spouse Education: College; Marriage Date: 1970; Children Under Age 18: None; Plaintiff: Wife; Plaintiff Town of Residence: Stamford, Connecticut; Decree Date: 1982; Type of Decree: Annulment Granted to Husband; Court Docket Number: 051024; Superior Court County of Decree: Fairfield. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Divorce Index, 1968-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: “Connecticut Divorce Index, 1968-1997.” Database. Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut. Archive Collection Number: DR09368.
- ↑ "Connecticut Marriage Index, 1959-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWT2-33Y : 4 December 2014), Addison B Rand and Donna M Holt, 30 Jun 1990; from "Connecticut, Marriage Index, 1959-2001," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2003); citing Stamford, FairField, Connecticut, United States, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford.
- ↑ Walker, Blair S. "A notch from the top Xerox's Rand is closer to corner office." USA Today, March 25, 1992.
- ↑ Deutsch, Claudia H. "Former Xerox Officer Gets Top Avis Job." New York Times, November 10, 1999.
- ↑ "Avis' pick for CEO fulfills large company ambition." The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont), Sunday, November 14, 1999, page 53. Newspapers.com (subscription required).
- ↑ "Former AARP CEO Championed Social Change in Corporate America." AARP, November 15, 2018.
- Langer, Emily. "Barry Rand, business executive who helped diversify corporate America, dies at 74." The Washington Post. November 16, 2018.
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