Lee Iacocca

Lee Iaccoca was president and chairman of the board of the Chrysler Corporation from 1979 to 1992. He was chairman of The Iacocca Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization he established in 1984 that is dedicated to educational projects and the advancement of diabetes research. He was also chairman emeritus of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and led (as a request from President Ronald Reagan) the effort to restore the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island between 1982 and 1986.

Iacocca is the author of Where Have All the Leaders Gone?; Iacocca: An Autobiography; and Talking Straight. He also wrote the foreword to Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford.

photograph: courtesy The Iacocca Foundation