Former Brown-Forman President Bill Street Passes Away
2018年7月26日 - 9:43PM
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Brown-Forman regrettably announced today the death of former
long-time executive William M. Street after a courageous multi-year
battle against cancer.
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Born September 23, 1938 in Louisville, KY to Daniel Street
(former president of Brown-Forman) and Frances (Woodruff) Street,
Bill Street graduated from Princeton University, earned his MBA
from Harvard University, and worked at Brown-Forman his entire
career, rising from a sales trainee when he joined the company in
1956 to president of the corporation when he retired in 2003. He
also served on Brown-Forman’s board of directors for 40 years
before retiring from it in 2011.
“Bill Street will be remembered fondly by us all as an
enormously successful Brown-Forman president and board member, a
luminary in the global spirits industry, and a prominent Louisville
civic leader,” said Brown-Forman Chief Executive Officer Paul
Varga. “Most notably, however, he will be remembered as a gracious
and good man who enriched the lives of so many people at our
company and in our community. We will miss him dearly, and our
thoughts are very much with his wife Lindy and his family on this
sad occasion.”
“Working closely at that time with Brown-Forman Corporation
Chairman and CEO Owsley Brown II, Bill and other executives
developed and implemented the company’s globalization strategy in
the mid-1990s, propelling Brown-Forman to expand its international
business to encompass more than 170 countries around the globe,”
stated Brown-Forman Chairman Garvin Brown. “This strategy was the
foundation that enabled the company’s outstanding period of growth
and success over the last 20 years. Bill was also a strong source
of stability on the Brown-Forman Board of Directors for over four
decades and his counsel during that span is directly reflected in
the company’s remarkable standing today,” added Brown.
Bill served on the boards of Papa John’s International, Inc. and
the Filson Historical Society. He was director emeritus of the
Metropolitan YMCA of Greater Louisville and Louisville Collegiate
School. He was former chairman of Greater Louisville, Inc., the
Governor's Scholars Program, and the Kentucky Horse Racing
Authority, a position he held from 2004 to 2008. He was inducted
into the Kentucky Distillers Association Hall of Fame in 2015. He
was also named to the Kenuckiana Business Hall of Fame in 2012 by
Junior Achievement; was a 2004 recipient of Greater Louisville
Inc.’s Gold Cup award for outstanding business and civic
leadership; and received the Spirit of Louisville award in 2003
from the YMCA of Greater Louisville.
Perhaps no greater testament to Bill’s character and leadership
came from the late Owsley Brown II, who said when Bill retired from
Brown-Forman in 2003:
“Bill Street is a paragon of leadership for corporate America.
He has conducted himself with the utmost integrity as he constantly
strived to meet the needs of Brown-Forman’s constituents – our
shareholders, our management team, our partners, the communities
where we work, and, of course, our employees.”
Bill is survived by his wife Lindy Barber Street, daughter Woody
Gardner and stepchildren Liz Quail (Brian), Sallie Talbott, Jennie
Talbott (Jim), Kit Walden, Martha Lee Walden, and Bob Weldon
(Maria); also surviving are his grandchildren Ty, Warner, Amelia,
Chloe, Sophia, Isabelle, Robert, Maggie, Jackson, Hunter, and
Tyler.
Visitation is scheduled on Friday, August 3, from 3:00 - 7:00
p.m. at Louisville Collegiate School, 2427 Glenmary Ave,
Louisville, KY 40204. The funeral will be August 4, at 10:30 a.m.
at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage, 1206 Maple Ln,
Louisville, KY 40223.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made
to Louisville Collegiate School, 2427 Glenmary Avenue,
Louisville, KY 40204; Filson Club, 1310 South Third Street,
Louisville, KY 40208 and Gilda’s Club Louisville, 633 Baxter
Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204.
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