H. Donald Wilson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

H. Donald Wilson

American businessman

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1923

Date of Death: 12-Nov-2006

Profession: businessperson

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Henry Donald Wilson (Nov.
21, 1923 - November 12, 2006), 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. A speech about his life that Wilson gave on June 9, 2006 at Collington-Kendal was called "From Idealist to Idealistic Realist With a Ride on Moore's Law." He concluded the story of his life saying, "We are in a race between having new technology destroy us and using it to save ourselves."