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Sir Edwin Ronald Nixon Template:Postnominals (21 June 1925 – 17 August 2008) was an eminent British business leader who headed IBM's operations in the country for over 20 years.[1]
Born in 1925, he was educated at Alderman Newton's School, Leicester,[2] and Selwyn College, Cambridge. After a spell at Dexion, he joined IBM UK in 1955 and was successively managing director, chairman, and chief executive[3] before becoming chairman of Amersham International in 1988. A former deputy lieutenant of Hampshire, he died in 2008.
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