Henry Taub (September 20, 1927 – March 31, 2011) was an American businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-
Jewish
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Paterson, New Jersey
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Taub was educated at
New York University
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. He graduated from NYU in 1947 with a degree in accounting.NNDB profile
In 1949, he founded Automatic Payrolls Inc. (API), a manual
payroll
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processing service in Northern
New Jersey
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. That company is now known as
Automatic Data Processing
ADP, Inc. (originally an acronym for Automatic Data Processing) is an American provider of human resources management software and services.
History
In 1949, Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business wi ...
(ADP) and is the leading provider of computerized payroll and benefits management services to employers in the U.S. He retired from ADP in the mid-1980s.
Taub served as national president of th American Technion Society from 1974 to 1976, and chair of the Technion International Board of Governors from 1990 to 2003. At the time of his death in 2011, he held the title of Honorary Chair of the Technion international Board of Governors, and was a member of the ATS National Board of Directors and New York Metropolitan Region Board.
He and his wife, Marilyn, spearheaded numerous Technion projects, including the Henry and Marilyn Taub and Family Science and Technology Center, a Technion campus landmark and home to its Faculty of Computer Science, considered one of the best in the world; the Leaders in Science and Technology Faculty Recruitment Program; and the Henry and Marilyn Taub Fund for the Future.
He was awarded the Technion Medal, a Technion honorary doctorate, and a Technion honorary fellowship. A special American Technion Society celebration in 2004 at the
Plaza Hotel
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in New York City was held in tribute to Taub's lifetime of brilliant and dedicated service.
A resident of
Tenafly, New Jersey
Tenafly () is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census the borough had a population of 15,409,
, Taub died on March 31, 2011, due to complications of leukemia.