Robert Brockman, 81, a self-taught software entrepreneur who developed a system that helped car dealers run their operations virtually has died aged 81. Prior to his death, he had been fighting IRS allegations of money laundering and tax evasion worth more than $2 billion since 2020.
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Brockman is survived by his wife Dorothy Kay Brockman (m.1968) and three children; Tom Sturridge, Matilda Sturridge, and Arthur Sturridge. Further information about Brockman’s children is currently unavailable.
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Born in Florida, where his father ran a gas station and his mother worked as a physiotherapist, Brockman registered dozens of patents, and founded Reynolds & Reynolds, a software company that boasted more than 5,000 employees and was worth more than $5 billion.
In Oct. 2020, federal prosecutors charged Brockman with using offshore companies, code names and burner phones to hide more than $2 billion of income from the IRS, most of it earned through Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that he helped launch.
Brockman couldn’t live to see out the case as he died on August 5, 2022 in his Florida home.
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