Alfred Eugene Brockman and Pearl are the parents of billionaire Robert Brockman, who is best known for building a multibillion-dollar fortune as a software entrepreneur and investor before he was indicted in a landmark tax-evasion case.
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Robert was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and at the time he was born, his father was a gas-station owner and his mother, Pearl was a physiotherapist. There’s no further information about his parents.
Robert schooled briefly at the Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and later graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 1963 and was a member of its business honor society.
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Brockman started his career in 1964 as a marketing trainee with Ford Motors and was a Marine Corps reservist at the same time. From 1966 to 1970, he worked at IBM and was the leading U.S. salesman in IBM’s service bureau.
Brockman founded Universal Computer Systems, a computer systems and software provider for car dealerships, in 1970 in his living room. The company sold its first in-dealership computer system in 1982.
The company merged with Reynolds & Reynolds on August 8, 2006. He became the CEO after the merger.
Brockman was charged in October 2020 with running a $2 billion tax evasion scheme. However, he couldn’t live long enough to see the case through as he died on August 5, 2022, aged 81.
His death was revealed the next day (August 6), by his attorney, Kathy Keneally.
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