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F. Ross Johnson
Canadian businessman
Frederick Ross Johnson, OC (December 13, 1931 – December 29, 2016) was a Canadian businessman, best known as the chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco in the 1980s.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 13, 1931,[2] into a lower-middle-class family, Johnson used a military cadet scholarship program to attend the University of Manitoba, where he graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and was President of the fraternityPhi Delta Theta.
He went on to earn an MBA from the University of Toronto in 1956.
Career
Johnson first worked as an accountant for General Electric in Montreal and as a vice-president of merchandising for the T. Eaton Company before being named president of Standard Brands Ltd.[3]
Johnson negotiated a merger between Standard Brands and Nabisco with Nabisco CEO Bob Schaeberle in 1981.
Soon after, Schaeberle left Nabisco, and Johnson took the he