Albert D. Cohen
Albert Diamond Cohen, OC LLD was a Canadian entrepreneur, community builder, philanthropist, and Officer of the Order of Canada. He was Chairman, CoPresident and CoChief Executive Officer of Gendis Inc. www.gendis.ca, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed Canadian real estate and investment company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At one time, Gendis held a 51 stake in Sony of Canada and owned the SAAN Stores retail chain. He was married to Irena Cohen from 1953 until his death, and they had three children Anthony, James, and AnnaLisa. He was the author of several books The Entrepreneurs The Story of Gendis Inc...The Triangle of Success The GendisSaan Story...The Story of SAAN...and...I.D.E.A. His latest and last book, published in the fall of 2010, was titled Reminiscences of an Entrepreneur How Sony came to Canada and then to the World in 1955. His interest and talent for writing stemmed out from his close personal friendship with the late British author Ian Fleming. He died peacef
Cohen came from a poor immigrant family of eight, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba as the son of Alexander and Rose Cohen, and he served with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1942 to 1945.
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