Reminiscences of J. Michael Windsor : oral history, 2006.

Biographical Note

Manager, CEO and CFO of Duty Free Shoppes.

Scope and Contents

Born 1935 near Lancashire, England; early career as an accountant in England and Hong Kong; accounts of Tourists International and Duty Free Shoppers [DFS]; controller for DFS in Hong Kong [1969] and Hawaii [1970]; DFS ten year concession deal in Hawaii; shutting down Hawaii Retail Group and McInerny Limited; interactions between four DFS partners; CFF and philanthropy at Chaminade University in Honolulu; Internal Revenue Service audit of DFS in Hawaii; investment in Actinium Pharmaceuticals cancer drug; interactions with DFS colleagues; interactions with CFF since 1969.

Subjects

• Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization)
• Chaminade University.
• Chief executive officers--Interviews.
• DFS Galleria (Firm)
• Endowments.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Windsor, J. Michael, 1935---Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright held by: The Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York and The Atlantic Philanthropies, 2007.