Henry Taub

Henry Taub (September 20, 1927 – March 31, 2011) was an American businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-Jewish descent who was a co-founder of ADP.

Raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Taub attended Eastside High School.

Taub was educated at New York University. He graduated from NYU in 1947 with a degree in accounting.

In 1949, he founded Automatic Payrolls Inc. (API), a manual payroll processing service in Northern New Jersey. That company is now known as Automatic Data Processing (ADP) a Technion campus landmark and home to its Faculty of Computer Science, considered one of the best in the world; the Leaders in Science and Technology Faculty Recruitment Program; and the Henry and Marilyn Taub Fund for the Future.

He was awarded the Technion Medal, a Technion honorary doctorate, and a Technion honorary fellowship. A special American Technion Society celebration in 2004 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City was held in tribute to Taub's lifetime of brilliant and dedicated service.

A resident of Tenafly, New Jersey, Taub died on March 31, 2011, due to complications of leukemia.