Jack C. Massey

Jack Carroll Massey (June 15, 1904 – February 15, 1990) was an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur who owned Kentucky Fried Chicken, co-founded the Hospital Corporation of America, and owned one of the largest franchisees of Wendy's. He was the first American businessman to take three different companies public.

Early life Massey was born in 1904 in Tennille, Georgia.

Business career Massey began his business career working as a delivery boy in his uncle's drugstore. He built the store into a pharmacy chain, selling it six years later. He sold it to the A.S. Aloe division of the Brunswick Corporation for $1 million. The company became the nation's largest chain of for-profit hospitals and Massey left active management in 1978.

Philanthropy Massey was a donor to Belmont University, where the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business was named in his honor. He later married Alyne Queener. His obituary in The Palm Beach Daily News called him "a legend in American business."