Biography
Disque was a 1939 graduate of Stuyvesant High School and attended Duke University. Deane was a founder of Corporate Property Investors which was sold to the Simon Property Group which sold the General Motors Building to Donald Trump and Conseco Insurance for $878 million in 1998.
Other positions held by Disque Deane included Chairman of The Deane Group, private merchant bankers, and Bolfarm S.R.L, a large Bolivian industrial agricultural company. Deane held senior positions and directorships at Eastman Dillon Union Securities, RCA Corporation, and Sun Chemical. Deane was the Chairman of the Deane Laboratory at Duke University.
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