Business Career
He started a consulting company in the bedroom of his house in New Jersey, John Diebold & Associates, which through acquisitions morphed into The Diebold Group, an international organization.
He was fired from several jobs for refusing to "give up on his obsession with computer and automation". Considered ahead of his time, many of his ideas were widely implemented. In 1968, for instance, he championed automated teller machines (ATMs). That same year, he established an operating foundation, The Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies. Among its works was a case report on the impact of Silicon Alley on the New York economy and the book 'Innovators'.
He died in Bedford Hills, New York, of esophageal cancer, aged 79.
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