Benjamin "Ben" M. Rosen (born March 11, 1933) is the former chairman and former acting chief executive officer of Compaq[1][2] and a co-founder of Sevin Rosen Funds.
Early life
Rosen was born to a Jewish family[3] in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 11, 1933, to Isadore and Anna Rosen.[4] Rosen's father was a dentist and his mother was a secretary. "Benji" as he was called, was the youngest of his parents' three children.
He received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1954, and M.S. from Stanford University in 1955, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 1961.