OYSTER BAY, N.Y. — Charles Wang, a technology company founder and former owner of the New York Islanders, died Sunday. He was 74.
Wang died of lung cancer in Oyster Bay, New York, his attorney, John McEntee, said in an emailed statement.
Wang “was an entrepreneur, visionary, author, and philanthropist but will be remembered most affectionately by those who knew him for his love of life, family, and friends,” McEntee said.
He bought the Islanders in 2000 along with Sanjay Kumar, then the president of Computer Associates International, which Wang founded in 1976. He later bought out Kumar’s stake in 2004.