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Kenneth Lee Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman who was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the largest bankruptcy ever to that date.
Enron was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay in the merger of two natural-gas-transmission companies, Houston Natural Gas Corporation and InterNorth, Inc.; the merged company, HNG InterNorth, was renamed Enron in 1986.
Jul 5, 2006 · Ken Lay's rise to the top of the business world came to an abrupt halt with the collapse of Enron, the energy trading giant he helped to create. As investigators picked through the wreckage of...
Jul 6, 2006 · Kenneth L. Lay, the son of a Baptist preacher in rural Missouri who rose to the pinnacle of corporate America as head of Enron before becoming a symbol of corporate excess, died yesterday in...
Jul 5, 2006 · Kenneth Lay, the former Enron chief executive and chairman convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, has died. Mr Lay suffered a heart attack at his holiday home near Aspen, Colorado. He...
In the space of a few months, Kenneth L Lay has turned from being a Wall Street hero into public enemy number one. He is the man who turned an unspectacular natural gas pipeline company into a...
Jul 5, 2006 · Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64.
