OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Charles Wang, a technology company founder and former owner of the New York Islanders hockey team, died Sunday. He was 74.
Wang died in Oyster Bay on Long Island according to his attorney John McEntee in an emailed statement. A cause of death was not disclosed.
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 in his statement.
The Islanders’ current co-owner, Jon Ledecky, also released a statement on Wang’s passing:
“We are heartbroken by the news of Charles Wang’s passing.