Leo Yochim, former president of Printronic Corp. of America, died Saturday at his home in Manchester, NJ. He was 77.
Yochim had been president of the computer service bureau since 1966, according to longtime friend Susan Keenan who had worked with him for 32 years. He sold Printronic to Fair Isaac in 1998.
He had also won a Caples Award, a Silver Apple award from the Direct Marking Club of New York and had been president of the Direct Marketing Computer Association. The Direct Marketing Association named him Man of the Year, according to Keenan.
Yochim learned about computers while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. during the early 1950s.
At one point, the USMC was set to ship off computers to Korea but Yochim–who remained in the U.S. during the war–told his superior officer the Corps. should not ship any computers overseas without spare parts. Yochim’s superior officer told him “that’s why we have you here,” Keenan recalled.
After discharge from the Marines in 1953, Yochim went to work for Tower, Perrins and Crosby, a Philadelphia-based actuarial firm, and later worked for Burroughs and CBS before founding Printronic.
Yochim is survived by Keenan, 10 childen, 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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