Andrew Kahr

Andrew Seth Kahr was the founder and CEO of First Deposit Corp, which later became known as Providian, and was acquired by Washington Mutual in 2005; it is now owned by Chase Bank. Andrew Kahr grew up in New York City, where he attended the Fieldston School of the Ethical Culture Society. He went to Harvard University in 1957 and graduated three years later, in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1962 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis was "A Minimal Reduction Class for the Entscheidungsproblem". Following that he attended Harvard Business School. In a 1999 cardholder class-action lawsuit against Providian, 12 internal company documents were obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle. For his role in forming...