David Bronson Ingram (born 1962/1963) is an American heir, businessman and philanthropist.BusinessWeek
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Ingram Entertainment Ingram Entertainment Inc. is an American distributor of home entertainment products, like DVDs, audiobooks, video game software and hardware. Ingram Entertainment Inc, is the nation's largest distributor of DVD software. History The company has ...

, the largest distributor of DVDs and video games in the US. He is the founder and chairman of

DBI Beverage Ingram Entertainment Inc. is an American distributor of home entertainment products, like DVDs, audiobooks, video game software and hardware. Ingram Entertainment Inc, is the nation's largest distributor of DVD software. History The company has ...

, a distributor of California beers and non-alcoholic drinks in

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, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin County, San Jose,

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and Ukiah.

Early life

Ingram's late father was

E. Bronson Ingram II E. Bronson Ingram II (1931–1995) was an American billionaire heir and business executive. He served as the Chairman of Ingram Industries from 1963 to 1995.Leslie Eaton, 'E. Bronson Ingram, Who Built Family Concern Into Giant, 63', in ''The New Yo ...

, founder of

Ingram Industries Ingram Industries is a manufacturing company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The company consists of diversified businesses in marine transportation aggregate supply, book distribution, print on demand book manufacturing, management and di ...

. His mother is Martha Rivers Ingram and his brothers are Orrin H. Ingram II and John R. Ingram. His paternal grandfather five times removed, David Ingram, was an immigrant from Leeds, England.Ingram Chronicles
''Forbes'', 9/06/1999 His paternal great-great-grandfather,

Orrin Henry Ingram Orrin Henry Ingram (May 13, 1830 – October 16, 1918) was an American lumber baron and philanthropist from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Orphaned at age 11, he established sawmills in Ontario, Canada, and the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin. He was a banke ...

, was a lumber baron in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and early invested in Friedrich Weyerhäuser's timber investments, later known as the Weyerhaeuser corporation. Ingram received a bachelor's degree in history from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1985 and an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in May 1989.

Business career

He was development officer of Duke University from 1985 to 1987. He was CEO of Ingram Entertainment until 2012. He is the chairman of Ingram Entertainment, and the founder and chairman of DBI Beverage. He serves on the board of directors of Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. Formerly, he served on the boards of BUY.com, Goldleaf Financial Solutions,Inc. and Ingram Micro.

Philanthropy

He is chairman of the board of trustees of Montgomery Bell Academy. He serves as president of The Golf Club of Tennessee and head of the investment committee for the Tennessee Golf Foundation. He is a member of the Augusta National Golf Club. In September 2005, he made a $100,000 gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. In January 2010, he made a $100,000 donation to the Red Cross International Relief Fund to help the victims of the

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. In November 2013, he donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross Philippines Relief Fund to help victims of the Philippines typhoon disaster. As of September 2019, Ingram and his wife

Sarah LeBrun Ingram Sarah LeBrun Ingram (née LeBrun, born 1965/1966) is an American amateur golfer, a member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. She is a former All-American golfer at Duke University who became a three-time win ...

had donated a combined $5,600 to U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.

Personal life

In 1989, he married Sarah LeBrun, a member of the Duke University women's golf team whom he met when they were students.

went on to win the

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three times and was elected to the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. She elected not to turn pro in order remain in Nashville to raise their two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingram, David B. Living people Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni Vanderbilt University alumni Businesspeople from Tennessee American chief executives Philanthropists from Tennessee American people of English descent Ingram family 1960 births