Stephen Boleslav Roman belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Stephen Boleslav Roman as Slovak entrepreneur.
Stephen Boleslav Roman was born at Nový Ruskov in 1921. His recorded nationality is Czech Republic.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as engineer, mining engineer and entrepreneur.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
Recognition followed: Member of the Order of Canada and Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross (1995).
That the business was built from Czech Republic shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Stephen Boleslav Roman died in 1988, aged 67. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Member of the Order of Canada
- Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross — 1995
