# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-kassar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:29:37.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-kassar"
name: "Ray Kassar"
slug: "ray-kassar"
description: "Raymond Edward Kassar was an American business executive who served as president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been executive vice-president of Burlington Industries, the world's largest textile company at the time, and president of its Burlington House division."
tagline: "American businessman (1928-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1928-01-02"
deathDate: "2017-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             3.064250411861615
  historical:           8.295214666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 240
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B7%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E8%96%A9%E7%88%BE"
    title: "雷·卡薩爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "راي كسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "راى كسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar"
    title: "Ray Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar"
    title: "Ray Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar"
    title: "Ray Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar"
    title: "Ray Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "レイ・カサール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar"
    title: "Ray Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q741692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump