David Mahoney

DAVID JOSEPH MAHONEY JR. was a business executive, philanthropist, and chairman of the Charles A. Dana Foundation who wrote two books. His books include The Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection and Confessions of a Street-Smart Manager.

Mahoney received a Horatio Alger Award. He attended the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and served as an Army infantry captain during World War II.

When not writing, Mahoney led major corporations including Good Humor, Colgate-Palmolive, Canada Dry, and Norton Simon, Inc., and later refocused the Dana Foundation on neuroscience, founding the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and endowing neuroscience programs at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Much of his later work explored the connection between brain health and longevity.

Mahoney died on May 1, 2000, in Palm Beach, Florida.

David Mahoney’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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