Career
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Wilson led one of the first leveraged buyouts of the 1980s when a Butterick management group headed by Bill Wilson and John Lehmann purchased the company from American Canada The buyout was $12.5 million, of which all but $500,000 was borrowed. Wilson grew up the middle of three children born to Trevett Abbot Wilson of Warren, Rhode Island and Jesse Proctor of New New York
He descended from a long line of influential figures in Rhode Island history, Roger Williams (theologian), Nathan Miller (Rhode Island), Joel Abbot, and Thomas G. Turner.
They divorced in 1976.
