Robert George "Bob" Wilmers (April 20, 1934 – December 16, 2017) was an American billionaire banker.
[5] His sister Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books, the well-known literary journal.
[1] In 1992, the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Management named Wilmers Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year.
Wilmers retired as CEO in 2005 but returned 18 months later after his successor, Robert Sadler, stepped down from the post[6] and later received the 2005 American Banker Lifetime Achievement Award.
[9][10] In 2016, together with several partners, he purchased a group of newspapers in western New England, including The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, MA.