Dennis Washington

Dennis R. Washington (born 1934) is an American billionaire industrialist and the founder of The Washington Companies, a group of privately held businesses based in Missoula, Montana. A self-made entrepreneur, he built the company beginning in the 1960s into a diversified conglomerate with interests spanning heavy construction, mining, rail, marine transportation, and shipbuilding, including a controlling stake in the marine freight operator Seaspan. He and his wife established the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation in 1988 to support philanthropic causes.