Louis V. Gerstner III, the son of the former chief executive of International Business Machines, died on Thursday. He was 41.
He died after choking while dining in a restaurant, according to a paid death notice in The New York Times.
Mr. Gerstner served as president of the Gerstner Family Foundation, according to the death notice. The foundation had $94 million in assets as of 2011, according to a tax filing. Mr. Gerstner, “dedicated much of his adult life to providing educational opportunities to underprivileged children,†the death notice said.
Randall Whitestone, a spokesman for the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm where the elder Mr. Gerstner serves as a senior adviser, said that the Gerstner family had nothing to add beyond the death notice.
A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Business School, Mr. Gerstner worked earlier in his career at the private equity firm Forstmann Little. He was a member of the Young Lions Committee of the New York Public Library.
His father, Louis V. Gerstner Jr., became chief executive of I.B.M. in 1993 and led a turnaround of the then-ailing technology company. Prior to joining I.B.M., he served as a senior executive at American Express and chief executive of RJR Nabisco.
According to his death notice, he is survived by his children, Grace and Olivia; a sister, Elizabeth Gerstner, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital; and his parents. In 1999, he married Mary Gervaise Lawhorne, a fellow Princeton graduate, according to a wedding announcement in The Times.
