Walter P. Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation with the
original 1924 Chrysler Six.

The Chrysler Corporation was founded out of what remained of the Maxwell Motor Company. Chrysler greatly expanded in 1928, when it acquired the Fargo truck
company and the Dodge Brothers Company and began selling vehicles under
those brands; that same year it also established the Plymouth and DeSoto
automobile brands.

Walter Chrysler,Time Magazine’s Man of the Year – 1928.

1931