Robert Van Kampen

Robert D. Van Kampen (1938–1999) was a businessman and member of various organizational boards in the business world and Christian ministry. Van Kampen's business career took him into the investment banking world, and he became one of the wealthiest men in the United States after founding the investment banking firm Van Kampen Merritt in 1974. In the 1990s, Van Kampen developed what is known today in fundamentalist Christian eschatology as the "Pre-Wrath” rapture position, authoring three books on the subject.