Richard “Dick” Parsons, the affable troubleshooter who helped some of the most beleaguered U.S. companies navigate the 1990 savings-and-loan meltdown, the dot-com bust and the 2008 financial crisis, died at age 76.

Richard D. Parsons, whose humane approach to business made him a serial troubleshooter at distressed companies including Time Warner, CBS and Citigroup and a sought-after adviser at the highest echelons of American industry, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 76.

Richard Parsons, one of corporate America’s most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, has died