Ran­dolph Nick­las Reynolds was born in Louisville, KY on Novem­ber 22, 1941, to William Gray Reynolds and Mary Spottswood Nick­las Reynolds. He is sur­vived by his wife of 59 years, Susan Van Reypen Reynolds, sons Ran­dolph N. Reynolds, Jr. (Clay), Ralph S. Reynolds (Mis­sy) and Robert G. Reynolds (Gaylen) and grand­sons, Ran­dolph N. Reynolds, III (Sara), Christo­pher R. Reynolds, Adam O. C. Reynolds, Nick­las B. Reynolds and great grand­son, Gage W. Reynolds. He is also sur­vived by his sis­ters, Louise R. Bel­mont and Mary R. Simp­son. He was pre­ced­ed in death by his broth­er, William G. Reynolds, Jr. and his grand­son, Sean R. Reynolds.

He grad­u­at­ed from St. George’s School in New­port, Rhode Island in 1961 where he was a senior pre­fect and played foot­ball, bas­ket­ball, wrestling and ten­nis. He was induct­ed into their Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He went on to Bel­larmine Uni­ver­si­ty in Louisville, KY and received a Bach­e­lor of Arts degree in 1966.

Mr. Reynolds had a long and suc­cess­ful career at Reynolds Met­als Com­pa­ny that was found­ed by his grand­fa­ther, Richard S. Reynolds. He start­ed in 1969 in Sales and became Pres­i­dent of Reynolds Inter­na­tion­al, Inc. at the age of 37 in 1978 and then CEO in 1981. He was elect­ed to the Reynolds Met­als Com­pa­ny Board of Direc­tors in 1984. He was elect­ed Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent of Reynolds Met­als Com­pa­ny where he had sev­er­al glob­al busi­ness units report­ing to him includ­ing Baux­ite & Alu­mi­na, Met­als & Car­bon Prod­ucts, Con­struc­tion & Dis­tri­b­u­tion, Trans­porta­tion, Emerg­ing Mar­kets and Ener­gy & Hedg­ing units which includ­ed all of the company’s alu­minum met­al hedg­ing.

After retir­ing from Reynolds Met­als Com­pa­ny in 2000, Mr. Reynolds helped put togeth­er an invest­ment group to take over the Alu­mi­na Com­pa­ny of Guinea, a joint ven­ture com­pa­ny that leased the assets and man­aged the oper­a­tions of Frigu­ia, a four-decade-old baux­ite min­ing and alu­mi­na pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty locat­ed in Guinea, West Africa. He helped sell their inter­est to RUSAL, a Russ­ian alu­minum com­pa­ny, in Novem­ber 2002.

Mr. Reynolds was also Prin­ci­pal of Reynolds Devel­op­ment Com­pa­ny, a pri­vate real estate man­age­ment and devel­op­ment com­pa­ny which he found­ed in 2001 with his late broth­er, William G. Reynolds, Jr., and sons, Ran­dolph N. Reynolds, Jr. and Robert G. Reynolds and his cousin, J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr. The com­pa­ny spe­cial­izes in com­mer­cial real estate invest­ing, man­age­ment and devel­op­ment. In Rich­mond, Vir­ginia, the com­pa­ny owns and man­ages Reynolds Cross­ing locat­ed at Broad Street and Inter­state 64.

Mr. Reynolds was serv­ing on the Board of RUSAL, the world’s sec­ond largest alu­minum com­pa­ny.

He pre­vi­ous­ly served on numer­ous oth­er boards includ­ing First Union Nation­al Bank, Car­pen­ter Com­pa­ny, Novolipet­sk Steel (NLMK), a Russ­ian steel com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in Moscow, and was appoint­ed by Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton to Chair­man of the Board of the Defense Enter­prise Fund, a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that assist­ed in the con­ver­sion of defense firms in Rus­sia and oth­er for­mer Sovi­et states to peace­ful pur­pos­es, until its com­ple­tion in April 2006. He served under Sec­re­taries of Defense, William Per­ry (1995) and William Cohen (1999).

Mr. Reynolds was Bel­larmine University’s Alum­nus of the Year in 1994 and a mem­ber of their Gallery of Dis­tin­guished Grad­u­ates as well as a for­mer mem­ber of their Board of Trustees. Mr. Reynolds was induct­ed into the Rich­mond Busi­ness Hall of Fame in 2020.

Mr. Reynolds was serv­ing as Pres­i­dent of The Richard S. Reynolds Foun­da­tion as well as The Ran­dolph and Susan Reynolds Foun­da­tion and The William G. Reynolds, Jr. Char­i­ta­ble Foun­da­tion.

He was a skilled golfer and ten­nis play­er with five holes in one to his name. His pas­sion for thor­ough­bred horse rac­ing came nat­u­ral­ly from his father and Uncle David P. Reynolds. He proud­ly had own­er­ship in Hon­or Code and Flight­line through Wood­ford Rac­ing.

A funer­al ser­vice for Mr. Reynolds took place on Wednes­day, May 22nd at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Epis­co­pal Church locat­ed at 12291 Riv­er Road, Rich­mond, VA 23238.

In lieu of flow­ers, please con­sid­er a dona­tion to either Com­pan­ions for Heroes, 501 Glouces­ter St., Suite 102, Brunswick, GA 31520 on whose Board he served or The Eliz­a­beth Dole Foun­da­tion, 600 New Hamp­shire Avenue N.W., 10th Floor, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20037.