Carlos “Lindy” Bosch, a former president of Bacardi International, has died. Mr Bosch was 91.

Mr Bosch, a member of the Bacardi family, was instrumental in the relocation of the Cuban-born drinks dynasty to a new home in Bermuda in 1965.

Bacardi, founded in Cuba in 1862, was forced from its homeland in the wake of the Cuban revolution of 1959 after its leader, Fidel Castro, introduced a hardline Communist regime and nationalised private property without compensation.

Mr Bosch moved to Florida with his family and persuaded his father, José “Pepín” Bosch, the grandson-in-law of Bacardi founder Don Facundo Bacardí Massó and then president of the company, to set up in Bermuda.

Mr Bosch told The Royal Gazette at the 50th anniversary of Bacardi in Bermuda in 2015 that it took two years to convince his father to move the company to the island.

He added: “Somehow or other, the small team we had gelled and it just worked.”

The original staff of five grew to 65 over five decades and Bacardi’s modernist global headquarters on Pitts Bay Road, originally designed by world-renowned Mies van der Rohe for construction in Cuba, became a landmark.

Mr Bosch retired in 1975.

A requiem mass for Mr Bosch, a father of four, will be held at 2pm tomorrow at St Theresa’s Cathedral, Cedar Avenue, Hamilton.