Rank #252
David Steward
Net worth $12.4B
IT provider · United States
- Born
- Jan 01, 1970
- Age
- 56
- Source
- IT provider
- Residence
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Central Missouri State University
Net worth over time
Biography
- David Steward is the founder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology.
- Steward grew up in the segregated South with seven siblings; his father worked as a mechanic, janitor and trash collector.
- After graduating from Central Missouri University, he worked in sales for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific and FedEx before cofounding World Wide Technology in 1990.
- In the early days, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck and once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot.
- Today, he is the majority owner of the $20 billion (sales) company, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.
- Steward donated $1.3 million to the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2018 to create the David and Thelma Steward Institute for Jazz Studies.
- Steward's daughter was a producer of the 2016 movie Manchester by the Sea.
- Steward's son is the CEO of Polarity and Lion Forge, companies that produces comics, animation and other kinds of entertainment featuring diverse characters.