Rank #491
Jim Kavanaugh
Net worth $7.7B
IT provider · United States
- Born
- Oct 17, 1962
- Age
- 63
- Source
- IT provider
- Residence
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, St. Louis University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jim Kavanaugh is the CEO of IT provider World Wide Technology.
- With David Steward, he started the St. Louis-based company in 1990 by selling computers and printers to telecom companies like AT&T.
- Kavanaugh personally fulfilled one of the company's first orders by renting a truck and driving 500 PCs to Omaha.
- WWT is now a $20 billion (sales) company that sells software and hardware to customers including Citi, Verizon and the federal government.
- Before starting WWT, Kavanaugh was a professional soccer player and was on the 1984 Olympic team.
- Kavanaugh was appointed to the board of St. Louis-based Stifel Financial in 2022.
- Kavanaugh is part owner of the St. Louis Blues NHL team and a new Major League Soccer expansion team in St. Louis, announced in August 2019.