David Steward

David L. Steward is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, Inc., one of the largest African-American-owned businesses in America. Steward is one of five black billionaires in America, being 745th in the Forbes Billionaires 2019 list.

• David Steward is the cofounder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology.
• In the early days, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck and once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot.
• Today Steward is majority owner of the $11.2 billion (sales) company, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.
• He grew up in the segregated South with seven siblings; his father worked as a mechanic, janitor and trash collector.
• 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.