David Steward

David Steward is the cofounder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology.In 1990, he put up $250,000 he earned from two previous auditing ventures to start the St. Louis-based business.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.