
Steward holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Central Missouri State University. Louis Area Council Boy Scouts of America, Harris-Stowe State College African American Business Leadership Council, INROADS and New Cornerstone. Louis Science Center, Union Memorial Outreach Center, the United Way of Greater St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, Missouri Technology Corporation, BJC Health System, St. He serves on numerous additional committees and boards, including 21st Century Workforce, Civic Progress of St. He serves as a Trustee of Webster University. He serves as a Director of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Louis Symphony Orchestra since December 2012. Steward has been a Director of Centene Corp. He had been an Independent Director of First Banks Inc since 2000 until June 25th 2013. since January 2000 and serves as its Director. Steward has been the Chairman of the Board of, Inc./, L.L.C. since 1990, having co-founded it in July 1990. He has been Chairman of World Wide Technology, Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Steward served various senior level management positions with Wagner Electric, Missouri Pacific Railroad and Federal Express Corporation. (WWT) in July 1990 and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1990. Steward Co-founded World Wide Technology Inc. Steward was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on December 18, 2006.Mr. Steward and his wife, Thelma, have two children. In 2004, Steward published Doing Business by The Good Book, which matches scripture with guidelines for business practices. Louis Regional Chamber, Civic Progress of St. Louis and serves on the board of the Global Leadership Forum, St. He is chairman emeritus of Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis Area Council Boy Scouts of America, executive board member of Central Region and vice president and executive board member of National Boy Scouts of America. Steward is a member of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans the council board chair for the Greater St. They also appeared on the 2018 Best Workplace in Technology list by Great Place to Work, Forbes’ Largest Private Companies list and placed eighth on Glassdoor’s 2018 Best Places to Work. In 2018, WWT made Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the seventh consecutive year. WWT provides advanced technology solutions from over 3,000 manufacturers to the commercial, government and telecom sectors. In 1990, Steward founded World Wide Technology, Inc., specializing in cloud capabilities, data center and virtualization, security, mobility and networking technologies along with voice, video and collaboration solutions. Steward later founded Transport Administrative Services, which was hired by Union Pacific Railroad in 1987, to audit three years of freight bills for undercharges, managing nearly $15 billion of rate information.

In 1984, Steward founded Transportation Business Specialists, Inc., which audited and reviewed freight-bill and overcharges for the railroad industry. Steward is the author of Doing Business by the Good Book (3.86 avg rating, 102 ratings, 12 reviews, published 2004), Leadership by the Good Book. Steward remained with the company until 1979 when he joined Federal Express and served as a senior account executive. In 1976, Steward accepted a marketing and sales position with the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, as the first African American in that role. In 1974, Steward was hired at Wagner Electric, but was laid off the following year.


degree in business administration from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1973.Īfter graduation, Steward worked as a substitute teacher and served as an associate executive for the Boy Scouts of America. He graduated from Clinton High School in Clinton, Missouri in 1969 and received his B.S. was born on July 2, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. Technology entrepreneur David Steward, Sr.
