Jim Kavanaugh

About Jim Kavanaugh

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.