Louis.” Do you have any issues recruiting top tech talent to live in St. Your slogan is “Experience Silicon Valley in St. We can’t find the right people fast enough. We’re adding employees across the full spectrum of our business, from networks to architecture to engineering. So are you adding head count to your cybersecurity team? So the bad guys are pivoting to digital too? From federal, state and local, to utilities, to health care, every sector has been just hammered with cyberattacks. What areas are you seeing have stepped up demand?Ĭyberattacks have gone up over 100%, so our security practice has skyrocketed. (This interview with World Wide Technology chairman Dave Steward has been condensed and edited for clarity.) It’s become a truism that the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digitalization by five years. Subscribe to The Leadership Brief by clicking here. Steward recently joined TIME for a video conversation on the impact of COVID on his business, why he has chosen to keep WWT private and how his father inspired his entrepreneurial zeal. With more than 5,600 employees and offices around the globe, the company is the largest Black-owned business in America. His privately owned $12 billion company, World Wide Technology (WWT), is thriving in the current COVID-19 environment, helping a broad range of corporations select and install complex computer systems and other digital infrastructure. And Steward, 69, is the rare Black chairman in an industry that has struggled with diversity, particularly at senior levels.
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