Morton Herbert Meyerson is an American computer industry executive who held positions in the Ross Perot-founded Electronic Data Systems and subsequently at

Perot Systems Perot Systems was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States. Perot Systems provided information technology services in the industries of health ...

and General Motors. Ross Perot paid $10 million for naming rights to

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is a concert hall located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas ( USA). Ranked one of the world's greatest orchestra halls, it was designed by architect I.M. Pei and acoustician Russell Johnson's ...

, home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Early life and education

Meyerson was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1938. His mother was a pianist and actively volunteered at the Fort Worth VA Hospital. His father owned Meyerson insurance company. When he was 10, Morton's brother Sandy died from cancer. Meyerson attended

Paschal High School R. L. Paschal High School is a secondary school in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is part of the Fort Worth Independent School District, and the oldest and largest high school in Fort Worth ISD. The school is ranked 322nd in Texas and 3,892 ...

, where he played football, sang in the choir, and served as student body president. He then graduated from

The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and philosophy. At UT, he was a member of

Sigma Alpha Mu Sigma Alpha Mu (), commonly known as Sammy, is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909. Though initially founded as a Jewish organization, the fraternity dropped its religious affiliation and became open to men of a ...

, Texas Cowboys, the UT chorus, and student government.

Career

Meyerson began working for

Bell Helicopter Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, as well as commercial helicopters in M ...

in 1963, and then worked at Electronic Data Systems, Inc. from 1966 to 1971, leaving the company as President and Vice Chair. He was CEO at duPont Glore Forgan from 1971 through 1974. In 1984, he became the chief technology officer at General Motors. He retired in 1986 to pursue foundation work. Meyerson mentored

Michael Dell Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies. He is ranked the ...

during the early years of

Dell Computer Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data s ...

. He is currently a principal investor in the company RestoraPet and a mentor to its founder,

Brian Larsen Brian Larsen (born April 9, 1986, in Laurel, Maryland) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and business executive. Larsen has released ten albums, eight under the name "Twilight's Moon" and two under his own name, 2 ...

. From 1992 to 1998, he served as Chair and CEO of

. He has since served as Chairman of 2M Companies, Inc.

References

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