David L. Steward is the Chairman of WWT, which he founded in 1990. With more than three decades of experience in the technology industry, David spends the majority of his time developing strategic supplier, customer and employee relationships. He plays a key role in WWT’s pursuit of large contract bids within its industry specific operating companies.

Jim Kavanaugh is the co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology. Kavanaugh and his management team have guided WWT from a small startup into a world-class organization with more than 7,000 employees. Kavanaugh currently focuses his time in the areas of technology innovation, long-term planning, strategic acquisitions, financial performance, employee development and passionately overseeing WWT’s unique corporate culture.

Joe has over 31 years of experience in the information technology industry. As President, he directs and manages all sales, marketing, business operations and professional services. He is responsible for managing relationships with key business partners and customers while setting the overall strategy of the business.

Tom Strunk has nearly 20 years of industry experience, serving as WWT’s Vice President of Finance from 1994 until October 1999. From 1999 to 2002, Tom served as CFO for Telcobuy. As current CFO for WWT, he directs and manages the WWT finance and accounting operations and oversees a staff of accounting and financial managers.

As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Services, Mike Taylor oversees WWT’s Global Engineering and IT organization and Services segment to position WWT as a single-source provider to accelerate digital transformation. Mike aligns WWT’s unparalleled technical capabilities with its collective business acumen to both advise and execute customers as they seek to become more agile and innovative.

As Executive Vice President of Global Human Resources, Ann Marr oversees all human resources functions, which include talent management, policy development, benefits administration, training, leadership development and employee relations as well as managing the company’s supplier diversity program.

Retired Army Lieutenant General Robert S. (Bob) Ferrell serves as Vice President of Federal Strategy at World Wide Technology (WWT), a position he has held since October 2017. Ferrell is highly regarded as a visionary leader who has led communications and IT missions in times of peace as well as war.

Erika Schenk joined WWT in 2014. Erika has responsibility for managing all legal activities and leading the various compliance efforts within the company. Before joining WWT, Erika spent three years at The Boeing Company, where she served as Senior Counsel. Prior to her time at Boeing, Erika spent 14 years in private practice at Bryan Cave LLP, where she was a partner in the corporate/transactional groups, and served as leader of the firm’s Commercial Practice team.

As Vice President of Corporate Business Development, Bob Olwig has company-wide responsibility for leading global partner alliances. Bob joined WWT in 1996, and from 1999 to 2002 Bob served as CTO for Telcobuy.com. Bob has more than 38 years of experience in the information technology industry, including various technical, marketing, sales and sales management responsibilities at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation and Novell.

Sara Goellner has been with WWT since 1999 and is the SVP of Marketing & Chief of Staff to our CEO. Sara has held a variety of technology and business management roles, including leading the digitization of our innovation ecosystem, the Advanced Technology Center. Sara is currently focused on our digital and brand objectives, which include evolving our GTM strategy and sharing our message and value regarding combining infrastructure and software capabilities to drive technology and business outcomes and Make a New World Happen for our customers, partners and communities.

Matt Horner leads WWT’s Commercial Sales organization as Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Sales. In his 19 years at World Wide Technology, Matt has led the Professional Services group, fostered our Cisco alliance relationship, spearheaded development of our East enterprise business and has been a catalyst for global expansion in Europe and Asia. In 2010, he was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of its top “40 under 40” young executives in the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

As SVP of Public Sector, Bryan Thomas is responsible for WWT’s federal, state and local government and education organizations. In his role, Bryan is accountable for developing and maintaining relationships with customers, key vendors, prime integrators and vertical partners. Bryan is focused on providing clarity, direction, accountability and education to the field sales team for WWT.

Kraig Ecker leads World Wide Technology’s Global Service Provider organization, which enables service providers to deliver next-generation technology platforms through WWT’s idea to outcome-based approach and global fulfillment capabilities. As Senior Vice President, Kraig has leveraged his deep industry expertise and relationships with executive-level Fortune 500 accounts to remarkable growth, taking our Service Provider business from $1.5B to over 86% growth, with investment in the Emerging Service Providers.

As Vice President of Program Management, Chester Gloyd has responsibility for managing start-up, continuous improvement and profitability of major supply chain programs. Chester joined WWT in 1998 from Andersen Consulting. From 1999 to 2004, Chester ran WWT’s business consulting practice, taking responsibility for the Program Management team in 2005.

Jeree Hanavec has been with WWT for over 15 years, providing strong leadership and expertise in many different operational areas under global supply chain and ordering. In her current role as VP, Global Operations, Jeree oversees WWT’s Supply Chain Operations and Global Order Operations teams.

Mark Donnel has over 25 years of experience in the field of accounting and finance. Mark began his career at Arthur Andersen and Company, where he served as an audit manager. Prior to joining WWT, Mark was an audit partner at a local St. Louis accounting firm, where he served as the partner in charge of the audit division. Donnel is also responsible for treasury management, financial reporting and operations as well as accounting operations. 

As Vice President of Sales Operations, Tim Loughman has corporate responsibility for Global Sales Operations as well as executive-level leadership and reinforcement of WWT’s Integrated Management and Leadership program. Tim oversees all aspects of Global Sales Operations including inside sales, pre-sales technical services, asset and lifecycle management operations, business analytics, contract management, sales ops automation and pre- and post-sales customer service support.

Tom Gain joined World Wide Technology in 2001. Since then, Tom has played a key role in building out our program and delivery management capabilities. Under Tom’s leadership, our annual services revenue has grown significantly.