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Morton H. Meyerson is chair of 2M Companies, LLC, a family office which he founded in 1983, and of The Morton H. Meyerson Family Foundation.www.2M.com He retired from the corporate world in 1998, after serving as head of several significant business institutions.https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/12/business/chief-of-perot-systems-steps-aside-as-part-of-expansion.html. He has served on the board of the Dallas Symphony for many years, and the performance hall of the Dallas Symphony Hall is named in his honor. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2000/march/the-mort-the-making-of-the-meyerson

Career His career began at Bell Helicopter, but he soon joined Ross Perot's start-up Electronic Data Systems as a systems engineer trainee in 1966. He became vice president in 1968, and he rose to become president and vice chair of EDS, leading the company from 8,000 to 45,000 employees and growing the company's revenue from $270 million to $4.5 billion. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/business/l-who-build- perot-s-ship-907138.html He facilitated the sale of EDS to General Motors in 1984, and he served as the chief technology office for all of GM for more than two years.[1]

He rejoined Ross Perot in 1992 as chairman and CEO of Perot Systems, which he led from revenues of $100 million to $1 billion over the next six years before he retired from the corporate world.https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/business/l-who-built-perot-s-ship-907138.html

Early Life and Education He was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1938, the son of 19th Century immigrants from Russia and Germany. Educated in local public schools, Meyerson holds the Bachelor of Arts in economics and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. https://books.google.com/books?id=LOMDAAAAMBAJ He served as an officer in the U. S. Army, where he was introduced to the emerging field of computer programming, which defined his later career.https://2m.com/

Personal Life Meyerson has two daughters, two sons-in-law and six grandchildren. His son David Nathan Meyerson died in 1998.https://2m.com/