4 days ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
Morton Meyerson, Who Helped Build Ross Perot's EDS Into a Powerhouse, Dies at 87
It started with a game of bridge in 1961.
Mort Meyerson, a recent liberal-arts graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, was doing his Army service as a lieutenant and had no career plan. He happened to play in a bridge tournament with a civilian Army employee responsible for data processing.