Charles morgan acxiom biography book
Charles D. Morgan is the visionary former Chairman and CEO of Acxiom Corporation, a world leader in data gathering and its accompanying technology..
My Story
"It is a messy story.
In the big picture, this could be called a narrative of America since World War II. But in the micro telling, think of it this way: The man who opened your lives to Big Data finally bares his own."
Charles D.
Morgan
Matters of Life and Data
Mother, Father, my little brother, Speer, and me, in the early 1950s in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Charles D. Morgan's Now What?
My father worked at Speer Hardware, Mother’s family business, where he was browbeaten by my pompous Uncle Ralph, who’d been born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth and looked down on anyone who really had to work.
In 1953, largely to stake out a measure of independence, Father bought a small, 10-room motel, and we moved in as owner/operators. Father still worked at the hardware store, but now he wasn’t totally controlled by Uncle Ralph.
The motel—we had five two-room units like this one—was a life laboratory for me.
I started working there at age 10