Charles Morgan Jr.
Charles D. Morgan Jr. was longtime chief executive officer of Acxiom in Conway and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Early Life and Education
Morgan was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1943. He received a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1966.
Acxiom
Morgan joined Acxiom, then known as Demographics Inc., in 1972 as the vice president under company president and CEO Charles D. Ward.
Morgan was responsible for the transitioning of the data processing company into a billion dollar information management solutions firm. The company changed its name to CCX Network, Inc. in 1980, became a publicly traded company in 1983, and acquired its current name Acxiom Corporation in 1988.
Morgan is a former member of the board of trustees of Hendrix College, an institution to which he has donated millions of dollars. He is also a race car driver.
References
- Robert O'Harrow Jr., No Place to Hide (Simon and Schuster, 2005), 34-36.
