The HistoryMakers video oral history with Monte Ford.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 42 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336724
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Monte Ford
Monte Ford
Other authors / contributors:Ford, Monte, 1959- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Dallas, Texas 2004 October 29.
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Summary:Corporate executive Monte Ford was born on October 3, 1959, in Washington, D.C. He attended Augustus Paul Junior High School and graduated from Perkiomen School in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania in 1977. He earned his B.S. degree in business administration from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1982. A part time disc jockey in college, Ford worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a marketing representative from 1982 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994, he worked for the Bank of Boston becoming senior vice president for technology. At the Associates First Capital Corporation, Ford was executive vice president and CIO from 1997 to 2000. He was senior vice president and CIO of American Airlines from 2000 to 2011. He then served as executive chairman and chief executive of Aptean Software and CIO of AMR Corporation and Associates First Capital. In 2013, Ford joined the technology company Akamai, as a director.