David Turner Honored as DSU Distinguished Alumnus at MEAC

David G. Turner, DSU Board of Trustees chairman and University alumni,  was honored among this Year’s Distinguished Alumni at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Basketball Tournament on March 12 in Norfolk, Va. .

The MEAC annually recognizes the top alumni from all the member institutions of the conference.

Mr. Turner, who graduated from then-Delaware State College in 1986 with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, earlier this year became the first DSU graduate to be an elected chairman of the Board of Trustees, succeeding Dr. Claibourne Smith, who had been chair for 22 years.  Mr. Turner, who previously served as vice chair, has been a DSU board member since 2008.

The DSU alumnus has enjoyed a highly successful career in executive posts with AT&T, Gateway, MBNA, and Bank of America, and currently is an executive with IBM, where he leads the company’s IBM’s Business Administration Organization Practice for financial services clients.

Mr. Turner is renowned as a leader in banking and financial services circles nationwide for his expertise in data management and analytics. He was recognized by Fortune magazine in 2002 as one of the “50 most Powerful Black Executives in America,” as well as by U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology in 2005 as one of the “50 Most Important Blacks in Technology.”