D arwin Deason is a self-made American billionaire who built his fortune in the information technology and business process outsourcing industry. He grew up on a farm in Arkansas and, after dropping out of college, he took a job at a data processing company. In 1988, he founded Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) with just a handful of employees.

Deason grew ACS into a global outsourcing giant, providing a wide range of services, from data processing to IT support, for businesses and governments around the world. He took the company public and, through a series of hundreds of acquisitions, built it into a Fortune 500 company. In 2010, in a life-changing deal, he sold ACS to Xerox for $6.4 billion. Since the sale, he has focused on managing his investments and is also known for owning one of the world's most luxurious superyachts, the Apogee.