Technology >> Sector Roundtables >> February 17, 2003
Since April 2000, JEFFREY R. FIELER has served as a Managing
Director and the Mobile and Consumer Internet Analyst in the
equity research department at Bear, Stearns & Co. Previously, he
held the positions of Assistant Vice President and Associate at
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, also in equity research, following the
business-to-business e-commerce sector. Prior to that, Mr. Fieler
spent a year working at KPMG doing consultative research for the
asset management practice. From 1993 through 1997, he held
various positions, including analyst for Pilatus Financial, a
firm specializing in takeover arbitrage. He holds a BA in
Economics from Brown University, an MBA from New York University
and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Profile
SHAWN MILNE is a Senior Analyst in consumer technology research
at SoundView Technology Group. He has 11 years of Wall Street
experience ' three years at SoundView, five years in research at
Hambrecht & Quist and three years in sales and trading at Salomon
Brothers. He received his BS in Finance from Colorado State
University and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at
the University of North Carolina. Profile
KENT ALLEN, Research Director of Aberdeen Group, provides
analysis and assessment of B2B and B2C Internet commerce and EDI
solutions that support multichannel catalog, product content, and
order management, as well as other marketing and sales processes.
He also covers Internet advertising, e-marketing, and related
digital direct marketing technologies. He worked previously as a
market strategy consultant for San Francisco Bay area Internet
technology companies. He also spent six years as a Senior
Reporter for McGraw-Hill's Information Services, where he helped
launch McGraw-Hill's pre-Internet foray into the electronic
distribution of marketing data and architectural and construction
contract information to a global audience. He has published works
on Internet marketing technologies since 1995. He has an MBA from
the University of Washington, where he was awarded the Frankland
Marketing Scholarship, and he holds a BA in History and English
from the University of Virginia. Profile
TWST: Shawn, it seems as if e-commerce had a pretty good fourthquarter. What's your view on that and how good was it?
Mr. Milne: Overall online commerce was better than good in that
quarter,