Technology >> Analyst Interviews >> October 22, 2002

Enterprise Infrastructure Software: Sarah Mattson – Rbc Capital Markets

SARAH MATTSON is a Senior Research Analyst focusing on Enterprise Infrastructure Software for RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Capital Markets' technology team. Before joining RBC, Ms. Mattson had been a Research Analyst at Warburg Dillon Read in San Francisco from 1998, where she was part of the Enterprise and Internet Software team. Prior to joining Warburg Dillon Read, Ms. Mattson was a Business Strategist for Silicon Graphics Incorporated of Mountain View, California, which followed a two-year stint in Europe, first as part of an MBA exchange program and then working for Allianz Aktiengesellschaft, developing new product programs for Allianz's European subsidiaries. Prior to that, Ms. Mattson spent two years with a high technology consulting company in the San Francisco area, where she helped energy systems startups develop commercialization and marketing strategies, and three years with Ford Motor Company as a Process Engineer. Ms. Mattson received a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. Profile
TWST: Sarah, how do you define enterprise and application

software?

Ms. Mattson: We think of enterprise software as falling into a

few generic buckets: applications, infrastructure software