Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 27, 2003

Eric Brown – Microstrategy Inc (mstr)

ERIC F. BROWN has served as President and Chief Financial Officer of MicroStrategy Inc. since November 2000 and August 2000, respectively. Mr. Brown originally joined the company as Chief Financial Officer of the Strategy.com subsidiary in February 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served as Division Chief Financial Officer and then Division Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts from October 1998 until February 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Brown was co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of DataSage, Inc. from 1995 until October 1998. Mr. Brown also held several senior financial positions with Grand Metropolitan from 1990 until 1995. Mr. Brown received an MBA from the Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief history and an overview of

MicroStrategy Inc.?

Mr. Brown: MicroStrategy was founded in 1989, and emerged as one

of the first business intelligence software