Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 21, 2001
PETER PERVERE, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
Commerce One, Inc., has over 15 years of financial services experience,
and joined Commerce One in April 1997. Prior to Commerce One, Mr.
Pervere was Vice President and Corporate Controller at Sybase. During
his tenure, Sybase grew from a $2 million company to a greater than $1
billion company. Mr. Pervere became an officer of Sybase in 1991 and was
promoted to Vice President and Corporate Controller in 1992. Before
joining Sybase, Mr. Pervere was an audit manager for Ernst & Young LLP. Profile
TWST: Could we start out by your giving us a brief overview of CommerceOne?
Mr. Pervere: Commerce One was actually started in 1994 by a father-son
team who had gotten interested in