BRENT C. WILLIAMS is a Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst,
with KeyBanc Capital Markets, a division of McDonald Investments. With
the company since January 2000, his research focuses on the software
industry, covering leading companies in the operating systems, data
management, middleware and business intelligence segments. Immediately
prior to joining KeyBanc Capital Markets, Mr. Williams spent three years
covering software companies at Needham & Company. He has been involved
with the software business since the late 1970s. He has built
innovative, groundbreaking products ranging from manufacturing and
financial applications to clinical medical software on a variety of
platforms from PCs to mainframes. For several years, he was an engineer
at Ingres Corporation, which was then the second largest developer of
relational database software. After several years of marketing
experience at Ingres and startups, Mr. Williams became an Industry
Analyst at IDC, leading the PC software research team when Microsoft was
introducing Windows NT, its initial enterprise operating system. He then
moved to Gartner Group, where he was a Senior Analyst in the software
development technologies group. Mr. Williams earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has also been
recognized by The Wall Street Journal’s ‘Best on the Street’ survey.
