Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 27, 2002
SEAN BEERS is the Director of Investor Relations for Columbia
Sportswear, a position he has held since the company went public in
March 1998. He oversees general management of all investor relations
activities for the company and performs various other financial and
legal functions. Mr. Beers is a Certified Public Accountant and has been
an Investor Relations Practitioner since 1995, most recently with
Fi.Comm, Ltd., where he served as a senior consultant to more than 25
small cap companies. He is an alumnus of Aloha High School (1984) and
Linfield College (BS Accounting). Profile
TWST: Could we start with a brief overview of the history and evolutionof Columbia Sportswear Company?
Mr. Beers: Columbia Sportswear was founded in 1938 by Gert Boyle's
parents, who had