Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 27, 2002

Sean Beers – Columbia Sportswear Company (colm)

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 evolution

of Columbia Sportswear Company?

Mr. Beers: Columbia Sportswear was founded in 1938 by Gert Boyle's

parents, who had