ADVISORY/Leaders of the New Economy Testify At Hearing on Accounting in the New Economy.Business Editors ADVISORY ... THURSDAY (Feb. 3) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 Leaders of the New Economy will testify Thursday that proposed changes to long-standing corporate accounting rules could make it tougher for technology companies to build and grow, potentially hurting a leading driver of U.S. economic growth. WHO: Roberta Katz, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TechNet Jim Barksdale Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999. Early life James (Jim) Love Barksdale was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He received a B.A. , President, The Barksdale Group John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers Ariel Kleckner, Founder and President, Red Gorilla Sam Harrell, Vice-President of SBD SBD - Smart Battery Data , KLA-Tencor Bob Dykes, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , Flextronics International George Scalise, President, Semiconductor Industry Assoc. Dennis Powell, Cisco Systems Thomas C. McConnell, Partner, New Enterprise Associates Gene Hoffman, President, Emusic.com R. Douglas Norby, CFO, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Corporation WHAT: These leaders will appear before the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB FASB See: Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB See Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). ), a private sector standard-setting body supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission. WHERE: Fairmont Hotel 950 Mason Street San Francisco, CA WHEN: Thursday, February 3, 2000, 8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. TechNet is a network of senior executives of the nation's leading companies. TechNet members include chief executive officers and senior partners of companies in the fields of information technology, biotechnology, venture capital, investment banking, and law. The mission is to engage policy makers and industry leaders in a dialogue about New Economy issues. |
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