BulkMarkets.com Names James Tanner To Board of Directors; B2B Exchange Adds Outside Director With Financial Data Technology Experience.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2000 BulkMarkets.com, a B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business exchange of specialty agricultural commodities sold in bulk, has named James Tanner James Tanner (born in Kent 1976?) is a British chef. He currently appears on the BBC programme Ready Steady Cook. Early Life After studying hotel management he worked in the kitchens of several well-known restaurants, often with his older brother Chris. to its Board of Directors. Tanner is 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 Wall Street On Demand, which he founded and later sold to Bridge Information Systems, the second largest Market Data Terminal provider worldwide. Wall Street On Demand, now based in Boulder, Colorado The City of Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Boulder is the 11th most populous city in the State of Colorado, as well as the most populous city and the county , provides financial data to investors on behalf of clients that include Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
"We are very happy to have Jim join the BulkMarkets.com board," said CEO Mike MacDougal. " His experience in the financial markets is directly applicable to what we are doing in agriculture." BulkMarkets.com is implementing a real-time B2B Web strategy to become the primary international market maker for bulk agricultural products such as wine, juice concentrate and nuts. Industry-specific BulkMarkets.com sites will enable producers and packagers to access up-to-date market information on product pricing, volume, movement and availability and then use that information to buy and sell online. The company's patent-pending technology recently won two e-Millennium awards for best e-business application at COMDEX/Spring 2000. Its first vertical hub - WorldWineTrade.com - will debut at the London International Wine Trade Fair in mid-May. "Jim is uniquely qualified to help us take the exchange of agricultural products like bulk wine into the 21st century," said Jeff Walker, president of BulkMarkets.com. " We will succeed by mirroring real world trading practices while using the Internet to increase their efficiency." Tanner graduated from Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. in 1986 and worked in investment banking before starting Wall Street On Demand. He is also on the board of Fiberesin and Client Systems. He joins existing BulkMarkets.com board members, MacDougal, Walker, Kirby Bartlett, Vice President of Bay City Capital, and Christopher Girgenti, Managing Director of New World Ventures. BulkMarkets.com has been growing rapidly since completing its first round of institutional funding last month led by Bay City Capital's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Nutrition and Agribusiness Fund with other investors including New World Ventures and William Blair & Company. |
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