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Prior to joining Benchmark, Mr. Williams was with Keybanc.
Mr. Williams joined Keybank in January 2000, he lead software research, covering leading companies in the operating systems, data management, middleware and business intelligence segments.
Immediately prior to joining, 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.
Former positions of Brent C. Williams
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MI 2009, Inc.
 MI 2009, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing MI 2009, Inc. sells plastics processing equipment and supplies. Its principal activity is supplying plastics-processing technologies and industrial fluids. The company was founded on March 19, 1884 and is headquartered in Batavia, OH. | Director/Board Member | 01/10/2007 |
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.
 KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies. | Analyst-Equity | 14/06/2006 |
Needham & Co. LLC
 Needham & Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies. | Analyst-Equity | 31/12/1999 |
The Benchmark Co. LLC
 The Benchmark Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1988 by Richard Messina, the Benchmark Co. LLC is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading services for institutional and private clients. They focus on the media, energy, enterprise software, infrastructure software, biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, REITs, Internet and communications sectors. The Benchmark Co.'s clearing agent is JP Morgan Clearing Corp. | Analyst-Equity | - |
Training of Brent C. Williams
| University of California, Berkeley | Undergraduate Degree |
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KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies. | Finance |
Needham & Co. LLC
Needham & Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies. | Finance |
The Benchmark Co. LLC
The Benchmark Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1988 by Richard Messina, the Benchmark Co. LLC is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading services for institutional and private clients. They focus on the media, energy, enterprise software, infrastructure software, biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, REITs, Internet and communications sectors. The Benchmark Co.'s clearing agent is JP Morgan Clearing Corp. | Finance |
MI 2009, Inc.
MI 2009, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing MI 2009, Inc. sells plastics processing equipment and supplies. Its principal activity is supplying plastics-processing technologies and industrial fluids. The company was founded on March 19, 1884 and is headquartered in Batavia, OH. | Producer Manufacturing |
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