>NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2000--
The most influential men and women in e-commerce
Tim Koogle of Yahoo!, Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman of eBay and 19-year-old Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning head this year's business week "e.biz 25"--the second annual list of the men and women most influential in shaping e-commerce and the Web. The cover story of the May 15 issue of BUSINESS WEEK, to be published Friday, honors those from the entire realm of e-business--empire builders, architects, bankrollers, innovators, visionaries and pacesetters. Last year's list was dominated by e-tailers and the infrastructure builders who served them. However, business to business e-commerce dominates this year's e.biz 25. Sinjiv Sidhu of software vendor i2, Mark Hoffman of Commerce One, and Mark Walsh of VerticalNet are among the newcomers to BUSINESS WEEK'S list. There's also Jeff Skilling, who has used the Web to help transform Enron from a sleepy energy company into a leading power broker.
This year the stock market panic put a lot of dot-com entrepreneurs, not to mention investors who bet on them, to the test. The wild, drunken party on Wall Street may be over, but e-business marches on. Indeed many Internet companies seem poised for a new surge of growth. So, what separates the winners from the losers? Business Week says, "A me-too strategy is certainly a recipe for failure. Beyond that, it's clear that organizations and ideas won't thrive without talented, tough and persistent leaders."
The 2000 Business Week e.biz 25 are:
Empire Builders
Tim Koogle, Chairman & CEO, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Meg Whitman, President & CEO, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, America Online (NYSE: AOL)
Architects
Robert Knowling, Chairman & CEO, Covad Communications (Nasdaq: COVD) Ed Zander, President & COO, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) Sanjiv Sidhu, Chairman & CEO, i2 Technologies (Nasdaq: ITWO) Jean-Marie Messier, CEO, Vivendi (OTC: VVDIY), France John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Keiichi Enoki, Director, Gateway Business Dept., DoCoMo, Japan Mark Hoffman, Chairman & CEO, Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC)
Bankrollers
Masayoshi Son, President & CEO, Softbank, Japan Jim Breyer, Managing Partner, Accel Partners Vinod Khosla, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Richard Li, Chairman, Pacific Century CyberWorks (OTC: PCCLF), Hong Kong Walter Buckley III, CEO, Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE)
Innovators
Shawn Fanning, Co-founder, software engineer, Napster Inc. Mark Walsh, President & CEO, VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT)
Visionaries
Mary Modahl, Vice President, Marketing, Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center Larry Lessig, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School Mohanbir Sawhney, Professor at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Pace Setters
Harold Kutner, Group VP of Worldwide Purchasing, General Motors (NYSE: GM) Jeffrey Skilling, President and COO, Enron (NYSE: ENE)
Note: The Business Week e.biz 25 will be posted in Business Week Online on Thursday evening, May 4, 2000 (http://ebiz.businessweek.com).
Launched in March 1999, Business Week e.biz covers trends, developments and critical issues in the emerging world of electronic business. With B2B ascendant, our next issue, in June, will devote a Special Report to the e-marketplaces that are changing the way buyers and sellers in nearly every industry do deals. Count on more special reports in the coming months as e.biz, originally a quarterly, goes monthly with the May 15th issue.
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