Scient was a San Francisco-based Internet

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 consulting

Consultant

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 company, founded in 1997, that was one of the large American consulting firms during the dot-com bubble

Dot-com bubble

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. The company was founded by Eric Greenberg, who had previously founded its competitor, Viant

Viant

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. Its CEO was Robert Howe, the former head of IBM global consulting. At its height in the fall of 2000, it had quarterly revenues of US$100 million, 1,180 employees and a stock price of US$133. In August 2001, it bought rival company iXL; by then its quarterly revenues were down to US$11 million.

In July 2002, the company filed for bankruptcy and was bought by SBI and Company, which became SBI Group. SBI Group later sold Scient with the other members of Avenue A/Razorfish

Avenue A/Razorfish

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 to a company called aQuantive

AQuantive

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. aQuantive, in turn, was bought by Microsoft

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 in August 2007 and became Microsoft's newly-created Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) Group.

Staff

At the time of the IPO in May 1999, the management team was reported as:

• Eric Greenberg, Chairman and Founder
• Robert M. Howe, President & Chief Executive Officer
• Stephen A. Mucchetti, Chief Operating Officer
• William H. Kurtz, Chief Financial Officer
• Robert N. Beck, Vice President, People
• Diana L. Brown, Vice President, Financial Services
• Nicholas J. DiGiacomo, Vice President, Electronic Markets
• Aron Dutta, Vice President, Enterprise Markets
• C. Scott Frisbie, Chief Technology Officer
• Joseph C. Galuszka, Vice President, Recruiting
• Andres Gutierrez, Master Architect
• Douglas I. Kalish, Chief Knowledge Officer
• William P. Kim, Vice President, Operations
• Christopher W. Lochhead, Chief Marketing Officer
• Randall McComas, Vice President, Telecommunications
• James McKee, Vice President, Sales
• Brian Thornton, Technology Director, Optin Marketing
• Jeff B. Van Zanten, Vice President, Finance and Administration

External links

• "Scient's Near-Death Experience", Fast Company
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