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Find Biographical Information on a Director or Officer of a Company Using Directories
TOPIC: Several databases on Dialog are good sources of biographical information on the directors or officers of companies. Some databases provide only basic biographical data, while others may include extensive biographical articles on specific individuals.
Directory databases often include a large number of biographical profiles, but they may provide only basic information about a particular director or officer. Most of the files listed below contain a Name field (either NM or NA) that can be used to locate biographical entries. Search examples are provided for the following files: Marquis Who's Who (File 234) and D&B Duns Financial Records Plus™ (File 519).
Note: In File 519, the company history section of a record includes a list of some of the officers, as well as a few lines of biographical information. Since this file does not have a Name field, the best strategy is to perform a free-text search on the person's name and combine it with the company name, if known (e.g., s marc(2n)andreessen and netscape/co).
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 234
EXPAND NM=GATES, WILLIAM
SELECT E3:E8
EXPAND NM=GATES, BILL
SELECT E3
SELECT S1 OR S2
SELECT S3 AND CO=MICROSOFT?
TYPE S4/9/1
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN in File 234, Marquis Who's Who.
2. EXPAND the NM= field to determine if the person of interest is covered in the database.
Note: You may have to try different spellings of a name to be comprehensive.
3. SELECT all E numbers that may pertain to the person of interest. |
?b 234
File 234:Marquis Who`s Who(r) 2007/Mar
(c) 2007 Reed Elsevier Inc.
Set Items Description
--- ----- -----------
?e nm=gates, william
Ref Items Index-term
E1 1 NM=GATES, VIOLA R.
E2 1 NM=GATES, WALTER EDWARD
E3 1 *NM=GATES, WILLIAM
E4 1 NM=GATES, WILLIAM ALLMAN
E5 1 NM=GATES, WILLIAM CHESTER BRUCE
E6 1 NM=GATES, WILLIAM CYRIL
E7 1 NM=GATES, WILLIAM HENRY
E8 1 NM=GATES, WILLIAM SIMON
E9 1 NM=GATESMAN, ANDREW JOSEPH
E10 1 NM=GATEV, GEO IVANOV
. . . .
Enter P or PAGE for more
?s e3:e8
S1 6 NM='GATES, WILLIAM':NM='GATES, WILLIAM SIMON' |
4. EXPAND again using another form of the person's name.
Note: In Biography Master (File 287), NA= is used to find the person's name.
5. SELECT the appropriate E number. |
?e nm=gates, bill
Ref Items Index-term
E1 1 NM=GATES, BERT LAWRENCE
E2 1 NM=GATES, BETTY RUSSELL
E3 1 *NM=GATES, BILL
E4 1 NM=GATES, BRENDA LEE
E5 1 NM=GATES, BRENT ROBERT
Enter P or PAGE for more
?s e3
S2 1 NM='GATES, BILL' |
6. Combine the two sets using the OR connector.
7. Include the company name of the person if you know it. Use CO= and a question mark at the end of the company name to retrieve all forms of the company name.
Alternatively, you can search the company name using the /CO suffix (e.g., microsoft/co). |
?s s1 or s2
6 S1
1 S2
S3 7 S1 OR S2
?s s3 and co=microsoft?
7 S3
347 CO=MICROSOFT?
S4 1 S3 AND CO=MICROSOFT? |
8. TYPE the record using Format 9 to retrieve the entire record.
A portion of this record is omitted from the display. |
?t s4/9/1
4/9/1
DIALOG(R)File 234: Marquis Who`s Who(r)
(c) 2007 Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
00000987
Gates, Bill
( Gates, Bill )
Record Status: ACTIVE
Marquis Volume:
Who's Who in the West 34
Who's Who in the West 33
Who's Who in the West 32
Who's Who in the West 31
Who's Who in the West 30
. . . .
Occupation: computer software company executive
Born: Oct. 28, 1955 Seattle
Parents: William H. and Mary M. (Maxwell) G.
Family: married Melinda French, January 1, 1994; children,
Jennifer Katherine, Rory John, Phoebe Adele.
Sex: Male
Education:
grad. Seattle 1973
student Harvard U. 1973-75
Career:
founder Corbis 1989
chief software architect Microsoft Corp. Redmond Wash.
2000-2006 CEO Microsoft Corp. Redmond Wash. 1981-2000
exec. v.p. development activities Microsoft Corp. Redmond
Wash. 1982-1983
chmn. bd. Microsoft Corp. Redmond Wash. 1981-
pres. Microsoft Corp. Redmond Wash. 1977-1982
gen. ptnr. Microsoft Corp. Redmond Wash. 1975-1977
co-founder Microsoft Corp. (formerly Micro Soft) Albuquerque
1975
co-founder Traf-O-Data Co. Seattle 1972-1973
Career Related:
Bd. dirs. ICOS Corp., 1990-, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., 2004-;
spkr. Consumer Electronics Show, 2006; spkr. in field
Civic/Military Information:
Author: The Future, 1994, The Road Ahead, 1995 (held the No. 1
spot on the NY Times' bestseller list for seven weeks),
Business at the Speed of Thought, 1999 (listed on the
best-seller lists of NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street
Journal and Amazon.com.).
Awards:
Founder William H. Gates Found., 1994-2000; co-founder Gates
Learning Found. (formerly Gates Library Found.), 1997-2000,
Bill and Melinda Gates Found., 2000-; sponsor Code4Bill, a
contest to identify software students in India, offering as
top prize an internship with the Microsoft tech. team for a
year., 2005; pledged $900 million to fight tuberculosis, 2006
Memberships:
Recipient Howard Vollum award, Reed Coll., Portland, Oreg.,
1984, Nat. medal Tech. U.S. Dept. Commerce Tech. Adminstrn.,
1992, Hon. Knighthood, UK, 2005; named CEO of Yr., Chief
Executive mag., 1994; named one of Top 200 Collectors,
ARTnews Mag., 2004, 100 Most Influential People, Time mag.,
2005, 06, World's Richest People, Forbes Mag., 1996-, Forbes
Richest Ams. 2006, 50 Who Matter Now, CNNMoney.com Bus. 2.0,
2006; named one of three Persons of Yr., Time Mag., 2005.
RESEARCH INTERESTS/SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Avocations: Collector
19th Century Am. Art, reading, golf, bridge
Mailing Address:
MAILING ADDRESS:
Office
Microsoft Corp
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond
WA
98052-8300 |
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