DecisionPoint : Founders

Kathy Ellis was a founder of DecisionPoint. Working in investment banking since 1980, she served DecisionPoint as a Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to founding DecisionPoint, she was head of corporate finance, a Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors for Hanifen Imhoff, Inc. (Stifel Nicolaus). Ellis successfully managed transactions totaling more than $500 million over the last two years. Before joining Hanifen Imhoff, she served ten years in corporate finance and research with Morgan Stanley & Co. In addition to executing public offerings and M&A for more than thirty companies, including Nortel, Comcast, TRW and Reuters, Ellis also led Morgan Stanley's initiative to develop U.S. equity offerings of foreign companies. While leading this group, she successfully managed British Telecom's multi-billion dollar privatization. She was elected to the Institutional Investor's All American Research Team and the Who's Who in International Banking. Ellis was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She received her Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University. Kathy died in a traffic accident in September of 2000. A true friend who will be missed by every life she touched.