Mary Meeker is a managing director and serves as leader of Morgan Stanley's global technology research team. Meeker co-covers U.S.-based internet and consumer software companies including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.com.

Meeker was an early and consistent believer in opportunities related to the development of the Internet. She has authored and coauthored numerous books and reports about the Internet including: The Internet Report, 1995; The Internet Advertising Report, 1996; The Internet Retailing Report, 1997; The Online Classified Advertising Report: It's About Search / Find / Obtain (SFO), 2002; The China Internet Report, 2004 and 2005; and The Technology IPO Yearbook. All in, hundreds of thousands of copies of these reports are in circulation.

Meeker holds a B.A. from DePauw University and an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University. She joined Morgan Stanley in 1991.

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