Jim Beach became executive vice president and CFO of The Cobalt Group in February 2005. He brought more than 20 years of financial and operations management experience to Cobalt, where he is responsible for the finance and accounting, information services, and human resources departments. Before joining Cobalt, Beach served as CFO at WRQ, Inc., one of the nation's largest privately held enterprise software companies; DataChannel, Inc., a developer of enterprise information portals; and Applied Microsystems Corp., a provider of embedded software tools. Beach started his career at Deloitte & Touche and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and political science from Linfield College. |