David Wetherell.(Company Operations)(Interview)

Internet holding-company veteran CMGI hopes to consolidate and exploit new opportunities under new chairman and CEO David Wetherell. The company underwent a massive restructuring in fall 2000 that created five new operating divisions in addition to it venture-capital group and eventually produced 17 majority-owned operating companies; CMGI has since pared this to 13 and will reduce the number even further through both internal mergers and outright sell-offs. Wetherell describes his approach as 'scattergather,' preferring to acquire many companies at once and bring the pieces together in sea