Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 10, 2001

E.paul Cooke – Canterbury Consulting Group Inc (citi)

E. PAUL COOKE serves as President of Usertech/Canterbury, Inc., being named to this position in May 1999. He has over 20 years' experience in information technology and consulting, both at IBM and with start-up organizations. Before joining Usertech, he was President of UMS Group, an information technology and management consulting firm headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, serving large global organizations in the US, UK, Europe, and Australia. Prior, Mr. Cooke was President of Real Decisions Corporation of Darien, Connecticut, a software development and information technology firm doing business with Fortune 1000-sized companies in the US, UK, and Europe. The company was later acquired by the Gartner Group, Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Cooke began his career with the IBM Corporation in software development, rising to the position of Regional Vice President in IBM's marketing division. He has a BS degree in Mathematics from Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, and an MS in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. He is President of the Board of Education for the Diocese of Paterson in Wayne, NJ. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of the history and evolution of

Usertech and Canterbury?

Mr. Cooke: Canterbury has been in the training and education business

since 1981. The company