Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 2, 2002

Cornelius Prior Jr. – Atlantic Tele-network Inc (ank)

CORNELIUS B. PRIOR JR. is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc., a company he co-founded in June 1987 when the company purchased from ITT the local telephone company in the US Virgin Islands. ATN became a public company in 1991 and is listed on the American Stock Exchange. Today ATN owns 80% of Guyana Telephone Company, 44% of Cellular One in Bermuda, 100% of Choice Communications (wireless TV and ISP) in the US Virgin Islands, and 100% of Atlantic Tele-Center in Guyana. Mr. Prior was a Fulbright Scholar and started his career as a Wall Street lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in 1963. From 1980 until June 1987, he was a Managing Director and stockholder of Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he directed the Telecommunications Finance Group. He is presently Chairman of the Caribbean Association of National Telephone Organizations, a Trustee of Caribbean/Latin American Action, a Trustee of Holy Cross College and a member of the Board of Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard Law School. Profile
TWST: Can you give us a quick overview of Atlantic Tele-Network

today ' the business, the operations and the organization?

Mr. Prior: Atlantic Tele-Network is a public holding company

listed