Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> October 6, 2003
EDWIN J. McGUINN was named President and Chief Executive Officer of
eLOT, Inc. in May 2000. Prior to joining eLOT, Mr. McGuinn was President
and CEO of Automated Trading Systems, Inc. and its subsidiary,
LIMITrader Securities, Inc., an Internet based securities firm. Under
Mr. McGuinn's leadership, LIMITrader Securities launched one of the
first proprietary web-based systems for trading corporate bonds, medium
term notes and high-yield bonds. Previously, Mr. McGuinn was Executive
Vice President and head of operations at InterVest Securities, Inc., an
electronic bond-trading network where he was responsible for all sales,
marketing and trading operations. Mr. McGuinn also held executive
management positions at Lehman Brothers, Mabon Securities and Rodman &
Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. He spent eleven years at Lehman Brothers as
a Managing Director where he was a member of the firm's fixed income
operating committee responsible for international trading, sales and
research in New York, London and Tokyo. Mr. McGuinn is a CPA and holds a
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics from Colgate University,
and a Master's degree in Accounting from NYU. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a history and overview of eLOT?Mr. McGuinn: eLot originally was a public company called Executone,
which was a reasonably well known middle market, telephony