Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 10, 2000

Lawrence Guinness – Guinness Telli*phone Corporation (teli.ob)

Lawrence Guinness is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Guinness Telli*Phone Corporation. Mr. Guinness has served in his present capacities since Telli's inception, bringing with him extensive experience in the publishing industry. He formed Guinness Publishing Ltd. in Toronto, Canada, producing innovative educational textbooks, in 1967. An instant success with Canadian schools, sales were subsequently made to the United States and other countries. In 1969, Mr. Guinness founded Guinness Publishing Ltd. in New York to publish educational textbooks for the entire North American marketplace. Mr. Guinness sold his publishing companies to finance the development of Telli in 1979. Profile
TWST: Could you begin by giving us an overview of Guinness Telli*Phone,

Corporation?

Mr. Guinness: The Guinness Telli*Phone Corporation was spun out of the

publishing business. I used to