Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 30, 1999

Peter Gelardi – World Telecom Plc (wdt.l)

PETER GELARDI is Managing Director of World Telecom. Mr. Gelardi graduated from the RAF College, Cranwell and spent five years as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. After four years in the insurance industry, he became Managing Director of Roam Waddington Ltd. Mr. Gelardi completed an MBA at Aston University in 1975 and then joined the Chloride Group plc as Acquisitions Manager, becoming Managing Director of their companies in East Africa. After leaving Chloride he established Amalgamated Alloys Ltd in Kenya, which he successfully sold in 1988. In 1990 he launched Jazz FM, the first new commercial radio station in London for 17 years. He is one of the founders of World Telecom. Profile
TWST: First, give us a quick thumbnail historical sketch on World

Telecom. Enough information to put us into context for what you see as

your company and your business today.

Mr. Gelardi: We