Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 12, 2000
TONY FARMER is the Chief Executive of JWE Telecom Plc. He joined JWE as
a Non-Executive Finance Director in November 1995. He was appointed
Executive Finance Director in April 1997, in January 1988 he was
appointed Joint Managing Director, and in January 1999 he was appointed
Chief Executive. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Spicer and
Pelger (subsequently Deloitte & Touche) and became a partner in that
firm in 1995. He left Touche Ross (as it was then known) in 1991 to
undertake a number of Non-Executive and corporate advisory roles. Profile
TWST: Can you begin with a brief overview of the company, a little bitof history and then bring us up to date as to what you see as the
business and your company today?
Mr. Farmer: JWE was