Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 15, 2005

A.dale Mayo – Access Integrated Technologies Inc (aix)

A. DALE MAYO is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc., and has been since inception in April 2000. He was most recently the President and Chief Executive of Cablevision Cinemas, LLC, which Mr. Mayo founded in 1994 as the Clearview Cinema Group, Inc., and sold to Cablevision in 1998, for $160 million. Under Mr. Mayo's leadership, Cablevision Cinemas was a leader in bringing digital film to its movie theaters and in its exploration of content delivery via cable and satellite technology. Beginning with eight screens in 1994, Mr. Mayo left Cablevision in January 2000 with almost 300 screens and 65 locations, including the world-famous Ziegfeld theatre in New York City, making Cablevision the second largest circuit in metro New York. Mr. Mayo was also the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of Clearview Leasing Corporation, a lessor of computer peripherals and telecom equipment founded in 1976 that completed more than $300 million in leasing transactions. Mr. Mayo began his career with IBM as a computer salesman in 1965 and has co-founded more than a dozen computer services companies. During the 1970s, Mr. Mayo served in various senior corporate finance positions on Wall Street prior to founding Clearview Leasing. Profile
TWST: We'd like to begin with a brief historical sketch of Access

Integrated Technologies, Inc., and a picture of what you are doing at

the present time.

Mr. Mayo: We started the company in