Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 21, 2003
KEN W. STOKES is presently Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Telesensory Corporation; Chairman, co-
Founder and largest shareholder of CES Communications Ltd.,
SignalGuard Inc., and Seek, Knots & Associates Ltd.; and Chairman
of GeoHoldings Ltd. Telesensory Corporation, founded in 1970, is
the leading worldwide developer, manufacturer, and marketer of
innovative electronic and computer-based products to assist
people with low vision. The company's corporate headquarters in
Sunnyvale, California, includes product development, sales,
marketing, product management, corporate finance and human
resource departments. Telesensory Corporation has wholly owned
subsidiaries in London and Paris, and distributors in Europe,
Australasia and South America. Prior to this, he was co-Founder
and CEO of Cardinal Network Group of companies, of which he was
the architect, responsible for planning, establishing and
operating the world's first information utility. Before Cardinal,
Mr. Stokes was operating in the US and was President of AVI, a
software development company in New York City to which he was
previously consulting in his position as head of advanced
technology worldwide for Touche Ross, reporting to the Vice
Chairman. In seeking funding for AVI, he interacted with
Prudential Bache Securities, which bought AVI and made it a
separate division of its operations under his control as Senior
Vice President of Prudential. Mr. Stokes spent most of his time
with Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) in the United States,
with the initial years being located in England. He started there
in a sales role and progressed through various marketing and
management positions to Corporate Director and member of the 10-
person Product Committee at world headquarters in Detroit. During
this time he personally acquired a software company on behalf of
Burroughs, so concluding what is arguably that corporation's best
ever acquisition. The resultant software product remains to this
day one of the four cornerstones of the multibillion dollar
corporation and the acquisition has paid for itself tens of
millions of times over. Profile
Telesensory and an overview of the company today?
Mr. Stokes: Telesensory, which was founded in 1970, is the number
one provider in the
