Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 30, 1999
PAUL CHISHOLM has been the President of COLT Telecom Group plc (COLT)
since 1995 and Chief Executive Officer of COLT since 1996. He was
appointed to the Board of Directors of COLT on September 22, 1996. He
served as the first Managing Director of COLT Telecommunications, COLT's
U.K. operating company, from its inception in 1992. From 1985 until 1988
he was the first Vice President-Telecommunications of Shawmut Bank in
Boston. From 1974 until 1985, he was employed in various management
positions at New England Telephone & Telegraph and AT&T Corp. He served
as the first Chairman of the Other Licensed Operators Group, a
regulatory reform group in the United Kingdom from 1993 to 1995. Profile
Mr. Chisholm: COLT was started in 1993, serving our first customer in
London. It was established as one of the first new local carriers
