The Cartt.ca INTERVIEW: John Risley, Clearwater Fine Foods (and Columbus Communications)

WHEN PERSONA COMMUNICATIONS was first sold back in 2003-04, I remember attending one of the then-public company’s annual general meetings of shareholders. I don’t recall, but it may have been the final one before its sale. What I do remember are many angry investors wondering just what the heck this Canadian cable company was doing wasting resources in the Caribbean. The company had purchased Cable Bahamas in 2002 and some investors thought they were being taken for a ride while the company’s senior executives looked for some nice white sand upon which to land and retire. The company’s biggest shareholder...