Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Larry O''Brien is the current mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a current director of Calian Technologies Ltd. and its former CEO and chairman. Born Lawrence Robert O''Brien, O''Brien attended Elmdale Public School, Fisher Park High School, and graduated from Merivale High School in 1968. He studied at Algonquin College School of Technology and graduated with a diploma in Technology in 1972. After graduating from Algonquin College, O''Brien decided to work in the high technology sector that was taking off, and there met Terry Matthews and Michael Cowpland. He then joined Microsystems International Ltd. In 1975 he worked for the Communications Research Centre and Motorola Communications. O''Brien finally decided to launch his first company, called Insta-Call Ltd., which went bankrupt in 1979. From then to 1982, he was the general manager of reliability-testing firm Reltek Inc. in Kanata, subsequently leaving to open Calian Technologies Ltd.