Mr. Teweles served as an executive with the L. Teweles Seed Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for 26 years. He was President for 12 of those years until July, 1972, when the company was sold. Teweles Seed was a medium-sized, vertically integrated, research-oriented firm. In 1973, Mr. Teweles founded L. William Teweles & Co., which grew to become the leading global crop genetics investment banking and consulting group with a list of 131 transactions to its credit.

In 1974 and 1975, Mr. Teweles was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has traveled extensively on consulting assignments in Eastern and Western Europe, the Orient, and Latin America.

During his career, L. William Teweles has served as a Director of numerous corporations and industry associations in the U.S. and offshore. As an author, Mr. Teweles has contributed to a number of professional journals and trade publications. He frequently addresses trade, industry and financial groups. L. William Teweles attended the College of Agricultural at the University of Wisconsin.

In lieu of a structured interview, we asked Mr. Teweles to reminisce freely about his more than 55 years in the seed industry and to describe the many changes he witnessed.