John W. Sidgmore, became the Chief Executive Officer of UUNET Technologies in June 1994, Sidgmore worked to revive WorldCom after disgraced CEO Bernard Ebbers, a Canadian businessman, that co-founded which telecommunications company?
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John W. Sidgmore John W. Sidgmore (April 9, 1951 – December 11, 2003) became the Chief Executive Officer of UUNET Technologies in June 1994. UUNET was purchased by MFS, later taken over by WorldCom, which eventually bought MCI. He later became WorldCom's Chief Operations Officer. Sidgmore worked to revive WorldCom after disgraced CEO Bernard Ebbers left. Sidgmore was instrumental in beginning to turn around the failed company, revealing to federal investigators an $11 billion accounting fraud, left over from Ebbers' management of the company.
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Bernard Ebbers Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941) is a Canadian businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.
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NewTel Communications NewTel Communications was a telephone and internet service provider in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Originally known as the Avalon Telephone Company, it served the Avalon Peninsula and later became the Newfoundland Telephone Company and served several additional regions: southwestern Newfoundland between Port-aux-Basques and Corner Brook; part of the Burin Peninsula; Windsor and Grand Falls; and most of Labrador. This was as a result of the acquisition of four smaller companies and their phone services from 1948 to 1962.
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Cameron Zubko Cameron Zubko (born 1975) is a Canadian businessman and Chief Operating Officer of Ice Wireless, a Canadian 3G/4G telecommunications company.
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William R. C. Blundell William Richard Charles Blundell, OC (born 13 April 1927) is a Canadian businessman.
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Broadcom Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity called Broadcom Limited. The division is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom Corporation was founded by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA in 1991. In 1995 the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: BRCM) and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.
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Sheelagh Whittaker Sheelagh Whittaker (born 9 April 1947) is a Canadian business executive and author. Whittaker was the first female CEO of a TSX listed company and during her career held senior positions at Electronic Data Systems, Royal Bank of Canada, CanWest Global Communications Corporation and Standard Life. She has regularly spoken on feminist issues.
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Wellfleet Communications Wellfleet Communications was an Internet router company founded in 1986 by Paul Severino, Bill Seifert, Steven Willis and David Rowe based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and later Billerica, Massachusetts. In an attempt to more effectively compete with Cisco Systems, its chief rival, it merged in October, 1994 with SynOptics Communications of Santa Clara, California to form Bay Networks in a deal worth US$ 2.7B. Bay Networks would in turn by acquired by Nortel in June, 1998 for US$ 9.1B.
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Sydney Development Corporation Sydney Development Corporation (“SDC”), was the first publicly traded software company in Canada. Founded by Tarrnie Williams, SDC developed an online real-time project management system for the IBM System z mainframe computer, then various different business applications for microcomputers such as the Apple II, and eventually became the first developer and publisher of computer games for microcomputers in Canada.
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Cable &amp; Wireless Worldwide Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC (informally Cable & Wireless) was a British multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. It was formed in 2010 by the split of Cable & Wireless plc into two companies, the other being Cable & Wireless Communications.
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Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company. It operates particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, telephone, and Internet connectivity with significant additional telecommunications and mass media assets. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario,
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James Richardson (Cisco) James Richardson is a Canadian businessman. He is the Chief Marketing Officer of Cisco Systems, where he has worked for 16 years.
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Philippe Dauman Philippe Pierre Dauman (born March 1, 1954) is the former President, CEO and Chairman of Viacom. He has served at this post since September 2006. Dauman is a longtime associate of the company's chairman Sumner Redstone. Dauman served from 1994 to 2000 as a member of Viacom's executive committee and as executive vice president in charge of strategic transactions, legal and government affairs, human resources and administration, supervising Paramount Pictures Entertainment, Showtime Networks and Simon & Schuster. Dauman was also a director at Redstone-owned CBS Corporation until September 2006.
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Darren Entwistle Darren Entwistle (born 1962) is a Canadian businessman, president and chief executive officer of TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company.
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Frank Griffiths Frank A. Griffiths (December 17, 1916 – April 7, 1994) was a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada media mogul through his company, Western International Communications Ltd. (WIC).
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TeleChoice TeleChoice is an Australian telecommunications company, founded in 1995.
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Jean Monty Jean Monty (born 1947), a Canadian executive, was the CEO of Nortel Networks from 1993 to 1997 and the chair and CEO of BCE from 1997 to 2002. He commanded both Bell and Nortel at their peak and succeeded by Michael Sabia and John Roth respectively.
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CGI Group CGI Group Inc. (Consultants to Government and Industries), more commonly known as CGI, is a Canadian global information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, and solutions company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1976 by Serge Godin and André Imbeau as an IT consulting firm, the company soon began branching into new markets and acquiring other companies. CGI went public in 1986 with a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. CGI is also a constituent of the S&P/TSX 60, and has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. After almost doubling in size with the 1998 acquisition of Bell Sygma, CGI acquired IMRGlobal in 2001 for $438 million, which added "global delivery options" for CGI. Other significant purchases include American Management Systems (AMS) for $858 million in 2004, which grew CGI's presence in the United States, Europe and Australia and led to the formation of the CGI Federal division.
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Charles Fleetford Sise Charles Fleetford Sise, Sr. (27 September 1834 – 9 April 1918) was a U.S.-Canadian businessman and one of the first presidents of Bell Canada. He was also part of its first board of directors, and that of the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company (Nortel), the telephone company's equipment manufacturer, from 1895 to 1918.
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JR Shaw JR Shaw {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born August 14, 1934) is a Canadian businessman. He founded then Edmonton-based Shaw Communications in 1966 and is the current executive chairman of the company. As of 2016, Shaw and other members of his family control 85 per cent of the Class A voting shares of Corus Entertainment and 78 per cent of the class A voting shares of Shaw Communications. Shaw also currently sits on the board of directors of Suncor Energy.
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Belgacom ICS BICS (previously known as Belgacom ICS or Belgacom International Carrier Services) operates in the telecommunication industry as a subsidiary of Proximus Group (parent group), and provides wholesale carrier services to wireline and wireless operators, and service providers globally. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with sales offices and Service Operation Centers worldwide including Dubai, Singapore, Bern, San Francisco and New York. BICS provides voice, connectivity, messaging, roaming and mobile financial services to over 1,000 fixed and wireless carriers and service providers, including more than 400 mobile operators. In 2012 BICS processed 28 billion international minutes and generated revenues for 1,65 Billion Euro.
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Internex Online Internex Online, usually known as io.org, was the first consumer dial-up ISP in Canada, formed by the merger of r-node and zooid BBS, two Bulletin board system and Usenet/uucp systems, in early 1993. At its peak, it had about 10,000 customers, and was credited for leading in low cost access.