Lucent Technologies Inc.

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Lucent Technologies Inc. was an American telecommunications company that emerged from the breakup of AT&T in 1996. It was formed from AT&T Technologies, which itself was a restructuring of Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of the former Bell System. Patricia Russo served as CEO of Lucent (later Alcatel-Lucent) from 2002 to 2008, guiding the company through a period of significant financial challenges and a subsequent merger. The company was a major player in the telecommunications equipment market, producing a wide range of products for telephone networks.123

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Patricia Russo
…moved to the telecommunications firm Lucent Technologies in time for its $3 billion initial public offering in 1996, serving as executive vice president for corporate operations (1997–99) and vice president and CEO of Lucent’s core business, the service provider networks group (1999–2000). Russo left in 2000 and became president and…
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