John W. Sidgmore

John W. Sidgmore

John W. Sidgmore became the Chief Executive Officer of UUNET Technologies in June 1994. UUNET was purchased by MFS, later taken over by WorldCom, which eventually took over MCI from British Telecom. 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 that $11 billion in accounting fraud, left over from Ebbers' management of the company, had been discovered.

John Sidgmore died suddenly in December 2003 from acute pancreatitis. He is survived by his wife Randi, and their son Michael.

References

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E4DC143CF931A25751C1A9659C8B63 New York Times obituary]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sidgmore — n. John Sidgmore, General Manager for the worldwide Internet provider UUNET; family name …   English contemporary dictionary

  • John Sidgmore — n. (1951 2003) former CEO of the worldwide Internet provider UUNET …   English contemporary dictionary

  • CompuServe — Type Subsidiary of AOL Industry Internet communications Founded 1969 Headquarters Col …   Wikipedia

  • Calendar of 2002 — ▪ 2003 January I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world s most destructive… …   Universalium

  • Deaths in 2003 — Contents 1 January 2003 2 February 2003 3 March 2003 4 A …   Wikipedia

  • UUNET — Technologies, Inc. Rechtsform Incorporated Gründung 1987 Auflösung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Boardwatch — began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine s run, it was renamed to ISPWatch… …   Wikipedia

  • Rick Adams (Internet pioneer) — Rick Adams was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world s largest Internet Service Provider (ISP).Rick Adams was responsible for the first widely available Serial Line IP (SLIP) implementation… …   Wikipedia

  • MCI Inc. — MCI, Inc. is an American telecommunications company that is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia. The corporation was the result of the merger of WorldCom (formerly known as LDDS followed by LDDS WorldCom) and MCI Communications, and used the name… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”