Top Lucent Technologies Employees

Bernardus Johannes Maria "Ben" Verwaayen, born February 11, 1952, is a Dutch businessman and a general partner at Keen Venture Partners. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel-Lucent from 2008 to 2013.

Bob Cohn is a former partner at Sequoia Capital. He was CEO of Octel Communications, a voicemail systems company he co-founded in 1982, which Lucent Technologies acquired in 1997. Cohn served as an EVP of Lucent Technologies until 1999. Earlier, he held roles at Banque Rothschild in France and McKinsey Company in the US and Canada. Bob has directed several companies, including Electronic Arts and Trimble Navigation. He sat on the Board of Governors of NASDAQ, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business advisory board, and served on a CEO advisory board.

Charles Meyo brings telecommunications channel knowledge and over 18 years of sales leadership to Narus. Chuck has a track record leading sales organizations and growing a company’s global reach. Chuck drives Narus’ products through worldwide channels. Before Narus, Chuck was the vice president of the IBM Global Accounts and Alliances organization at Avaya. He managed Avaya’s global relationship with IBM, the company’s largest partner, which brought in over $182 million in sales yearly.

Dan Leary brings over 15 years of networking experience as a product management and marketing executive to ConSentry. Dan directs the worldwide strategy, direction, and marketing for ConSentry’s products. Before ConSentry Networks, Dan was the vice president of product management at both Juniper Networks and Peribit Networks. At Peribit, he led a product strategy that created and defined the “WAN optimization” category. Dan also held executive roles at netVmg, Longitude Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Bay Networks.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. Ritchie created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B programming language with colleague Ken Thompson. The ACM awarded Ritchie and Thompson the Turing Award in 1983, the IEEE awarded the Hamming Medal in 1990, and President Bill Clinton gave the National Medal of Technology in 1999. Ritchie headed the Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department until he retired in 2007. Ritchie wrote the "R" in K&R C and is known by his username dmr.

Edison Peres serves as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels Go-to-Market at Cisco Systems. He develops recognized go-to-market strategies, policies, programs, and training. These efforts help Cisco partners transform and grow their businesses, adopt new technologies, and increase profitability.

Frank DAmelio serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Pfizer.

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Greg Dougherty recently served as the chief operating officer (COO) of JDS Uniphase. He previously managed the company's amplification and transmission business group. Greg joined JDS Uniphase following its merger with SDL in February 2001. He became COO of SDL Inc. in 1998, holding that role alongside president of SDL Optics. Before that, he held roles as vice president of the components group and vice president of communications and information products after joining the company as vice president of corporate marketing and sales and vice president of the communica.

Jason Morse manages product management and planning at AdMob. Before AdMob, Jason worked five years at Yahoo!. There, he controlled all mobile browsing initiatives. He managed the product roadmap, monetization strategy, and distribution deals with device makers and carriers globally. Under his direction, Yahoo Mobile launched top mobile web services. It grew to become the number one mobile portal in the US. Jason previously held product management roles at eVoice (acquired by AOL Time Warner), Lucent Technologies, and was at Stanford University from 1998 to 2002. Now, he is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Duke.

Jim Goetz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, invests in the component, systems, and software sectors. Jim is currently a director with Clearwell Systems, Palo Alto Networks, and PeakStream. Before joining Sequoia in 2004, Jim acted as a general partner at Accel Partners. There, he led investments in companies like Entrisphere, Peribit (acquired by Juniper), RGB, Rhapsody (acquired by Brocade), BroadJump (acquired by MOTV), Timetra (Acquired by Alcatel), and Topspin (acquired by Cisco). Before Accel, Jim founded VitalSigns, where he became vice president

Jonathan C. Mattingly was at Stanford University from 1998 to 2002. He is now an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Duke.

Patricia F. Russo, born June 12, 1952, in Trenton, New Jersey, is an American businessperson. Russo is best known for serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Lucent Technologies and its successor, Alcatel-Lucent, a major communications equipment maker. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for General Motors, Merck & Co., and Arconic, Inc. She chairs the nonprofit Partnership at Drugfree.org. Before Hewlett-Packard split in 2015, Russo served as Lead Independent Director. She now serves as Chairwoman of

Phil, CTO and co-founder of Entrisphere, designs the system architecture and engineering for company products. He brings over 10 years of applied industrial experience in computing and communication. His innovative, pragmatic system designs created several communications software, access, and switching systems. Before Entrisphere, Phil led the architecture and engineering for a converged (voice and data) network element at Lucent Technologies' Internetworking Systems unit.

Ronald G. Garriques serves as president of Dells global consumer group. He manages Dells' consumer product portfolio, which includes desktops, laptops, software, and peripherals. Garriques also handles product design and sales.

Shan has over 12 years in product management and R&D for Operating Systems, Compilers, and Distributed Computing. Before co-founding RingCube, Shan held a senior product management and engineering role at Borland, where he designed and developed highly scalable distributed computing architectures. Shan managed product and engineering at Healtheon, which WebMD later acquired. Earlier, Shan worked as an R&D engineer at Lucent Technologies, building real-time operating systems for Telecom switches. Shan also serves as an adjunct.

Sesh is the resident search technology expert. He has over 10 years in research and industry. He holds three top credentials: Chief Technology Officer for Yahoo’s India development center in Bangalore. He founded Strand Genomics, a biotechnology company. He is also a research jock at Bell Labs. Sesh graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin.

Tony Miranz co-founded VUDU in June 2004. Tony drives the VUDU vision, building an all-star team of Silicon Valley specialists. He led the team to implement the core technology, create a strong intellectual property portfolio, and secure major content licensing deals with Hollywood studios and top distributors. Before VUDU, Tony was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Tahoe Networks. Tony previously served as General Manager of the Americas’ Sales and Field Operation.

William R. Spivey acted as Chief Executive Officer and President of Luminent Inc., a fiber-optic component provider for the communications industry from July 2000 to September 2001. Spivey is a senior executive with 30 years of management experience in high-volume, high-technology businesses.

Yossi Barak offers over 23 years of executive software development and management experience in Fraud Sciences. He recently served as Site Manager at IBM Israel Software Labs. Before IBM, Yossi managed iPhrase Israel Ltd, a leader in adaptive search technology. Previously, Yossi held senior management positions at Banter Israel Ltd, Ubique Ltd, and Lucent Technologies. Yossi earned an MBA from The Hebrew University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.