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John A. MacDonald is the new president/COO of AT&T Canada Corp. He has served as president/CEO of NBTel, president/COO of Bell Canada and president/CEO of Leitch Technology Corp. The Cape Breton native succeeds Harry Truderung. Telus Québec has named Marc Rancourt VP public and para-public markets. He was previously VP and director general for the east region with Group Telecom. Kelly McDougald has been appointed senior VP business sales for Bell Ontario. She joins Bell from Nortel Networks Corp., where she most recently was VP major accounts. Bell Nexxia has named Tony Ciciretto as senior VP sales. He has been with Bell since 1988, most recently as VP Ontario enterprise market. The chief technology officer of BCE Emergis is leaving his position. Ido Gileadi will be replaced in the interim by René Poirier, who was CTO until he was promoted to president last spring (NL, May 21/02). Chris Weisdorf has resigned as president of the Residential Broadband Users’ Association, effective immediately. It is not known who will succeed him or even if the group, which lobbies on behalf of Internet customers (NL, Apr. 9/01), will continue to operate. Marc Santerre is the new CFO at International Datacasting Corp. Before joining the Ottawa firm, he held the same position at Vistar Telecommunications and GPC Government Policy Consultants. Vancouver’s Contec Innovations Inc. has named John Winterburn to its advisory committee. Until his recent retirement, Winterburn was group chief designer at Vodafone UK’s product development group and has experience at Racal Telecommunications. Changes abound at Deutsche Telekom since the assension of Kai-Uwe Ricke to CEO (NL, Nov. 19/02). T-Online International chief Thomas Holtrop and T-Mobile International manager René Obermann have been named management board members. Karl-Gerhard Eick is the new deputy chair of the board of management and replaces Gerd Tenzer in handling procurement, M&A, legal affairs and affiliates management.

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News | December 2, 2002

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