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Richard McGinn, chairman and CEO,
Lucent

R. McGinn"I spy an enterprise market" could well have been Rick McGinn's mantra for 1999. Under his leadership, Lucent kept the pressure on Cisco with a newly defined enterprise division, acquisitions, its continued presence in the server provider market and generally deep pockets. In fact, Lucent is more than four times the size of Cisco, with 140,000 employees and an annual revenue of $3.8 billion.

Facing heavy criticism for being all talk and no action in the enterprise market, McGinn finally restructured the company in October to carve out an enterprise unit, Lucent Enterprise Networks. The company is placing its popular PBX systems - the one product group that has a stronghold in the enterprise - under this umbrella. Seemingly, this will assist the company in fulfilling McGinn's pursuit of convergence, which he's been touting to corporate customers for years.

His new enterprise services unit should help. Among acquisitions, in November it added enterprise systems integrator International Network Services to its family. Now maybe we'll see this network equipment giant take on its smaller, yet more dominant, competitor as Cisco reaches up into the fat and juicy service provider market and McGinn competes strategically for the enterprise.

McGinn's no stranger to the inner workings of a large enterprise, either. In addition to steering Lucent, he is on the boards of American Express and Oracle. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness, a bipartisan Washington advisory group. All in all, his power radiates far and wide.

Related links

Richard McGinn's biography
From Lucent's Web site.

Lucent chief pledges networking leadership
Network World, 11/12/99

Lucent reorg focuses on enterprise nets
Network World, 11/01/99

Lucent to buy INS for $3.7 billion
Network World, 08/10/99

Is Lucent wise to the enterprise?
Network World, 07/05/99

Lucent CEO: Internet just a starting point
Network World, 04/15/99

Lucent hardball
Network World, 03/22/99


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