Telcordia has appointed Daniel J. Carroll President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Carroll will also serve as a member of the Telcordia Board of Directors. Former ceo Matt Desch will serve the company as Non-Executive Chairman.
Carroll can probably be safely viewed as the choice of the new equity investors in Telcordia, although Desch will stay on as non-exec chairman for at least as long as Carroll’s transition to ceo is complete.
Most recently, Carroll was Chief Operating Officer of the Business Communications Services Division at Lucent Technologies, where he was responsible for a $7 billion global business that provided telecommunications systems to large and small business enterprises. Carroll, a professional engineer who played an instrumental role in the development of the first VOIP switch for the Lucent division that later became Avaya, spent 35 years with the AT&T, Western Electric and the Lucent family of companies.
Dan Stanzione, a Telcordia Director and former colleague of Mr. Carroll at Lucent Technologies, commented, “We are at what is both a very exciting and challenging time in the history of communications. Dan Carroll is a great fit to help lead Telcordia and its customers to success.”
