RICHARD R. ROSCITT
Richard R. "Rick" Roscitt joined MCI as their
President and COO in August, 2003, with the goal of stabilizing their
operations and getting the company out of bankruptcy. With the bankruptcy emergence complete and
the business producing stable positive cash flow, in April 2004 he decided to
move on to seek a new challenge.
Prior to joining MCI, Roscitt served as Chairman and CEO of ADC Broadband from February 2001 until he joined MCI. At ADC Roscitt spearheaded its transformation and orchestrated the reconstruction of ADC's global sales team and led its successful recovery during the worst period in the telecommunications equipment business. Throughout the industry downturn, ADC remained an S&P 500 firm.
Prior to joining ADC, Roscitt was President of AT&T Business Services and President and CEO, AT&T Solutions. As a founding partner and executive team member, Rick launched the AT&T Solutions business in 1995 and led its four practices: Consulting, Network Integration, Outsourcing and Multimedia Call Center Solutions.
Under Rick's guidance, AT&T Solutions grew at nearly double the industry growth rate and became one of the top 10 outsourcing companies in the world. In 1996, AT&T Solutions received InfoServer's Networking Outsourcer of the Year award and was rated the number one network outsourcing company by G2 Research Inc. in 1996 and 1997. The story of Roscitt's development of AT&T Solutions is featured in Leading at the Speed of Change: Using New Economy Rules to Invigorate Old Economy Companies, by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson. He was generally considered to be the successor to Mike Armstrong and become Chief Executive Officer of AT&T prior to his departure to become CEO of ADC.
Having joined AT&T directly out of college in 1972,
Rick's career was marked with one promotion after another generally on a yearly
basis or more frequent basis. He
pioneered the concept of end-to-end networking management and was responsible
for launching AT&T's premiere
In 1988, he served as Network Vice President for the ten-state Central Region, where he supervised the engineering, installation and operation of AT&T's long distance network. From 1989 to 1990, as Director of Business Special Services for the Network Services Division, Mr. Roscitt managed the analog-to-digital conversion of AT&T's entire Special Services Network.
Mr. Roscitt served both as a member of AT&T's Operations Group (OG), the company's governing executive panel, and also President of AT&T Business Services, where he led all of the company's units focused on the business marketplace, including AT&T Solutions, Business Services Sales, Business Services Operations, AT&T Data and Internet Services and AT&T Global Network Services. He was responsible for AT&T's entire local to global business communication network requirements, including all voice, data, Internet Protocol, outsourcing and managed network services.
Mr. Roscitt has published articles on marketing and
telecommunications for Marketing News,
Well recognized as an Industry leader, Rick has keynoted at world-class forums including COMDEX, Cisco CIO Summit, BusinessWeek CEO Conference, Telecom Business World, and IBM's Tlvoll World conference. He is regularly featured in leading business and industry trade print and electronic media.
Rick received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Cum Laude) from Stevens Institute of Technology and earned an MBA in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
He now serves on the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology.
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