John Roth

John Andrew Roth, a Canadian, was the chief executive officer and chairman of Nortel Networks between 1997-2001, He was called "the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history" by Time magazine and named Canada’s CEO of the Year by a Bay Street panel in the fall of 2000. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in 1942.

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• We desperately need to create a culture of winners
  • "John Roth"

• We are going to build a better Internet.
  • Top Tech Execs: John Roth December 13, 2000

• Policies and business strategies that worked well in the industrial era are a recipe for stagnation and decline in the new economy
  • John Roth December 25, 2000

Quotes about John Roth

• The most successful businessman in modern Canadian history
  • Time magazine "Archives Nortel, 'a Canadian success story'" (2000)

• But John Roth must be concerned that there is merit. It is his own personal  assets that are at stake
  • Diane Urquhart, independent financial analyst, in Former Nortel exec seeks $1B protection from lawsuits posted December 17, 2009