This man was one of my heros and I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet and have dinner with him when we found ourselves at a conference together in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 1998.
As an Internet infrastructure builder and entrepreneur I felt like I was living and working in this great man's shadow. If your packets have ever gone over the UUNET network (they basically all do, worldwide) then this man touched has your life.
Detailed news stories can be found at: http://news.google.com/news?q=%22john+sidgmore%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=nn
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/12/11/rtr1178334.html
NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - MCI said John Sidgmore, who led the long-distance telephone company when it filed for bankruptcy in the wake of an $11 billion accounting scandal conducted under former managers, died on Thursday from cancer.
Sidgmore, 52, took the helm of MCI, whose legal name is still WorldCom Inc., after its financial problems began to unfold in the spring of 2002. He succeeded Bernard Ebbers, who left amid a plunging stock price, heavy debt and investigations into $408 million in personal loans he got from the company.
After the accounting problems emerged and the company fired its former chief financial officer Scott Sullivan, Sidgmore filed the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July, 2002 and oversaw the first stages of its restructuring before handing the reins to Michael Capellas later that year.
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