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Patricia Russo, CEO, Service Provider Networks group,
Lucent

P. RussoPatricia Russo is who network entrepreneurs conjure up when they're hoping to land a multimillion-dollar acquisition. Since 1996, Russo has been the kingpin in Lucent's shopping spree. As executive vice president of strategy, business development and corporate operations, she reportedly controlled 27 of Lucent's 29 acquisitions, valued at a cool $32 billion.

Despite Lucent's origins from Bell system creativity, the equipment maker owes its position in the datacom world to technology it bought. For that, Russo garnered herself the top executive slot for Lucent's Service Provider Networks group, formed in October when Lucent reorganized itself along market lines.

The service provider market remains Lucent's bread and butter. This division, which Russo now controls, consists of optical networking, switching and access systems, wireless networks, and communication software businesses. But it also has a chunk of Lucent's convergence schemes. In Russo's capable hands, her group will prod cable TV operators into the world of datacom - an area in which they are sorely in need of assistance.

If Russo's past is a prediction of her future, her savvy business sense spells success. Prior to her role as one of the industry's ultimate power shoppers, she ran Lucent's Business Communications Systems Unit. She molded that $6 billion unit into Lucent's second-largest global business. She's placed among the company's top five executive leaders, and some have dubbed her Lucent's "chief of staff."

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