Prabhu Joins Morgenthaler
Prabhu was Alcatel's COO from October 1999 to August 2001. He began working for Alcatel back in 1991 when it bought Rockwell International’s network transmission division. Prior to that he worked at AT&T Corporation’s Bell Laboratories as a senior member of the technical staff.
He currently sits on the boards of Alcatel, Cenix Inc., and Glow Networks. He also served on the SmartPipes Inc. board earlier this year.
Prabhu is a bit of a local legend here in the Texas Telecom Corridor. He was equally feared and respected during his tenure at Alcatel. He held senior management positions during Alcatel's two largest multibillion-dollar acquisitions -- its 1998 purchase of DSC Communications and its purchase of Newbridge Networks in early 2000.
He was once accused in court documents filed by Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) of vowing to spend $50 million to put a stop to Monterey Networks, the wavelength router company, then led by former Alcatel executive Joe Bass, that Cisco bought in 1999.
Of course, Prabhu didn't have to lift a finger to stop Monterey. Cisco shut down the project all by itself earlier this year.
Prabhu will initially be working closely with Yotta Networks Inc. and Westwave Communications, according to a Morgenthaler spokesman.
— Phil Harvey, Senior Editor, Light Reading
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Whosoever appointed him to the COO position should be fired from Alcatel. He is a person with very poor skill sets.
His decition to acquire Assured Access was a total failure.
I do not undersyand as to why Alcatel was sdleeping when the companies that he bought were not bringing revenues. May be the entire Alcatel Board should resign.
As far as Yotta Networks it has no products and because of the Association of Yotta with Prabhu, no company would ever buy its products or acquire the company. How long Prabhu can fool people.
Morgenthaler, the VC company, whwere Prabhuu is working will go down the drain very quickly.
It is very difficult to understand what is going with the Telecom Equipment companies -- one mistake after the other.
It is hard to understand what is driving the engine of incompetency at Alcatel.