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Life after BCE will feature a stint in academia for one former executive at the telecom company.
The Richard Ivey School of Business landed Ron Close as its executive entrepreneur-in-residence on Wednesday. The University of Western Ontario's business program landed the recently-departed president of Bell Canada new ventures division. Mr. Close was responsible for the phone company's new media and technology initiatives. He also co-founded and led Netcom Canada, one of Canada's earliest and most successful Internet companies.
This is the latest in a series of voluntary departures from BCE ahead of the proposed buyout of Canada's largest phone company. In June, Scott Thomson joined Talisman Energy as the oil company's chief financial officer after a five-year stint as executive vice president, corporate development at the phone company.
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Gloria Foster from Brampton, Canada writes: It wasn't a case of "voluntary departures" from Bell. Yes, perhaps some upper-management voluntarily left Bell to pursue other high-profile positions. However, the majority of the 2,500 Management positions that Bell terminated were not voluntary. The majority of these people were selected through an HR process, invited to a meeting with their manager's superior, given their "exit package" and left the building that day. Not many of the 2,500 had a choice, they were terminated by Bell. These 2,500 people do understand that Bell needed to get 'lean and mean' as they go into privatization, however, their selections could have been handled differently; there are a number of people at Bell who WANTED to go, who put their name forward to management, however, they were not selected and someone else lost their job instead.
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