CopperCom taps former Alcatel exec for CEO spot

The executive shuffling continues at CopperCom as this week it revealed that former Alcatel executive Michael Myers will take over as president and CEO. Former president and CEO Dennis Chateauneuf will continue to serve on the board of directors of the company.

The optimistic Myers today spoke of great opportunities ahead for the company, despite the current conditions. “The company will be able to take advantage of the discontinuity,” Myers said. “We have a shipping product and a customer base, and will continue to stay focused and perform,” he said.

Even though CopperCom has survived and its initial voice-over-broadband competitors such as Jetstream and Tollbridge Communications have perished the next-generation switching market it’s targeting isn’t exactly vacant. Established vendors like Lucent, Nortel and Siemens already have their hand in it, as do smaller players like Convergent, Sonus, Santera, Taqua and Telica.

But Myers believes CopperCom’s fine-tuned focus will enable the company to succeed as the market buoys back up.

Myers, who left Alcatel in January of this year, was originally part of the DSC team and served as president of Alcatel’s Broadband Networking Division.