John Roth

John Andrew Roth, is a Canadian retired business executive. He was the chief executive officer and chairman of Nortel Networks between 1997 and 2001. While he was called "the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history" by Time magazine and named Canada's CEO of the Year by a Bay Street panel in the fall of 2000, by the ignominious end of his career it became clear that his mismanagement destroyed the company.

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• We desperately need to create a culture of winners
  • "John Roth"

• We are going to build a better Internet.
  • Top Tech Execs: John Roth December 13, 2000

• Policies and business strategies that worked well in the industrial era are a recipe for stagnation and decline in the new economy
  • John Roth December 25, 2000

• The government has to pay attention to the fact that a lot of high income jobs are moving to the United States
  • Sinking in Scandal: The Death of Nortel (Nov 4, 2023) video analysis by nebula.tv

Quotes about John Roth

• The most successful businessman in modern Canadian history
  • Time magazine "Archives Nortel, 'a Canadian success story'" (2000)

• But John Roth must be concerned that there is merit. It is his own personal  assets that are at stake
  • Diane Urquhart, independent financial analyst, in Former Nortel exec seeks $1B protection from lawsuits posted December 17, 2009

Video clips

• The Company that Broke Canada a Youtube documentary (1.5 hours 3,075,151 views published Nov 4, 2023)