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PRABHU TACKLES TELLABS' PUZZLE; Telecom vet engineering change at gear maker.(News)(Krish A. Prabhu)
Crain's Chicago Business, December, 2005 by Singh, Shruti Date
Byline: SHRUTI DATE SINGH Tellabs Inc. CEO Krish A. Prabhu is hooked on Sudoku, a Japanese puzzle that taps his deductive reasoning skills. The Indian-born engineer takes a similar analytical approach when asked if the telecom gear maker he's been asked to fix will be taken over. "If the company gets repositioned and becomes stronger and as a result of that it gets acquired, I've done a good job.
But that is not why I came here,'' Mr. Prabhu says in an interview in his sparsely decorated Naperville office. Almost two years into the job, the 51-year-old industry veteran is reshaping Tellabs by expanding its product line, a strategy that's put the company in competition with giants like Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. It's also made Tellabs a...
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