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New CEO picked for Chicago-based telecom equipment maker.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By John Schmeltzer, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 17--Chicago-based telecommunications equipment maker Stratos International, Inc. on Thursday named a new chief executive, filling a vacancy created last month by the resignation of former CEO James McGinley.

The company, which has never recovered from the technology meltdown in 2001, announced that Phillip (Andy) Harris, a member of its board of directors since 2003, will become president and CEO. Harris is a retired executive vice president of Sprint North Supply, a communications equipment supplier.

Stratos, which makes optical subsystems for high-speed networking data storage and telecommunications companies and the military, was spun off from Methode...

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