George Cope Jumps Ship
Although not quite in the same league as Bobby Orr moving from the
Boston Bruins to the Chicago Blackhawks, there is a major “wow” factor
to Telus Mobility CEO George Cope
being hired as president and COO with Bell
Canada. Cope is extremely well-respected and he's been head of
Telus/ClearNet for 18 years so perhaps it was time for a change. Among
his many new tasks, maybe Cope can
fix Bell Mobility (Update: Cope has no duties involving Bell Mobility), which
has been struggling and, in the process, gone through several
CEOs -
Michael Neumann, Alek Krstajic and, most recently, Robert Odendaal.
Wonder if Telus CEO Darren Entwistle saw this coming? More important,
Telus has a big job replacing Cope with some who is respected by the
folks on Bay St.
Ash Chopra,
who worked at Bell and Telus, provides an in-depth look at what BCE's
poaching of Cope means for Telus, Bell and the telecom landscape.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:06 am
So let me get this right. Bell Mobility is an abject failure right now. This guy looks like he is doing a pretty good job with Telus Mobility. Bell brings him on board and puts him in charge of virtually everything but Mobility. Hmmm.
I assume he must have a non compete. If so will he still be with Bell when it runs out.
August 19th, 2006 at 1:27 am
as good as cope is — as bad as the new hire picked up on aug 3 will be