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Article: Telecom giant answers call - Cignal lands Rooney as chief exec.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- October 19, 1998
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Chris Rooney tried to avoid Andrew Perlman's pesky phone calls.
After all, why would Rooney, a former CEO of a global telecommunications giant, come out of retirement to join Perlman's fledgling start-up in Cambridge?
"I wouldn't return his messages," Rooney, 57, says. "But Andrew wasn't giving up."
Weeks later, Rooney finally gave in. The conversation made Rooney think twice about retirement.
Rooney learned that 23-year-old Perlman and his cohorts at Cignal Global Communications had patented technology that could be used in an international communications network to carry both voice and data - making phone, fax and Internet traffic ...