Bruce Gordon.

Bruce Gordon Bruce Gordon may refer to:

Bruce Gordon (musician), Canadian bassist and member of I Mother Earth
Bruce L. Gordon, American scientist and Intelligent Design proponent
Bruce S. Gordon, American business executive and former NAACP president.

one of Verizon's highest-ranking African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. , retired, capping a 35-year career. Gordon, 58, oversaw the $67 billion company's consumer and small business sales and marketing units for Verizon Online and DSL DSL
in full Digital Subscriber Line

Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary . Gordon began his career in 1968 at Bell of Pennsylvania Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., formerly The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, who traded as Bell of Pennsylvania, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Pennsylvania. as a management trainee in consumer sales. At the time of the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger in 2000, he was named president of the Retail Markets Group. Previously listed in BLACK ENTERPRISE as "1998 Executive of the Year," Gordon was also included on Fortune's "50 Host Powerful Black Executives" list in 2002.

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