John W. Sidgmore (April 9, 1951 – December 11, 2003) was a corporate executive. He became the Chief Executive Officer of

UUNET UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern Virginia and was one of the first commercial Internet service providers. Today, UUNET is an internal brand ...

Technologies in June 1994. UUNET was purchased by

MFS MFS may refer to: Education *Miletich Fighting Systems, a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Pat Miletich *Moorestown Friends School, a private Quaker school located in Moorestown, New Jersey *Moscow Finnish School, a Finnish private sc ...

, later taken over by

WorldCom MCI, Inc. (subsequently Worldcom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. Worldcom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunic ...

, which eventually bought MCI. He later became WorldCom's Chief Operations Officer. Sidgmore worked to revive WorldCom after disgraced CEO

Bernard Ebbers Bernard John Ebbers (August 27, 1941 – February 2, 2020) was a Canadian businessman, the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom and a convicted fraudster. Under his management, WorldCom grew rapidly but collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting ...

left. Sidgmore was instrumental in beginning to turn around the failed company, revealing to federal investigators an $11 billion accounting fraud, left over from Ebbers' management of the company. John Sidgmore died suddenly on December 11, 2003 at the age of 52 from

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ...

. He is survived by his wife Randi, and their son, Michael.

Early life

A native of

Spring Valley, New York Spring Valley is a village in the towns of Ramapo and Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Chestnut Ridge, east of Airmont and Monsey, south of Hillcrest, and west of Nanuet. The population was 33, ...

, he attended the

State University of New York at Oneonta The State University of New York College at Oneonta, also known as SUNY Oneonta, is a public college in Oneonta, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. History SUNY Oneonta was established in 1889 as the Oneon ...

, majoring in economics.John Sidgmore: Selling The World On Worldcom - Bloomberg
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* American technology chief executives 2003 deaths Deaths from kidney failure American chief operating officers 1951 births State University of New York at Oneonta alumni People from Spring Valley, New York {{US-CEO-stub