Tellabs employees are grief-stricken as Tellabs Chairman and founder Michael Birck announces that the company’s CEO recently passed away after a cancer battle. Mr. Pullen’s work achievements include expanding sales beyond North America and “…conceptualizing Tellabs’ multi-million-dollar digital cross-connect product used by AT&T, Verizon, Spring, and other leading telecommunications companies” Birck says. Continue reading here.

Rob Pullen of Park Ridge and Tellabs CEO recently passed away from cancer. Photo from napervillesun.suntimes.com, story by Sandra Guy