Greg Brown left a job at Ameritech to take the CEO position early last year at Micromuse.

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Greg Brown left a job at Ameritech to take the chief's position early last year at Micromuse.

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Brown, 54, put in 28 years in telecom, including a stint at Ameritech, where he won praise as an overhauler.

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Ameritech, the Baby Bell covering much of the upper Midwest, has posted a stunning 1, 725% total return since it started trading November 1983.

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SBC's bid for Ameritech, making it clear that, unless the company makes fairly dramatic market-opening concessions, it has a poor chance of winning approval.

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SBC's buyout of Ameritech and the conditions placed on the merger by the FCC have changed the picture, says Zeke Robertson, an SBC senior vice president.

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Louis cellular phone company, to Ameritech in 1991.

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In 1999, it added Ameritech to its fold.

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Brown graduated in 1969 with a science degree from Ohio University, worked his way up the ranks of Bell companies in the Midwest and later headed a restructuring at Ameritech and ran its Illinois Bell unit.

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