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Lucent’s Russo Appointed as Vice Chair of President’s NSTAC

Arlington, Va., May 19, 2004 - President Bush announced on May 17, 2004, that he intends to designate Ms. Patricia F. Russo, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lucent Technologies, as Vice Chair of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). She replaces Mr. F. Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO of BellSouth, newly appointed as the NSTAC Chair.

The President's NSTAC is composed of up to 30 presidentially appointed industry leaders (usually chief executive officers). In its advisory role to the President, the NSTAC provides industry-based analyses and recommendations on a wide range of policy and technical issues related to telecommunications, information assurance (IA), infrastructure protection, and other national security and emergency preparedness concerns.

One of the executives who helped launch Lucent in 1996, Ms. Russo has spent 20 years of her career managing some of Lucent's and AT&T's largest divisions and most critical corporate functions. Ms. Russo was named chairman of Lucent in February 2003.

She is a member of the board of Lucent Technologies, Schering-Plough Corporation and Georgetown University. Ms. Russo also is a member of the Network Reliability Interoperability Council, and in April 2003 was appointed by Governor James McGreevey the New Jersey Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development.

She graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in 1989 and received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She also received an honorary doctorate in entrepreneurial studies from Columbia College in South Carolina, as well as an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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