Robert Kavner, currently heading up AT&T’s data systems unit is now to head the company’s Communications Products Group – a business with a $6,000m annual turnover, but which has been reportedly losing $200m a year on office private branch exchange products: Kavner will also put together a venture capital unit called AT&T Development Corp to fund the establishment of new businesses exploiting new technology developed by Bell Labs; meanwhile, he will continue to supervise the joining together of AT&T Computer Systems with the NCR Corp prize, but the job of heading up the combined computer operations has gone to NCR’s Gilbert P Williamson.
