Ron Cooper spent most of his career at Continental Cablevision, one of the most highly regarded, stable operators in the cable business. But over the past three years, he has jumped from one volatile cable company to the next, part of a rescue squad hired to put out management fires. In 1999, Cooper left his 20-plus-year cable career to join a telecom startup that sank. He quickly returned to cable, parlaying his expertise in marketing and management into a partnership to save ailing companies. His first challenge came in 2001. Cooper and former Continental colleague Bill Schleyer jumped into the AT&T Broadband fiasco to halt a plunge in profits so the operator could be sold. Today, they are struggling to wrestle scandal-plagued Adelphia Communications out of Chapter 11.
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