Cable biz says farewell to Rogers' Dermot O'Carroll

By Leslie Ellis

DERMOT O’CARROLL WON’T HAVE any issues settling into a retirement rhythm this week from his 17-year engineering run at Rogers Cable, most recently as SVP Access Networks. He’s already a (very) active kayaker, karate practitioner (fourth degree black belt), bicyclist, and photographer. Three years ago, he began studying Italian, and on vacation last summer, his conversational skills were so strong, a Tuscan bicycle storeowner asked him if his parents were Italian. O’Carroll, 60, is decidedly Irish, as was his (beekeeper) father and mother before him. Raised in Donegal, on the northwestern coast of Ireland, he studied electrical engineering and electronics...