EXTON, Pa. – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), a subsidiary of CableLabs and the applied science leader for the cable telecommunications industry for over five decades, today announced the appointment of a newly formed board of directors led by chairwoman Stephanie Mitchko-Beale, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Charter Communications. Approved on April 9, the new members will continue moving SCTE's vision forward and will help propel the cable telecommunications industry into the future.
SCTE and CableLabs jointly evaluated the composition of the board to ensure the skills and perspectives necessary to drive growth, push boundaries, and share real-time industry insight were highlighted throughout the selection of new members. Looking to build an internationally minded governance board, SCTE and CableLabs jointly appointed and approved eight new members including four executive committee members, and the SCTE membership elected three vendor and three at-large members to round out the group of 14:
Chair: Stephanie Mitchko-Beale, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Charter Communications
Vice Chair: Guy McCormick, senior vice president of network engineering, Cox Communications
Treasurer: Jan Hofmeyr, executive vice president and chief network officer, Comcast Cable
Secretary: Ron McKenzie, senior vice president of technical operations, Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
Eddie Arnold, group vice president of engineering and product delivery, Mediacom Communications
Frank Drendel, founder and chairman emeritus, CommScope
Victor Esposito, vice president of engineering, GCI General Communication
John Hewitt, vice president broadband communications, EnerSys
Ken Johnson, senior vice president of technology services, Cable One
Catherine McNaught, emerging applications market development manager, Corning Incorporated
Andy Parrott, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Vyve Broadband
Damian Poltz, senior vice president of wireline technologies and strategy, Shaw Communications
Michael Rabes, head of fixed access engineering, Vodafone
Bill Warga, vice president strategy and technology, Liberty Global Companies Combined Europe & Latin America
To gain an appointment to the SCTE board of directors, each nominee must be a senior executive of a CableLabs member company, or be an SCTE associate member with day-to-day executive responsibilities in engineering, technical operations or field operations. Board members must also support the SCTE mission, while seeking resources and commitments during their two-year term that further the objectives of SCTE. The new 14-member board takes their seats effective April 20, 2021.
Read the full announcement here.
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