SCTE Board Picks New Officers

News Wire Feed Light Reading 9/28/2016

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), today announced that Tony Werner, president, technology and product for Comcast Cable, has been re-elected as chairman of the board for the 2016-’17 term.

At a meeting here in conjunction with SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2016, the board elected a full slate of officers for the coming year. Werner is joined on the 2016-’17 SCTE/ISBE Board’s Executive Committee by:

Vice Chairman: Bill Warga, vice president, technology, Liberty Global;

Treasurer: Christine Whitaker, senior vice president, Keystone Region, Comcast; and

Secretary: Steve Williams, director, DOCSIS network operations, Charter Communications.

Warga, Whitaker, and Williams, like Werner, were all re-elected to their offices by the board.

At the meeting, the board accepted the resignation of Jim Hughes, vice president, North American MSO solution sales for CommScope, and welcomed new member Tom Adams, executive vice president, field operations, Charter Communications.

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