Bright House Networks recently announced that it has promoted Danielle Wade to vice president and general manager of its Bakersfield service area.
In her new job, Wade is responsible for managing all aspects of Bakersfield’s cable operations, as well as ongoing local execution of new products and services. She reports to Kevin Hyman, executive vice president, cable operations.
“Danielle is a highly collaborative and successful leader who is community-minded and has been an important part of the team that provides outstanding service in the Bakersfield area,” Hyman said.
Wade has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the cable industry, and has worked with Bright House Networks in Bakersfield for 14 years. She previously served as the vice president of marketing and sales for the Bakersfield market, where she oversaw customer operations, the inbound-outbound call center, collections, audit, daily operations of numerous service lobbies, marketing and sales.
She has also held marketing roles with Time Warner Cable in Indianapolis and Prime Cable and Jones Intercable in the Chicago area.
Wade is an alumna of the 1993 Walter Kaitz Fellowship Program, and the 2001 Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Executive Management Program, CTAM U Harvard University.
In 2002, she was recognized by the Southern California chapter of Women In Cable Telecommunications (WICT) as the LEA Woman to Watch and as the Woman of the Year in 2008. She is a 2004-05 Betsy Magness Leadership Foundation Class XI graduate.