The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has announced the slate of candidates for the SCTE’s board of directors election 2010:
Region 3 Director (representing Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington)
• Bailey Shewchuk, vice president and general manager of Arris
• Steve Taber, vice president of engineering and technical operations at Comcast Cable Communications
Region 4 Director (representing Oklahoma and Texas)
• Daniel Karnish, director of western operations at Cox Communications
• Leslie W. Read, owner of Read Broadband Services
Region 5 Director (representing Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska)
• Rick Sullivan, Midwestern sales account manager for Times Fiber Amphenol (incumbent)
• Sean Gallagher, director of engineering at Charter Communications
Region 7 Director (representing Indiana, Michigan and Ohio)
• Mary Gilliland, senior sales manager at CommScope (incumbent)
• Joseph Jensen, executive vice president/CTO at Buckeye CableSystem
Region 8 Director (representing Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee)
• Brian Hemmings, regional sales representative at Southern Sales Group
• Tommy Hill, director of area operations at Mediacom Communications
Region 10 Director (representing Washington, D.C., Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia)
• Robert Legg Jr., vice president of technical operations at Suddenlink Communications (incumbent)
• James Kersnowski, vice president of technology integration video support at Time Warner Cable
Region 12 Director (representing Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont)
• Bob Foote, vice president of sales for major markets at TriNet Communications (incumbent)
• Susan Adams, senior vice president of engineering/technical operations at Comcast Cable Communications
Director-At-Large Canada (representing SCTE’s Canadian members)
• Boris Eventov, director of digital video engineering at Cogeco Cable
• Tony Faccia, vice president of wireline access networks at Rogers Cable Communications
• Bruce Marshall, technical director at Shaw Cablesystems
Director-At-Large (representing all SCTE members) (two candidates elected here)
• Dick Amell, vice president of engineering at Time Warner Cable (incumbent)
• Dick Green, president of Richard R. Green and Associates
• Alan Tschirner, vice president of technology and engineering at the NCTC
SCTE members can cast their votes online May 15 to July 30. Newly elected directors will take office to begin their two-year terms on Oct. 19 in conjunction with the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2010, which is set for Oct. 20-22 in New Orleans.
