Dinesh Jain Named CEO of Alphabet’s Access Unit

Jeff Baumgartner — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:58:00 +0000

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has tapped a cable industry vet to run Access, the unit that operates the Google Fiber and Webpass businesses.

Dinesh (Dinni) Jain, most recently COO of Time Warner Cable, started as CEO of Access today, the company announced in this blog post.

Jain takes on that role almost seven months after Gregory McCray, the former CEO of Access, stepped down after just five months on the job. McCray had come on board to replace Craig Barratt, who was named CEO of Barefoot Networks about a year ago.

As the head of Access, Jain will lead the way from the company’s headquarters in California.

Jain, an exec who is also late of what used to be Insight Communications (acquired by TWC in 2012) and NTL (now part of Virgin Media/Liberty Global) in Europe, is also coming on board following a recent string of tweaks to Alphabet’s strategy for Access.

In the fall of 2016, Google Fiber hit the pause button on its ambitious expansion plans so it could concentrate in its current deployments and pursue less expensive wireless alternatives following the acquisition of Webpass.

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Last week, Access confirmed that Webpass was winding down operations in Boston following a review of its business there, while continuing on in markets such as Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Miami, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Diego.

Cathy Fogler, another vet from the cable industry, joined Access last year to head up sales and marketing.

Time Warner’s Dinesh Jain Named NAMIC Conference Co-Chair

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000

NAMIC Tuesday named Time Warner Cable chief operating officer Dinesh (Dinni) Jain as its honorary co-chair for the 29th Annual NAMIC Conference.

"We are excited to have one of our industry’s most accomplished and influential business leaders serve as honorary co-chair for this year's conference," said Eglon E. Simons, NAMIC's president and chief executive officer. "NAMIC is also pleased to continue its partnership with Time Warner Cable, a company that shares our goal of advancing diversity within our industry."

Jain, who has served as Time Warner Cable’s COO since January 2014, will preside over the conference, which is scheduled for Sept. 29-30 at the New York Marriot Marquis in New York City as part of the cable industry's Diversity Week.

NAMIC said another co-chair will be named at a later date.

Jain added: "I’m incredibly proud to be part of an industry that embraces and celebrates the differences in each of us. We bring unique perspectives and points of view to what we do based on our own life experiences, and being open to them makes us all better — and better able to reflect the needs of the customers and communities we serve. I am honored to be co-chair of this year’s NAMIC Conference.”

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