Terry Cordova Re-Elected SCTE Board Chairman

Denver – SCTE Cable-Tec Expo -- The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced Monday that Terry Cordova, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Suddenlink Communications, has been re-elected as chairman of the board for the upcoming 2014-2015 term.

At a meeting here at the show, the board also elected a full slate of officers for the coming year, with Cordova being joined on the  2014/2015 SCTE board’s Executive Committee by:

-Vice Chairman: Tony Werner, executive vice president and CTO, Comcast Cable;
-Treasurer: Christine Whitaker, group vice president and Chief Learning Officer, Time Warner Cable; and
-Secretary: Nick Segura, manager of network engineering, Charter Communications.

According to SCTE, Bill Warga, vice president, technology and a member of the Chief Architecture Group for Liberty Global, has been appointed to replace Mike LaJoie, the executive vice president and CTO of Time Warner Cable, on the SCTE board. In June, LaJoie announced that he plans to retire from TWC at the end of the year.

“The SCTE Board of Directors’ commitment and guidance are reflected in the creation of our Corporate Alliance and Energy 2020 programs, our new international presence and a surge in activity at the chapter level,” said Mark Dzuban president and CEO of SCTE, in a statement. “I’d like to thank Mike LaJoie and our outgoing secretary, Jim Hughes, for their tireless support, and to welcome Bill Warga to the Board. I look forward to working with Terry Cordova, the rest of the Executive Committee and the entire Board of Directors as we expand the size and scope of our contributions to the industry in the year ahead.”

The 2014-2015 SCTE Board of Directors conducted its first board meeting today following the election of its officers Denver.

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