2nd Annual Cable Television and Broadband Expo 2005

Gary Arlen
President
Arlen Communications, Inc

Gary heads a Washington-area research and analysis firm and is a partner in the Alwyn Group LLC, a strategic consulting organization. He specializes in converging media, telecommunications and information services. His primary focus is on new applications and policy implications of broadband and digital TV services, including the "triple play." Mr. Arlen’s current work focuses on interactive systems, including IPTV, Voice over IP and the applications they delivery. He is a frequent contributor to media and telecommunications periodicals, and wrote an analytical column for nearly eight years in Multichannel News.

Karen Brown
Senior Editor
CED

Karen Brown began covering broadband technology in April 1999 as associate technology editor for Cable World magazine. At Cable World she helped develop its broadband content and applications coverage during the Internet boom. In July 2000, she joined Reed Business Information for the launch of Broadband Week. In October 2003, she moved to Wireless Week, where she writes about technology and business issues and in January 2004, her editorial responsibilities were further expanded to include feature writing for CED.

Jeff Baumgartner
Editor
CED

Jeff Baumgartner, formerly the broadband editor of Multichannel News, now devotes his expertise full-time to CED. Prior to his stint at Multichannel News, Jeff covered emerging technologies at CED. Before that, he was Denver bureau chief of CableFAX Daily, produced corporate communications for Jones Education Networks and trade industry reporting for the Encore Media Group. Jeff is responsible for the day-to-day editorial operations of CED and its ancillary products.

Leslie Ellis
Independent Analyst/Contributing Editor
CED

Leslie has written extensively about broadband communications since 1987. She writes the "Translation Please" column for Multichannel News to "de-mystify" cable engineering terms for non-technical readers. She wrote the A-to-Z dictionary "Definitive Broadband" and co-authored "The Field Guide to Broadband." With Roger Brown and Stewart Schley, she co-authored "Planet Broadband," the tale of cable modem inventor Rouzbeh Yassini and his vision for telecommunications. Ms. Ellis is also a contributing research analyst for Bear Stearns Inc., and a senior technology advisor to CTAM.

Paul Connolly
VP & GM Emerging Businesses
Scientific-Atlanta Inc

Paul leverages his more than 20 years' experience in broadband and public switched networks to help network operators generate new revenues by deploying new digital interactive services. He has held several management positions at Scientific-Atlanta since joining the company in 1995. Before that, Mr. Connolly was with Northern Telecom's Public Switching Group for nineteen years, holding design, engineering, marketing, product management and general management positions. He has been widely published and speaks at analyst conferences and tradeshows throughout the year and has appeared on panels at the NCTA, SCTE, Kagan and Soundview.

Clifford Holliday
President
B&C Consulting Services

In addition to his role at B&C Consulting, Clifford serves as an analyst for Information Gatekeepers, Inc. He recently authored a comprehensive report titled: "IPTV: The Telcos' New Light Sword," which details technologies including FTTx, PONs, IPTV, and advanced DSL techniques.

Philip Poulidis
Senior Director, Marketing
Intellon Corp.

Philip leads the product management and marketing activities for Intellon's powerline IC products. Prior to Intellon, Mr. Poulidis held various management level positions at Conexant, Novell and Aliant. He has been a pioneer in Internet-related applications and services, having spearheaded the first unified messaging service within a North American telco and was instrumental in designing triple-play applications for service providers worldwide.

Joe Seidel
Director of Partner Business Development
Microsoft TV

Joe is responsible for Microsoft's silicon and set-top box strategy worldwide and manages Microsoft's relationships with ecosystem partners in those areas. Mr. Seidel has been involved in the hi-tech electronics industry for more than twenty years, approximately fifteen years of which has been spent in the video space. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2001, he worked at Texas Instruments and ReplayTV in various engineering and business development management roles.

Carla Stratfold
Senior VP
RealNetworks Inc.

Carla joined RealNetworks in 2001 and is the senior executive responsible for the company’s cable mobile enterprise technology sales and content distribution. She has a 20-year career in technology sales and service. Prior to joining Real, she was VP of Business Development for BackWeb Technologies. Previously, Ms. Stratfold spent ten years at Oracle Corporation, where she held various executive positions including VP of Product Sales and Marketing for the US, Canada, Latin America, and Brazil. Her organization was responsible for the sales of and marketing strategies for Oracle Financials and Manufacturing, Oracle Server and Tools and eCommerce.

Sandy Teger
Co-Founder
System Dynamics Inc.

Sandy specializes in the market dynamics and customer needs for residential broadband products and services. As co-creator of Broadband Home Central, a Web site devoted to emerging trends in residential broadband, she co-authors its monthly business intelligence report. In her broadband consulting role, Ms. Teger has consulted for cable operators, technology suppliers, service providers, industry groups and investors on high-speed Internet services, cable telephony, interactive services and all forms of wireless broadband. Previously, she spent eighteen years with AT&T leading efforts in strategic planning, multimedia, PBXs, call centers and unified messaging.

John Treece
Director, Cable Business Development
Juniper Networks

John is responsible strategic planning, technical analysis, and product development encompassing all Juniper product lines for the cable market. In his previous role, John was Sr. Director of Access Network technologies for Comcast's advanced engineering group. There, he was involved with industry initiatives such as; DSG, M-CMTS, DOCSIS 3.0, and NGOD. In addition, John served as vice-chair for the NGNA head end sub-committee which defined the M-CMTS architecture eventually published as part of the NGNA plan. Prior to joining Comcast, he has held various positions in Engineering and Operations for such companies as Viacom and InterMedia Partners.

Robert G. Benya
Senior VP—On Demand Product Management
Time Warner Cable

Mr. Benya is responsible for strategic planning, design, development and implementation of new VOD services. He has held senior sales, marketing and programming positions with U.S. and international cable operators, Road Runner High Speed Online, as well as basic and premium television programming networks. At ATC, Group W Cable, Paragon Cable and Time Warner Cable, his scope of responsibilities included management of large cable systems in New York City and Scandinavia. For the last 10 years, Bob has been at the forefront of Time Warner’s product innovation efforts overseeing VOD, Time Warner Cable’s interactive programming guides and broadband online service development.

John Callahan
Senior VP—Advanced Technology Group
Time Warner Cable

John leads a team focused on software engineering and development of Time Warner Cable's next generation digital navigation platform, featuring traditional Interactive Program Guide capabilities while implementing advanced on-demand and interactive television services for deployment across their legacy and OpenCable systems. Mr. Callahan served most recently as Senior VP and CTO of TWC’s Interactive Personal Video Group. He began as a software architect and program manager for the Full Service Network interactive television project and then managed the "Pegasus Program" to deploy digital television systems across TWC. He previously held positions with AT&T Bell Laboratories and US West Advanced Technologies.

Gil Katz
Director of Cable Solutions
Harmonic Inc.—Convergent Systems Division

Gil Katz is working with MSOs to define and implement next generation architectures for on-demand services. For the past five years, he has worked on development of VOD products and solutions, including Harmonic’s market-leading Narrowcast Services Gateway (NSG). An experienced speaker, he has presented at many conferences throughout the world. Mr. Katz has served as a member of the DVB-Simulcrypt standards committee, and is a graduate of the Technion Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Engineering.

David Large
President
David Large Consultants Inc.

David is a 32-year veteran of the cable industry whose experience includes 18 years managing cable technical operations, 16 years designing products for the cable television and microwave industries and eight years providing consulting services to network operators, equipment vendors, legal firms and governmental agencies. Mr. Large was the 1988 recipient of the NCTA's Vanguard Award for Science and Technology and was inducted into the SCTE's Hall of Fame in 1998. He has published over 80 papers, has been awarded two patents covering microwave technology and CATV test equipment and is a co-author of the book Modern Cable Television Technology.

Rick Mandler
VP & GM
Walt Disney Internet Group & ABC’s Enhanced TV

Rick is responsible for all business development, production, technical, and integrated sales for Enhanced TV fare produced for all Disney-owned broadcast and cable network programming for over three years. Previously, Mr. Mandler was VP of WDIG Local and Broadcasting where he was responsible for developing and managing the Internet efforts of the ABC Broadcasting properties, including ABC-owned television and radio stations across the country, ABC Radio Networks, and the localization of WDIG’s Internet businesses. He was previously VP new media for ABC Broadcasting, GM new media for ABC Radio Networks and director of business affairs for ABC News.

Steve McKay
CEO
Entone Technologies

Mr. McKay helped Entone’s founding members launch the world’s first commercial deployment of telco video and VOD services at Hong Kong Telecom. From that deployment, Entone was established to focus on the business case for enhanced television services such as VOD and network personal video recording (nPVR). Steve has helped cable operators and telcos develop and create new business models for financially successful broadband multimedia and personal television services, including interactive on-demand and digital video recorder services He previously was CEO of Ion Global, a pan-Asian systems integrator and spent more than 12 years with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).

Frank Sandoval
Director, OCAP Specifications—Advanced Platforms & Services
CableLabs, Inc

Frank joined CableLabs in 2001 to help develop the OCAP software specifications. He has over 20 years experience developing consumer entertainment software. As a Computer Science student at the University of New Mexico, he designed and developed interactive computer graphics museum exhibits and then joined a pioneer in computer-based professional learning systems. Mr. Sandoval later became one of the first technical members of the staff of A.I.M., a Philips subsidiary, developing applications for the CD-Interactive platform and subsequently developed video games for the likes of 3D0 and Electronic Arts and worked on advanced graphics solutions for the web.

Craig Smithpeters
Manager, Advanced Technology and Standards
Cox Communications

Cox Communications Craig directs an engineering team at Cox working to develop and deploy interactive television services, the OpenCable Applications Platform, and OpenCable. He represents Cox in such industry standards organizations as ATSC, CableLabs, DVB, Java Community Process, SCTE, and SMPTE and chairs the Java Community Process' JSR 242 Experts Group for the OnRamp to OCAP. He actively participated in the development of OCAP, MHP, GEM, and ACAP iTV standards for the past several years. Prior to Cox, Craig worked for Nielsen Media Research's research and development group and began his career as a software developer for Capital One.

Mark Bakies
Director—Solutions Marketing/Routing VP/GM
Cisco Systems Inc

Mark has worked in the communications industry for over 20 years, with a broad background in data and telephony communications products engineering, product management and marketing. He joined Cisco in 1997 as product manager, leading efforts in the emerging technology of packet voice communications, and later served as Director of the Enterprise and Service Provider Systems Marketing team in the Voice Technology Group. At Motorola/Codex, Mark designed hardware and software systems in their Packet Network Communications Division. Recently, he spent 8 years at Lucent as a systems engineer specifying product requirements for voice processing, voice mail and unified communications products.

Stan Brovont
VP Marketing & Broadband Business Development
ARRIS

Stan has been with ARRIS since its inception as Arris Interactive in 1996, holding positions as Director of Marketing, Director of Business Development, and General Manager. From 1987 to 1995 he held several positions at Nortel Networks including Customer Service, Product Management, Sales, and Marketing. His last assignment was Director of Marketing, Broadband where he helped develop the Arris joint venture strategy with ANTEC.

Brian Cappellani
CTO & VP Engineering
Sigma Systems

Brian is responsible for the architectural and technology vision and deliverables for the company's award-winning Service Management Platform and Solutions Suites. A 12-year veteran in telecommunications, his extensive background in designing, architecting, and building large-scale operations and billing support systems continues to position the company well. Prior to joining Sigma, Brian worked for Accenture in numerous roles of increasing responsibility, including senior-level architecture, engineering and development management positions, held both internally and with Accenture's telecommunications practice, focusing on the wireless and satellite industries.

Charlotte Field
Senior VP National Communications Engineering & Operations
Comcast Corp

Charlotte leads a team responsible for the technical aspects of Comcast's communications platform across the nation. Before joining Comcast, Ms. Field served as Senior VP for Technical and Network Operations Organization for AT&T Broadband where she managed the Network Operations Center, National Service Activation Center for Telephony Provisioning and supported field technical operations. Prior to joining AT&T Broadband, Ms. Field held numerous technical and managerial positions in engineering, operations and systems development within the AT&T family of companies. Ms. Field is a member of Women in Cable and Telecommunications and has been recognized as the 2005 Women in Technology Award winner.

Dave Gaetani
Director, VoIP Business Development
Motorola Connected Home Solutions

David is responsible for marketing and business development within the Voice and Data Solutions Group and the Fixed-Mobile Convergence application of Seamless Mobility focusing on Cable MSOs and Alternative Service Providers. Previously, he was a leader in the technical marketing and business development efforts for Motorola's VoIP solution for Cable MSOs, including the BSR 64000 CMTS. David started working in the cable business in 1996 where he was Director of Systems Engineering for Cable Data Products. He led the Pre-Sales Support for Motorola's cable modem and cable data infrastructure equipment business.

Kathy Kirchner
GM Telephony Operations
Bresnan Communications

Ms. Kirchner played a major role in the introduction and ongoing management of Bresnans’ digital telephone service. She oversees all aspects of the company’s telecommunications and transport services and is responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing maintenance on all leased and company-owned transport facilities for advanced services, including high-speed data, analog and digital video, high-definition video, and digital telephony. Katherine also performs IP capacity planning for major hubs and regional high-speed data markets and implements capacity upgrades and carrier diversity to national backbone for IP services. Previously, she was with Montana Advanced Information Network, Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative, and Sprint/United Telephone.

Michael Adams
VP of Video Architecture & Technology—Digital Video Solutions
Terayon Communication Systems

Michael, with over 25 years of senior executive and engineering experience, serves as internal advocate for Terayon’s client roster ensuring seamless interaction between vendor products and fostering convergence between video, data and voice products. He was VP of Broadband Technology Development for the AOL Time Warner Corporate Technology and Data Operations group, served as VP of Engineering for Road Runner, and VP of Network Engineering for the Time Warner Cable Corporate Engineering and Technology group. Mr. Adams is co-author of the second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology and authored OpenCable Architecture, which received the Cable Museum 2001 Book Award.

Kristine Faulkner
VP Product Development & Management
Cox Business Services

Ms. Faulkner’s team has responsibility for leading the definition, development and implementation of commercial products for Cox Business Services’ customers, as well as product lifecycle management. Since joining Cox, her team has launched a full commercial product portfolio, including Cox Business Internet, VPN Services, Cox Optical Internet, Web Hosting Services, Dedicated LD/TF Services, circuit switched and VoIP voice services, and wireless plant extension technologies. Kristine joined Cox in June of 2000 as a Senior Product Manager of Web Hosting Services. Previously, she served as general manager and director of Internet publishing for the Daily Press in Newport News, VA.

Jeff Fryling
VP Corporate Development
Xtend Networks

Jeff has more than 15 years of experience in technology, including operations and product development. He is responsible for building the corporate infrastructure to promote the growth of Xtend’s open standards spectrum overlay product, which provides increased bandwidth all the way to the customer premise. Previously, he was a contract executive for two multi-national companies and was involved in commercial ventures with Raytheon, including roles as COO of SilentRunner, Inc., a network and information security company, and interim CEO of Perseid, an optical communications startup. With Booz Allen Hamilton, he was responsible for multiple telecommunications business development efforts.

Ed Heuck
VP Technology
Hargray Communications

Ed joined Hargray Communication Group in 1996 where he has helped develop their HFC platform into a multi-service platform. In 1983, Mr. Heuck joined what has become Adelphia. Earlier in his career, he served as a regional project engineer for Warner/Amex after being a service technician for GE Cablevision. Ed started in electronics in 1972 as a radio repairman in the USAF.

Chris Martin
VP of Marketing
Arcwave

Chris is responsible for directing product and marketing strategies and driving new technology initiatives. He has over 22 years of business and technical experience focused in the cable, wireless and Voice over IP markets. Prior to Arcwave, he was VP of marketing for Real Chip Communications and director of marketing for empowerTel Networks, both early innovators in the development of VoIP products for cable and broadband service providers. Mr. Martin was product line manager for all Base Station Subsystem products at interWave Communications. Earlier in his career, he held senior engineering positions with Memorex Telex, Broadband Technologies, and Coleco Industries.

Ian Olgeirson
Senior Analyst
Kagan Research

Mr. Olgeirson joined Kagan Research in 1999, tracking the technological infrastructure associated with the delivery of advanced broadband services. He authors several of the company's most popular newsletters including Broadband Technology and VOD & ITV Investor. Leading a team of analysts, he also contributes to numerous in-depth annual reports specializing in the emergence, deployment and evolution of digital, on-demand, high-speed data, high-definition, commercial voice and data and telephony services. In addition, he leads consulting projects vetting the current and future technological capabilities of cable infrastructures in North America.

Mark Wyman
Road Runner Business Class

Brian Yohn
Senior Director—Commercial Marketing
Comcast Online & Voice Services

Brian is tasked with accelerating revenue growth from business services targeted to small, middle market and large enterprise customer segments. His marketing responsibilities include product strategy, sales channel strategy, channel marketing programs, advertising and business development. He has been at Comcast since 1997 in a variety of product management and marketing leadership roles. Mr. Yohn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delaware.

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