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Concurrent Names VPs of Engineering, Web and Mobile Video

By bgrstaff | Published: September 2, 2010
Concurrent (www.ccur.com) has appointed Andy Huang as vice president of engineering and Jim Denenny as vice president and general manager of web and mobile video solutions.
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Leviton Names IT Boss for Marketing and Sales

By bgrstaff | Published: September 2, 2010
Leviton (www.leviton.com) has appointed Chris Carrella to the position of director of technology for distribution marketing and sales. He will additionally focus on streamlining process efficiencies, reducing administrative overhead and delivering solutions that support the company's "go green" mandate through its sales channels.
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IBBS Closes SinglePipe Buy, Expands Leadership Team

By bgrstaff | Published: August 19, 2010
Integrated Broadband Services (www.ibbs.com) has announced additions to its leadership team in conjunction with the close of its acquisition of SinglePipe. Former COO of SinglePipe Cynthia Carpenter will join IBBS as vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to joining SinglePipe, she held leadership positions with Level 3, Rainbow Media, High Speed Access, Time Warner Satellite [...]
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Quintech Announces New President

By bgrstaff | Published: August 19, 2010
Quintech Electronics & Communications (www.quintechelectronics.com) has announced the promotion of Frank Elling to the office of president. Elling previously served as the company’s vice president of operations and has been with the company since its inception in 1989.
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Cox Business Names Steelman VP of Sales Channels and Programs

By bgrstaff | Published: August 5, 2010
Cox Business (www.cox.com) has tapped Larry Steelman for the new role of vice president, sales channels and programs. His priorities include sales training, sales compensation, distribution/channel strategies and sales segmentation for Cox Communications’ fastest growing organization. Prior to joining Cox Business, Steelman served in vice president and general management roles in Barco’s Out of Home Media [...]
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BigBand Announces New Director

By bgrstaff | Published: August 5, 2010
BigBand Networks (www.bigband.net) has added David Lockwood as a new member of its Board of Directors. Lockwood’s appointment to the Board was effective July 29. Lockwood is the managing partner of VA SmallCap Partners, one of BigBand Networks’ largest stockholders. Prior to his tenure with ValueAct SmallCap, Lockwood was chairman and CEO of Liberate [...]
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SCTE Names DOCSIS Co-Author as First CTO

By bgrstaff | Published: July 22, 2010
The SCTE (www.scte.org) has selected Daniel Howard to be the organization’s first chief technology officer. Howard, who co-founded and served as CTO of Broadcom (www.broadcom.com) acquisition Digital Furnace and co-authored DOCSIS specifications, brings to SCTE more than 20 years of experience in technology and standards. Howard co-authored the industry’s DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 specifications, and while [...]
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T-VIPS Adds Sales Manager for Germany

By bgrstaff | Published: July 22, 2010
T-VIPS (www.t-vips.com) has appointed Lutz Germer regional sales manager, Germany. Germer has held senior sales positions with Barco, Grass Valley/Thomson and Broadcast Television Systems/Philips. He has expertise across the video transport chain and has also built a reputation as an expert in the digital cinema market. He is based in Berlin.
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Vecima Names Hanna CFO, Moves Barry to YourLink

By bgrstaff | Published: July 22, 2010
Vecima Networks (www.vecima.com) has appointed John Hanna to chief financial officer. The company’s former CFO, Mike Barry, has been named president of YourLink, Vecima’s wholly owned wireless internet service provision company. In his new role, Barry will be responsible for managing YourLink’s wireless operations in Saskatchewan and eight cable companies in British Columbia. Founded in 2003, [...]
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Openet Adds, Shuffles Execs

By bgrstaff | Published: July 22, 2010
Openet (www.openet.com) has expanded its executive leadership team. Openet founder and CTO Joe Hogan is now heading Openet’s newly expanded Core Product Development division. This division is being expanded to allow increased innovation and development across all current and future markets. With the expansion, Hogan’s new title is CTO and GVP Core Product Engineering. Eimer McGovern [...]
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SENCORE Names CFO, National Sales Manager

By bgrstaff | Published: July 22, 2010
SENCORE (www.sencore.com) has appointed Joe Radzak chief financial officer and promoted Garrett Carter to director of national sales. Radzak brings finance expertise in the areas of tax, budgeting, compliance, forecasting, cash and treasury management, and cost accounting. Prior to joining SENCORE, Radzak was CFO at a Wisconsin-based manufacturing and distribution company, where he was responsible [...]
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Ott Named Asst. Vice President of Media Services

By bgrstaff | Published: June 16, 2010
Matthew Ott has been promoted to Assistant Vice President of Media Services for the BGR (www.broadbandgear.net) group of properties. Matt will manage BGR’s web and video strategy and lead development of new media initiatives within the BGR portfolio.
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Stuehrk Promoted to Sr. VP and Publisher

By bgrstaff | Published: June 16, 2010
Rob Stuehrk has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Publisher of the BGR (www.broadbandgear.net) group of properties. Rob will oversee day-to-day operations and be responsible for managing and expanding the BGR portfolio of products.
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Farese Joins Entropic Communications as Sr. VP

By bgrstaff | Published: June 16, 2010
Dr. Michael Farese has joined Entropic Communications (www.entropic.com) as senior vice president, engineering and operations. In this new role, Farese will be responsible for guiding Entropic’s global engineering and operations organizations, including product development, program management, quality, technical operations, and supply management.
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Clearfield Hires Schrand to Senior Tech Staff

By bgrstaff | Published: June 16, 2010
Clearfield (www.clearfieldconnection.com) has hired Brian Schrand as its senior member of technical staff. Schrand previously was senior specialist for network engineering, construction and operations at Cincinnati Bell Telephone. In his new capacity, Schrand will continue to consult with CBT on its fiber management needs, as well as advise Clearfield customers on how to most cost-effectively [...]
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East, McConkey to Participate in CCI Panel Discussion

By bgrstaff | Published: June 3, 2010
Ellen East, EVP/CCO at Time Warner Cable, and Cindy McConkey, SVP corporate communications at Scripps Networks, will participate in a panel discussion at the 2010 Cable Communications Institute. East and McConkey will address the communications challenges of cable retransmission consent and renewal negotiations. The Institute, the Association of Cable Communicators’ (www.cablecommunicators.org) graduate-level educational conference, takes [...]
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Chris Busch Named CTO at Incognito Software

By bgrstaff | Published: May 20, 2010
Chris Busch has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from his previous role of Vice President of Broadband Technology at Incognito Software (www.incognito.com). According to the company, the promotion comes at a time when Incognito Software is making significant strides to increase its product portfolio in order to better help service providers overcome their [...]
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BGTV TECH-LIVE Crew: Hermes, Austin, Ott

BGR TECH-LIVE Crew Covers the 2010 Cable Show

By bgrstaff | Published: May 20, 2010
Our own crew hit the streets of LA (or at least the floor of the LA Convention Center) to cover the 2010 Cable Show with BGTV’s TECH-LIVE VideoCast. Tim Hermes, BGR CEO, Guerin Austin, one of BGTV’s most popular reporters and Matthew Ott, BGR’s Media Services Director delivered three near same-day VideoCasts covering over 30 [...]
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SCTE Announces Candidates for Board of Directors Election 2010

By bgrstaff | Published: May 6, 2010
The SCTE (www.scte.org) has announced its slate of candidates for SCTE Board of Directors Election 2010. Ten board seats are up for election this year. Members must vote between May 15 and July 30. Newly elected directors will take office on Oct. 19 at Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans. Election details and the full candidate [...]
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Mixed Signals Expands in Latin America with Lopes

By bgrstaff | Published: May 6, 2010
Mixed Signals (www.mixedsignals.com) is expanding its presence in Latin America and the Caribbean with the addition of Rogerio Lopes as director of sales and business development for the region. In this role, Lopes is tasked with the distribution and management of Mixed Signals’ family of digital content monitoring solutions to the regions’ video service providers. [...]
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