Playing Field

Broadband Gear Report Playing Field for 11/13/2008

Acme Packet announced that Michael Thurk, former COO of Avaya, has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
The SCTE Foundation released the results of the recent election of officers for the Foundation's board of directors. The board re-elected three of its four officers:

Keith Hayes of Charter as president
Greg Allshouse of Comcast as treasurer
Mike Phebus of Jones/NCTI as secretary

The board also elected Marv Nelson, interim president/CEO of the Society, as the new VP of the Foundation, replacing John Clark, who is the former SCTE president/CEO. Also, Jim Hughes of CommScope was appointed the new chair of the Foundation's Fundraising Committee, replacing Clark.
Time Warner Cable named David Flessas SVP, technical operations. He'll be responsible for managing the company's technical operations supporting the delivery of high-speed data and telephony. Flessas comes to TWC from Sprint, which he joined in 1983 and where he was most recently VP, interconnection solutions in Sprint Network Services.
The SCTE Foundation awarded a major grant to Society member Robert Jerman. Jerman, of Yukon, OK, is a dispatch manager at Cox. He will apply the major grant toward completing his B.S. in organizational behavior from Southern Nazarene University.