Speakers

Anthony Williams

Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the coauthor with Don Tapscott of WIKINOMICS: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of Web 2.0. For more than a decade, Williams has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation’s role in society. Williams’ work has been featured in publications, such as BusinessWeek, the Globe and Mail, and the Times of India, and has been widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs. Williams has consulted to Fortune 500 firms and international institutions, including the World Bank. He holds a Masters in Research from the London School of Economics and is a Ph.D. candidate there in the Department of Government.

Paul D. Woidke

Paul Woidke joined OpenTV in May 2008. With 40 years of television broadcasting and cable experience, Woidke is tasked with evolving OpenTV’s advanced advertising business in the U.S. and internationally. Previously, Woidke served for six years as senior vice president for technology at Comcast Spotlight and 11 years as chief technology officer for Adlink Cable Advertising, the Los Angeles cable interconnect. Woidke is the recipient of the Cable Advertising Bureau’s 2002 Advertising Technology Award, for the development of AdTag™ and AdCopy™, and of the SCTE’s 2006 Excellence in Standards Award. He chairs the SCTE Digital Video Subcommittee's "Working Group Five (DPI).”

Advanced Advertising Panel

Jaakko Soininen

Jaakko Soininen joined Digital Route in January 2008, overseeing business operations in North and South America. Prior to Digital Route, Soininen was the director of sales at Air Games Wireless. Previously, he spent nine years in various management roles for Comptel Corporation. Soininen has an M.A. in Applied Science and Engineering from University of Waterloo and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.

Mediation Panel

Catherine Michel

Catherine Michel is CTO and cofounder of Tribold Limited. She is the principle architect of the company’s product and solutions portfolio. Her extensive experience in CSP transformational strategy and systems development has made her a recognized authority in the industry. Prior to co-founding Tribold, Michel was a senior executive in Accenture’s Communications & High Tech practice, devising and delivering strategy and large-scale BSS/OSS projects. She also is a member of the TM Forum Executive Committee.

Service Transformation Panel

Nick Troiano

Nick Troiano joined BlackArrow as president in March 2009. Troiano oversees all go-to-market activities for BlackArrow, and is responsible for building the company’s advanced advertising business for networks and content distributors. Previously, Troiano was vice president of business development within the U.S. Partnership Group at Yahoo!, where he led a business development team responsible for cross-platform technology and advertising sales partnerships with major media customers. Before Yahoo!, Troiano was senior vice president of sales and business development for Maven Networks. Troiano has also served as executive vice president of business development at ClearStory Systems, CEO of WebWare Corporation, and as a principal at SCP Private Equity Partners.

Advanced Advertising Panel

Eric Kisiel

Eric Kisiel is responsible for the enterprise strategy of the service delivery and assurance infrastructure, as well as managing the application development team for the provisioning platform. He has a decade of experience within the telecom industry, including contributions as a solution architect, software developer and system administrator. Prior to joining Charter Communications, Kisiel worked for Adelphia Communications and Winstar Communications in similar capacities. His passion and focus is to enable an intuitive, consistent and holistic experience for internal and external consumers, as well as to reduce the cost, complexity and duration of changes to the enterprise.

Mediation Panel

David McNierney

David McNierney joined SAP through the recent acquisition of Highdeal, a leading provider of pricing and rating solutions. McNierney has a product management role within SAP’s Convergent Charging organization with a special focus on cross-industry needs. A frequent industry speaker, McNierney has more than 20 years of experience with financial and billing applications. He has also worked with many of the world’s largest telecom, technology and media companies. Earlier in his career, he held management roles at Accenture and Goldman Sachs. Based in New York, McNierney holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Fairfield University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Pace University, and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Mediation Panel

Leslie Ellis

Leslie Ellis is an independent technology columnist and owner of Ellis Edits Inc., an analysis and writing firm specializing in the technologies used in cable, multichannel and broadband delivery systems. The firm focuses on demystifying common cable and broadband technology terms surrounding the technologies and strategies of service providers. Ellis writes the weekly “Translation Please” column for Multichannel News. Author of the A-to-Z dictionary “Definitive Broadband: Next Generation”, Ellis was a contributing author to “Planet Broadband”, which describes a vision of the future as foretold by cable modem inventor Rouzbeh Yassini. Since 2001, Ellis has served as senior technology advisor to the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM). She received the National Cable Television Association’s Vanguard Award for Associates & Affiliates in 2005. Previously, Ellis served as Paul Kagan Associates’ senior technology analyst; senior technology editor for Multichannel News/Broadband Week; and managing editor of Communications Engineering & Design magazine.

Advanced Advertising Panel

Peter Lee

Peter Lee has been in the telecommunications domain for more than a decade with core expertise around Customer Care and Billing Systems across technology and business processes. In July 2008, he returned home to South Korea after spending more than 13 years at Verizon with a proven track record of architecting new breakthrough platforms, applications and services delivery, particularly in voice land line and FiOS (Fiber Optic Subscribers). Lee joined SK C&C in the capacity of general manager overseeing Sales & Marketing for the communication solutions for the next-generation of networks, including WiMAX, 3G, 3.5G networks, and fixed line including Cable and IPTV. Peter holds a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. degree in Management Information System from Temple University, USA.

Mediation Panel

Chandni Thakrar-Ochoa

Chandni Thakrar-Ochoa has 10 years of experience in Telecommunications focusing on Business Services. She is responsible for the standardization of operational processes and increasing efficiencies for Suddenlink’s Business Class Phone Product from the Point of Sale to Fulfillment. Thakrar-Ochoa oversees order flow operations and vendor relations with Suddenlink’s CLEC partner, while working hand-in-hand with the Product Development and IT Integration teams on design, testing, and implementation of system & product enhancements. Prior to working for Suddenlink, she worked for the Business Services division of Cox Communications.

Best Practices Panel

Matt Bell

For the last 14 years, Matt Bell has held various management positions in the networking and broadband industry, including BellSouth Entertainment, MediaOne, AT&T Broadband, Adelphia Communications and Charter Communications. At these posts he was responsible for field operations, commercial services, customer service operations, service delivery and network infrastructure. In 2006, Bell joined Charter Communications as Vice President of– IP Engineering and Development, and leads the OSS, IP Voice and Data Engineering, Advanced Network Support and Project Management organizations.

SMP Customer Forum

Kishore Reddy

Kishore Reddy is director of Voice Services at CableONE. His responsibilities include product management, development, support, vendor management, and end-to-end infrastructure management for both residential and business voice services. He has more than 16 years of experience in Communications, covering all vertical markets and components of the OSS/BSS and network segments. With significant experience as both a service provider and a vendor, and in both business and technical roles, he has taken multiple products from concept to successful operating stages. Prior to joining CableONE, Reddy held diverse roles at several companies, including Convergys, AT&T and General Electric. He holds a master’s in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology and a master’s in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.

Best Practices Panel

João Gomes da Silva

In November 2008, João Gomes da Silva joined ZON Multimedia, the biggest Cable TV and a multi-play provider in Portugal. He is responsible for all the company’s IT systems, including the challenges in transforming the IT architecture in order to improve quality of service to customers, reduce products time-to-market, help the business departments with technical solutions to create innovative services, and lead the IT department to become an end-to-end facilitator between the needs and the results — all while controlling and reducing cost. With more than a decade of Telecom experience, prior to joining ZON Multimedia, Gomes da Silva worked in Vodafone Portugal as IT Director. Before that, he worked in the finance industry for 11 years.

Service Transformation Panel

Arthur Orduna

Orduna manages the engineering and technology team for Canoe Ventures, helping to drive the creation of shared technology processes and standards for more robust audience targeting, interactivity and measurement. Orduna has more than 20 years of experience working in the media and interactive television industries where he has helped develop critical initiatives with standard bodies, industry organizations and providers. He is an active member of SCTE, chaired the CableLabs Working Group, which developed the EBIF technical specification for enhanced television, and is a long-term advocate of open standards-based technologies and other cross-MSO projects. Prior to joining Canoe Ventures, Orduna was a senior vice president at Bright House Networks where he helped lead the development of new technology-based products and services for video, high-speed data, voice and wireless.

Advanced Advertising Panel

Joel Melby

Joel Melby is responsible for ARRIS’ linear and advanced video advertising products as director of Product Strategy for On Demand. He has been working with digital video and On Demand technologies since 1995, including technical and business roles at Broadbus and Motorola. Melby is a graduate of Cornell University and the McCallum School of Business, Bentley College.

Advanced Advertising Panel

Ian Olgeirson

Ian Olgeirson is SNL Kagan's lead cable analyst tracking voice, video, data and other advanced broadband services. Olgeirson leads consulting projects vetting the current and future technological capabilities of cable infrastructures in North America. He is a prolific contributor to many SNL Kagan studies, providing forecasts and direction for investment, deployment and marketing of digital video, on-demand, high-speed data, DVRs, HDTV, and IP telephony services. Olgeirson also authors recognized SNL Kagan reports like Telco TV Outlook and Video on Demand. Olgeirson is a regular contributor to SNL Kagan newsletters, including Broadband Technology, VOD & ITV Investor, and Cable TV Investor. He has been quoted in multiple prominent publications, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and BusinessWeek.

Advanced Video Service Panel

Tony Rizzuti

Tony Rizzuti is Director, Business Transformation at Shaw Communications. As part of the leadership team driving Shaw's technology transformation, Tony is accountable for enabling the overall readiness of the organization, including the implementation of business process changes and change management strategies, required for the success of this strategic initiative. Tony has extensive experience in information technology and large scale transformation initiatives gained in both the communications and financial services industries. Tony has held leadership roles in a variety of functions including PMO, project/program management, operations, planning and strategic client relationship management.

Service Transformation Panel

Mike Chernovetz

Mike Chernovetz joined BroadSoft in 2004 and manages BroadSoft’s US Cable business segment. Prior to joining BroadSoft, Mike held sales and product management positions with Lucent Technologies, WilTel and Nortel. With 20 years of communications experience across both the carrier and enterprise segments, Mike is uniquely qualified to navigate the paths that carriers need to take to launch successful business services. Mike graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS in Business Administration.

Best Practices Panel

David Walden

David brings 20 years network infrastructure and ISP systems design and development from many diverse areas within the IT industry. Prior to joining WOW!, David was responsible for network design at Offutt AFB, and Incirlik AB in Turkey. David was instrumental in negotiating permission between the USAF and Turkish government officials to build the network on the military installation. After completing his military David worked as an independent contractor in Turkey assisting various ISP operators in developing their network infrastructures and support systems. In his role as VP, Internet Technology at WOW!, David is responsible for engineering, architecture and integration of the high speed data, ISP services and internal systems support. David has received his undergraduate degree in Information Systems from University of Phoenix and a member of several cable industry organizations.

Video Panel