TONY WERNER, GEORGE BOSAK, RON HARDZOG, RANDY LOVE, MARIO MAI SELECTED TO JOIN SCTE BOARD FOR 0- 4 TERM; FIRST MEETING, OFFICER ELECTIONS SLATED FOR SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO IS MON

TONY WERNER, GEORGE BOSAK, RON HARDZOG, RANDY LOVE, MARIO MASSI SELECTED TO JOIN SCTE BOARD FOR 2013-'14 TERM; FIRST MEETING, OFFICER ELECTIONS SLATED FOR SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO THIS MONTH October 11, 2013 02:24 PM

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TONY WERNER, GEORGE BOSAK, RON HARDZOG, RANDY LOVE, MARIO MASSI

SELECTED TO JOIN SCTE BOARD FOR 2013-'14 TERM; FIRST MEETING,

OFFICER ELECTIONS SLATED FOR SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO THIS MONTH

OCT. 10, 2013 (Exton, PA) The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) today announced the selection of members of the SCTE Board of Directors for the upcoming 2013-'14 term.

The SCTE Board comprises seven appointed directors, each of whom serves a two-year term, and eight regional directors, who are elected for one-year terms. The eight regional directors are selected from and elected by SCTE's 13 regional representatives, each of whom acts on behalf of an SCTE region.

For the 2013-'14 and 2014-'15 terms, Tony Werner, executive vice president and CTO of Comcast, has been newly appointed as a director, and Terry Cordova, senior vice president and CTO of Suddenlink, has been reappointed. Entering the second year of their terms are five other appointed members: Mike LaJoie, executive vice president and CTO of Time Warner Cable and chairman of the current 2012-'13 SCTE Board; Ralph Brown, CTO of CableLabs ; Pat Crull, Ph.D., group vice president and CLO for Time Warner Cable; Jim Hughes, senior vice president, Global Broadband Sales for CommScope; and Martha Soehren, Ph.D., Chief Talent Development Officer and senior vice president for Comcast University and Comcast Cable.

The eight elected directors for the 2013-'14 board term are:

George Bosak, technical training manager, Midcontinent Communications

Ron Hardzog, Jr. executive director, video engineering, Cox Communications

Roger Hughes, senior engineer, Armstrong Cable Services

Joe Jensen, executive vice president and CTO, Buckeye CableSystem

Randy Love, market project manager, Comcast Cable Communications

Mario Massi, senior manager, permit design & approval, Cogeco Cable

Nick Segura, manager, network operations, Charter Communications, and

Rick Sullivan, Midwestern sales account manager, Times Fiber Communications/Amphenol.

Hughes, Jensen, Segura and Sullivan serve on the current 2012-'13 SCTE Board of Directors.

Elected directors are selected from SCTE's regional representatives. Regional representatives for 2013-'14 are: Shane Portfolio, Comcast Cable Communications (Region 1); Nick Segura, Charter Communications (Region 2); Randy Love, Comcast Cable Communications (Region 3); Ronald Hardzog, Jr., Cox Communications (Region 4); Rick Sullivan, Times Fiber Communications/Amphenol (Region 5); George Bosak, Midcontinent Communications (Region 6); Joseph Jensen, Buckeye CableSystem (Region 7); Tommy Hill (Region 8); Derrick Hanson, Cox Communications (Region 9); Bob Legg, Suddenlink Communications (Region 10); Roger Hughes, Armstrong (Region 11); Joseph Guariglia, Comcast Cable Communications (Region 12); and Mario Massi, Cogeco Cable (Canada).

"SCTE's continued success is in no small measure due to the dedication of our board and our regional representatives," said Mark Dzuban, president and CEO of SCTE. "I'm grateful to the outgoing board members for their contributions and look forward to working with the 2013-'14 board to drive new levels of technology innovation, standards and learning for the industry."

The 2013-'14 board will meet for the first time and will elect officers on Monday, Oct. 21 in conjunction with SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2013. Expo will begin with pre-conference sessions and two pre-conference symposia, DOCSIS 3.1 Engineering and Creating the Cable Generalist, on Monday, Oct. 21 and will continue Tuesday through Thursday, Oct. 22-24 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a non-profit professional association that provides technical leadership for the telecommunications industry and serves its members through professional development, standards, certification and information. SCTE currently has nearly 14,000 members from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide and offers a variety of programs and services for the industry's educational benefit. A prime example is SCTE's Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI), an unprecedented effort to help cable operators leverage financial and environmental advantages of implementing Green strategies. SCTE has 68 chapters and meeting groups and more than 3,000 employees of the cable telecommunications industry hold SCTE technical certifications. SCTE is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization. Visit SCTE online at www.scte.org. Connect with SCTE at www.scte.org/socialmedia.

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