Voting Open for Regional Representative Election 2012

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announces Regional Representative Election 2012. Voting opens Tuesday, May 15 and concludes Friday, June 29 at 5 p.m. Eastern time.

Eight Regional Representative positions are up for election this year. The elected Regional Representatives will serve on the Operations Committee for a two-year term beginning on October 16, 2012. The 8 newly elected Regional Representatives will join the 5 elected in 2011 to the Operations Committee, representing SCTE’s 12 regions and Canada. Within 30 days of the October board meeting, these 13 representatives will elect 8 individuals from the Committee to seats on the SCTE National Board of Directors to serve a one-year term.

The candidates nominated to serve their respective SCTE Regions are:

Region 3, representing AK, ID, OR, WA
Ted Chesley, Time Warner Cable
Randy Love, Comcast Cable Communications

Region 4, representing OK, TX
Ronald L. Hardzog, Jr., Cox Communications
Kevin Lipe, Suddenlink Communications

Region 5, representing IA, IL, KS, MO, NE
Rick Sullivan, Times Fiber Communications/Amphenol (incumbent)
Alan Tschirner, LynTec Power Solutions

Region 7, representing IN, MI, OH
Joe Jensen, Buckeye Cablevision, Inc. (incumbent)
William (Jeff) Oakes, Bright House Networks

Region 8, representing AL, AR, LA, MS, TN
Jason Hansen, Conway Corporation
Tommy Hill, Mediacom Communications (incumbent)

Region 10, representing DC, KY, NC, VA, WV
Bob Legg, Suddenlink Communications (incumbent)
Gregg Wood, Time Warner Cable

Region 12, representing CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT
Joseph Guariglia, Comcast Cable Communications
Tim Noonan, Charter Communications
John Vartanian, iN DEMAND

Region 13, representing Canada
Tony Faccia, Rogers Communications, Inc. (incumbent)
Mario Massi, Cogeco Cable

SCTE members in those Regions are invited to cast their ballots on the secure website www.sctevotenow.org. Candidate biographies are included there and are also available at http://www.scte.org/elections/2012%20Election%20Profile%20Book%20-%20FINAL.pdf

Election questions should be directed to elections@scte.org.