Tom Buttermore
2008 ET Program Chairman
Vice President & General Manager Global MSO Solutions
Nortel

Tom Buttermore is the vice president and general manager of cable solutions for Nortel, responsible for developing the company's cable architecture, global market strategy, and all cable marketing activities. Buttermore will be responsible for the cable solutions strategy, the identification of market opportunities and investment requirements, and the lifecycles of the solutions delivered to the market.

For over 20 years, Buttermore has been involved in strategy, technology development, and operations in the Multiple System Operator (MSO), Local Exchange Carrier (LEC), Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC), and consumer software segments. He has demonstrated tremendous leadership and success in engineering, deploying, scaling and operating new digital and packet services for various networks which include VoIP, DSL and cable modem, and digital video.

In the last decade, he has held executive roles in the Cable MSO industry, including two years as executive director of high speed data at AT&T Broadband (formerly MediaOne) and prior to that at BellSouth Interactive Media Services. At MediaOne, Buttermore successfully led the transition of the company's proprietary cable modem architecture to the new CableLabs DOCSIS standard.

Immediately before joining Nortel, Buttermore was vice president of data and voice engineering and operations at Adelphia Communications Corporation, a position he held since May 2003. While there, Buttermore led the development of Adelphia's strategic architecture for their customer facing and internal networks across both voice and data. He successfully drove all of the business relationships required for the implementation of that strategy and ensured its operational deployment.

Buttermore holds an M.B.A. in general management from Georgia State University and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Georgia.

Paul Bosco
Vice President & General Manager-Video & Broadband Initiatives and Site Executive - New England Development Center
Cisco Systems

Paul is currently Vice President and General Manager, Video & Broadband Initiatives. He also serves as Site Executive for the Cisco New England Development Center, a 1,200-person research and development facility outside Boston, MA engaged in an array of leading edge software and systems development. In addition, Paul co-chairs Cisco's Video & Connected Home Board and Global Cable Vertical team. In these roles Paul shares responsibility for the development and execution of Cisco's strategy for various service provider, content distributor, and emerging carriers worldwide.

Paul has served in general management, engineering leadership, product marketing and executive consulting roles across his 20 year career. He has held positions for high technology and consumer broadband leaders including Cisco, IBM, USWest/MediaOne, Continental Cablevision and SBC/SNET. His current personal focus is on transformation platforms for convergent service delivery to the exploding number of wired, wireless and mobile devices in our lives-including support for service velocity, feature integration, consistent experience, unified content management and overall experience leadership. He also advises various Web 2.0 R&D efforts, including joint work with MIT and the World Wide Consortium (W3C) as the future of the Web and Internet Programs.

Paul was named a Fellow of the Nemours Foundation with a focus on the application of networking technologies to children's health; served as a White House Intern at the National Economic Council focused on telecommunications economics and policy; sits on several pre-IPO high technology boards; and was named one of the "Top Twenty to Watch" in High Technology. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at MIT on research efforts focused on HDTV (DOHRS), Telecommunications Policy (RPCP) and New Media (NMIS) including work on early networked multimedia projects with Turner Broadcasting, Carnegie-Mellon University and the Dartmouth School of Medicine.

Paul is a graduate of Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Lehigh University.

Marwan Fawaz
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Charter Communications

Marwan Fawaz is the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President for Charter Communications. He has over 22 years experience in the cable industry encompassing engineering, technical operations and business development. He started his career in the industry as a design engineer at Times Mirror Cable Television where he worked for ten years, later he joined Continental Cablevision as a Vice President of Engineering for the Western region. He also worked at MediaOne as a Vice President of Operations and Engineering, served as an Executive-In-Residence at Pilot House Ventures, managed the Northwest region for Charter Communications as the Regional Vice President, and worked for Vulcan Inc., a Paul Allen company as a Technology Investment Analyst. Prior to Charter Communications he was the CTO for Adelphia Communications.

Marwan holds a BS degree in electrical engineering and MS degree in telecommunications specializing in satellite communications.

Mike Hayashi
Senior Vice President, Advanced Engineering and Technology
Time Warner Cable

Mike Hayashi was appointed Vice President Advanced Engineering and Subscriber Technology for Time Warner Cable in June of 1993. In this role Mike has managed the selection and negotiated the purchase of over 1.75 million digital set-tops per year. He has transformed Time Warner Cable's advanced services suite to include more than 4 million installed digital units across Time Warner Cable's footprint.

Mike joined Time Warner Cable in 1992 as Vice President International Development where he guided external technology partners in advanced technology product development as part of the then newly-formed Time Warner Entertainment unit.

Prior to joining Time Warner Cable Mike held various positions at Scientific-Atlanta in Georgia including Vice President Video Product Line and Marketing Director Interdiction and International markets. There he developed requirements for the first integrated electronic program guide and achieved the #1 market share slot in the UK and the #3 slot in Japan. Mike started his career at Pioneer Communications of America where he held the positions of Market Manager and Staff Engineer.

Mike graduated from St Joseph College in Yokohama, Japan in 1974, earned a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California in 1978 and an MBA from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1986.

Mike is a member of CableLabs "OpenCable" initiative and Chairman of the "OpenCable" Certification Board.

Joseph Matarese
Senior Vice President,Advanced Global Technology
ARRIS Media and Communications Systems

Dr. Matarese proudly serves as the managing member of C-COR's Advanced Technology Group, inventing and prototyping cable and telecommunications solutions that incorporate both On Demand and OSS/BSS technologies. His specific areas of interest and expertise include on demand advertising and switched digital video systems, for which he initiated C-COR's product development efforts.

Dr. Matarese joined C-COR when the company acquired nCUBE in January 2005. At nCUBE he served as chief technology officer, directing the development and execution of nCUBE's technical strategy. In this capacity he worked closely with customers and partners to identify key enabling technologies and frequently contributed as an industry presenter articulating the value of nCUBE's products and solutions. Dr. Matarese originally joined nCUBE in 1995, holding positions of field service engineer, software developer, product manager, deployment engineer and systems engineer, all in support of nCUBE's focus on video on demand.

Dr. Matarese attended MIT as an undergraduate and graduate student, obtaining a Ph.D. in Geophysics. His post-doctoral research at MIT, much of which was conducted on an nCUBE 2 server platform, covered the application of parallel computing to seismic data processing and geophysical inverse problems and included publication in the journal Science.

Dr. Matarese is a member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and the The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).

Marv Nelson
Vice President, Professional Development
SCTE

A 27-year veteran of the cable telecommunications industry, Marv Nelson is vice president, professional development, of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). He joined the SCTE staff in 1991. He has served in his current position since 1996, leading the formation and implementation of the Society's professional development opportunities.
Prior to SCTE, Nelson worked 12 years for Metrovision Inc., first as a bench technician and later as a chief technician.

Nelson holds a bachelor of arts in organizational management and MBA from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa. He is an SCTE-certified Broadband Communications Technician (BCT®) and Broadband Communications Engineer (BCE®) and an ASAE Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Tim Spencer
President and COO
Sigma Systems

Tim Spencer, co-founder of Sigma Systems, has over twenty years experience in telecommunications software design and development. As CTO, Mr. Spencer led the company's technology vision from inception through its transition in 2003, to becoming the leading provider of OSS service management products and services. As President and COO, Tim is responsible for leveraging the excellent product and customer foundations achieved while driving new growth strategies in the communications software market.


Tim's extensive experience in the communications industry includes 7 years with Bell Canada in a number of senior roles including Director of software engineering for advanced services at Bell Mobility, Bell Canada's wireless division, where he was responsible for the design and development of several real-time OSS solutions including message processing, service activation and fulfillment, inventory and network management. While at Bell, Tim also lead several international OSS consulting projects with Bell Canada International (BCI) in Central and Latin America. Tim holds a BS in Computer Science and Software Design from DeVry University, Chicago, Illinois.

Tony Werner
Chief Technology Officer
Comcast Cable Communications

Tony Werner is Comcast Cable's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. In this role he is responsible for developing and guiding the company's technology strategy and evolving network architecture, including supporting next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools and technical standards.

Mr. Werner most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Global, Inc., in Englewood, CO, leading the company's global strategy for video, voice and data services. Werner has more than 25 years of engineering and technical management experience, having held senior management positions with Qwest Communications, Aurora Networks, TeleCommunications, Inc. (TCI)/AT&T Broadband, Rogers Communications, Inc., and RCA Cablevision Systems.

A graduate of Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, MN, with a degree in Telecommunications, Werner resides in Philadelphia.