About the Fellowship
The Nomi M. Bergman Fellowship is an annual fellowship that enables a high potential woman employed by a technology company to experience the strength of The WICT Network’s educational programs and robust professional network. The fellowship recipient embarks on a one-year journey designed to build crucial leadership development skills through The WICT Network’s resources and programs.
The WICT Network provides the recipient with a one-year membership and will underwrite registration costs and travel stipends for the following programs:
- Executive Development Series – April 8-9, September 17-18 or September 17-19, 2025
- Leadership Conference – October 20-21, 2025
- Tech It Out – TBA
The recipient of the fellowship is selected based in part on the applicant’s ability to describe how receiving the fellowship will positively impact their leadership skills to the benefit of their organization and the industry as a whole.
Gimette DeLaughter
Director, B2B Field Operations – West
Optimum Cable
Gimette DeLaughter is the Director of B2B Field Operations at Optimum Cable, where she leads the strategic direction and execution of field operations across the Western region. In this role, she oversees internal field teams responsible for delivering high-quality telecommunications services to business customers, with a focus on optimizing operational efficiency, enhancing service delivery, and driving customer satisfaction.
Before joining Optimum, Gimette served as Director of Product Management at Comcast, where she played a key role in launching residential products across the Central Division. Her work centered on driving revenue growth, improving customer experience, and aligning product initiatives with strategic business goals.
Prior to Comcast, she spent over a decade at Cox Communications in leadership roles spanning Engineering, Technology Operations, and Field Operations. She began her career at The Weather Channel, contributing to the development of interactive television products.
Gimette holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from The University of South Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University. She is a passionate advocate for women’s leadership and professional development, having served in various board positions for the WICT Network Southeast chapter, including as Chapter President in 2022. She is also a graduate of the WICT Rising Leaders program (2011) and Half the Sky program (2018).
Based in Plano, Texas, in her spare time Gimette is probably traveling to exotic destinations or planning her next adventure.
Nomi Miron Bergman served as the President of Bright House Networks from 2007-2016. In that capacity, she and her team provided corporate guidance, execution, and oversight of technology, product and strategic partnerships across the company’s video, broadband, voice and wireless platforms. Nomi began her career as a systems consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co, and then joined Advance Publications’ Systems Group, owned by the Newhouse family. After the formation of the Time Warner/Advance Newhouse partnership in the early 1990s, she joined Time Warner Cable, working in customer care, business operations, and IT. Later, as Vice President and General Manager of High Speed Data Services for Time Warner Cable’s Charlotte, North Carolina division, she led the launch of the RoadRunner© broadband Internet service. From there, Nomi was part of the senior management team that successfully launched Bright House Networks in 2003.
Nomi is a true champion of workplace diversity and inclusion and has been actively involved with WICT, CableLabs, NCTA, SCTE, CTAM and NAMIC. She served on the Board of Directors for WICT, and is a graduate of WICT’s first Betsy Magness Leadership Development Institute (BMLI) class of 1994. She was recognized by WICT and SCTE with the Women In Technology award in 2004, in 2009 she was recognized as CED’s Person of the Year, and she received the Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership from NCTA. In 2011 she was recognized with WICT’s highest honor, Woman of the Year. Through her participation and leadership with these important groups, Nomi has become a key spokesperson and advocate for industry innovation and new competitive technologies and services, all with the goal of continuously improving customer value and satisfaction.
Past Recipients
Titles reflect position at the time of the Fellowship.
2024
Leeann V Mitchell
Senior Technical Program Manager
RevGen Partners
2023
Nikita Kandath
Regional Marketing Manager
CommScope
2022
Swetha Srivastava
Manager, Network Engineering
Charter Communications
2021
Jeanine Ferreira
Head of Marketing: SOHO Segment
VodafoneZiggo
2020
Joanna Casas
Network Engineer
Charter Enterprise
2019
Kat Kerr
OSP Manager
Charter Communications
2018
Crystal Daniels Davis
Global Product Manager
Corning
2017
Jin Zhou
Staff QA Engineer
ARRIS
Questions?
If you have any questions about our fellowship or would like additional information, please contact Avery Reeves.
The WICT Network’s Fellowships are supported by the following chapters:
Florida
Great Lakes
Greater Ohio
Greater Philadelphia
Greater Pittsburgh
Midwest
Southeast
Southwest
The WICT Network gratefully acknowledges the Women in STEM sponsor.
The WICT Network gratefully acknowledges the Nomi M. Bergman Fellowship partner.
