Nomi M. Bergman Fellowship

​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 (One of the following EDS sessions):
    • Leading Through Transition: April 2-4, San Diego, CA
    • Executive Leadership Presence: September 11-12, Nashville, TN
    • Leading with Power and Authenticity: September 11-13, Nashville, TN
  • Leadership Conference: October 21-22, New York, NY
  • 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.

Eligibility: Applicant must be currently employed by an industry company in a technical role, or employed by a company that supplies hardware, software or other services to the industry.

The application deadline has passed.

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.

Nikita Kandath
Regional Marketing Manager
CommScope

Swetha Srivastava
Manager, Network Engineering
Charter Communications

Jeanine Ferreira
Head of Marketing: SOHO Segment
VodafoneZiggo

Joanna Casas
Network Engineer
Charter Enterprise

Kat Kerr
OSP Manager
Charter Communications

Crystal Daniels Davis
Global Product Manager
Corning

Jin Zhou
Staff QA Engineer
ARRIS

Questions?

If you have any questions about our fellowship or would like additional information, please contact Kathleen McNally.

 


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 sponsors.