BMLI Class 48

VP, Enterprise HR Technology & Analytics

Tammy currently serves as the VP of Enterprise HR Technology & Analytics team at Cox Communications where she is responsible for HR Technology, Reporting & Analytics, the Employee Service Center, Project and Portfolio oversight, Change Management and Strategy setting for the People Solutions Team.   Tammy has been in this role for over 3 years and has been instrumental in the launch of Workday and ServiceNow tools as well as co-created and led a company-wide transformation initiative for the last 2 years.  Prior to joining Cox, she served in several Operations & IT executive leadership roles with ABM, ADP and Equifax.   Tammy has a B.S. degree from the State University of New York and an MBA from the University of Maryland.  She resides in Atlanta with her spouse and two children and in her free time, she enjoys international travel, pickleball and cooking. 

Executive Director, Solutions Management

Tie Ali is an Executive Director of Solutions Management at Comcast Business. She is based at the Philadelphia office and has been with Comcast for thirteen years. She has a strong background in technology and telecommunications coupled with a long history in operational strategy and process development. Tie prides herself on being a champion of Change Management who drives process frameworks for complex product solutions. 

Tie began her career as a Project Manager overseeing service delivery of voice and data integrated circuits. Early in her career, she aspired to become a technology expert and a leader. She accomplished both within the first two years of being in the telecommunications industry. Tie’s accomplishments led to her first job at Comcast in 2010. Since joining Comcast, Tie has become an expert in deploying strategic business initiatives that continuously improve operational performance and achieve business growth goals. As a dynamic and engaged leader, Tie constantly strives to develop high performing teams to deliver competitive and creative solutions that exceeds business objectives. This has become her passion. She believes that effective leaders build high-performing teams by setting the mission, instilling positive and constructive values, fostering collaborative work environments, and delivering output for the business. 

Tie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from Peirce College; and she earned an Associate degree in Computer Information Systems from the Community College of Philadelphia. 

She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and family.  

Executive Director, Product Management

Sabrina Alimi is the Executive Director of Product Management focused on Insights & Analytics for FreeWheel. In this role, she leads a global team of Product Managers designing advance reporting solutions ranging from actionable frontend dashboards to backend data feeds powering BI systems of some of the biggest premium publishers and distributors. 

Prior to moving to Product Management Sabrina ran Freewheel’s Advisory Services consulting group helping shape the next generation of TV advertising. Sabrina worked with FreewWheel’s clients to solve complex industry challenges including introducing new programmatic and addressable advertising products to the market, managing yield across fragment distribution platforms and evolving systems and processes as linear and digital TV unified.  

With 15 years of advertising experience, Sabrina joined FreeWheel in 2013 from the Interactive Advertising Bureau where she was the senior manager of Industry Initiatives and Mobile Marketing Center of excellence. In this position, she led committees and working groups to develop industry guidelines and best practices. Sabrina also worked at Microsoft Advertising, supporting agency and advertiser clients in a technical support role.   

Sabrina coaches a youth girls lacrosse team and plays on a post-collegiate women’s lacrosse and volleyball team. 

Sabrina has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Media, Arts and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She also graduated from two prestigious industry programs: Comcast’s Women in Leadership and WICT’s Coaching Catalyst. 

Sabrina currently resides in Greater Boston. 

Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations

Jessica Allsopp is the Vice President of Marketing & Sales Operations for Comcast Central Division. Based out of Atlanta, Jessica leads the development and execution of critical frontline sales tools, our go-to-market initiative management, sales communications, frontline enablement and readiness, as well as employee programs. Her team works closely across functional partners to ensure flawless execution of all sales and marketing initiatives to drive performance and culture.  

An industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, Jessica holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University. She has worked across various functions in the telecommunication industry including sales channel, retention, strategic planning, performance and deployment.  

Jessica is goal oriented, analytical, a servant people leader and has an acute ability to translate complex business objectives into tactical execution. Under her leadership, her teams have accomplished national transformations and industry leading programs.

She has three boys – Colton, Jackson and Nolan – that keep her and her husband (Kevin) super busy, typically with some sort of sports activity. She spends free time volunteering at church, with the Red Cross, for her sons’ schools and serves as the fundraising chair for the PTA. 

Vice President of Brand Marketing and Strategy

Michelle Aragon is the Vice President of Brand Marketing and Strategy at Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales business of Charter Communications. Ms. Aragon is responsible for directing the long-term vision and marketing strategy for all of Spectrum Reach’s multi-screen, advanced advertising products.  

Prior to joining Spectrum Reach in 2020, Ms. Aragon held an executive leadership role at MAGNA Global and spent the previous years on the agency and brand side.  

Ms. Aragon has served on the Operating Board of She Runs It, the Board of Trustees of the John A. Reisenbach Foundation, as a Board Member of the New York Chapter of Step Up and is a founding member of Chief. 

Ms. Aragon holds a B.S. from the University of Idaho and, received additional professional certification from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

SVP – Production

Meg Aronowitz is a Senior Vice President of Production for ESPN who oversees the “school production project” in the ACC, SEC, AAC and Big 12 conferences. Meg and her team work directly with the 50 production units at each school to develop their content and produce linear and digital events on the ESPN platform. Her team is responsible for over 1100 linear and 3000 digital productions annually. 

Meg is the production point of contact for the NCAA and oversees several college sports at ESPN including softball. She is most notably known in the sports community for her passionate work in growing collegiate softball, volleyball, and gymnastics. 

Softball coverage, under Aronowitz since 2006, has expanded from just the WCWS to now include thousands of regular-season games, conference tournaments, and every game of NCAA post season.  

Aronowitz joined ESPN in 2001 as an assignment editor on the news desk. She was promoted in 2004 to senior production coordinator and in 2005 Meg was promoted to Production Manager and helped launch ESPNU. Aronowitz was promoted to coordinating producer in 2007 and has overseen multiple college sports over the years.  

In 2014 Meg joined the SEC Network to oversee the Olympic Sports and school productions. Aronowitz also played a significant role in launching the ACC Network in 2019.   

Prior to ESPN, Aronowitz worked on the news desk at CNN in Atlanta, GA. She played softball at Emory University and graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.  

Senior Vice President of Strategy Billing & Design

Stephanie is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Over the past 18 years she has roles in Customer Operations, Finance, Technology, and Business Intelligence for both Comcast and Charter Communications. During that time, she has grown from a Manager in Finance to now being the Senior Vice President of Billing Strategy and Design at Charter Communications.  
In her current role Stephanie leads approximately 500 individuals with a yearly budget of over $70m. Her organization is responsible for delivery the business’ go-to market strategy including deploying new products and services, enabling digital customer and agent experiences, and ensuring our people, processes, and technology are able to support our short- and long-term business objectives in a flexible manner. Her responsibilities span both our traditional cable business (internet, video, and landline voice products) as well as helping to lead our entry into the wireless business and driving an industry-recognized best in class converged experience across the lines of business. Prior to joining Charter, she most recently led the Information Systems Design and Strategy organization for Comcast’s Residential, Mobile, and Business Services units.  

SVP, Global Agile Transformation

Christina Villano has spent the last twenty years gaining extensive experience in Strategic Corporate Development, Go to Market Strategies for emerging tech and developing customer success strategies in a converged Tech, Media & Advertising world. Her expertise spans across the domestic and international marketplace. She is passionate about business development and partnering to build strong alliances. 

Christina has recently taken a role as part of Charter Communications Corporate leadership team in Customer Operations as the GVP of Business Integration where she will be leading large scale cross-functional strategic Initiatives providing oversight and coordination for all residential and SMB product lines (Video, HSD, Voice, and Mobile) between Customer Operations and key internal business partners in Product, Advanced Engineering, and Technology. 

Prior to this Christina was the VP of Strategic Initiatives for four plus years at Spectrum Reach, the $2 Billion advertising business for Charter Communications. The organization is an enterprise team that is responsible for Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Implementation and Program Management.  

In Parallel, Christina has continued to volunteer and or take roles that focus on Program Development in the Non-Profit and Mission driven sector. For the past fifteen years she has held board positions that advance women’s equality and rights as well as program development roles at Mentoring USA, creating a national program for those re-inventing their careers that need emotional support as well as an executable plan. With both her background and education in both Business/ Organizational Behavior and Social Work / Justice has afforded these experiences.   

In addition, she is one of the five proud Co-Founders of TechBae. A community driven organization that supports the advancement of rising stars and diversity and inclusion within the technology industry. The organization was founded in October 2018 and has since helped hundreds of women connect and inspire each other. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12162631/.  

Vice President of Financial Analytics

Susan Bennett serves as Vice President of Financial Analytics for Comcast, where she has been working for the last 6 ½ years.    Susan leads an advanced analytic team that specializes in test design and measurement, impact assessment, process optimization, and financial modeling.  Her team is responsible for providing data driven insights that inform revenue and subscriber growth strategies for the connectively and platform segment of Comcast.   

Susan is a leader in the field of business analytics with 25+ years of experience across multiple industries.  Prior to Comcast, Susan was a senior consult within the Ad Tech division at Oracle, supporting clients in the Retail field.  Prior to that, she held various leadership roles in strategy and analytics for CareerTrack, US West, Qwest, and CenturyLink.    

Susan has a B.S. in Marketing with a minor in Math from the University of Colorado, Boulder.    Susan also completed the Wharton Women in Leadership program.  In addition, Susan serves as an Executive Sponsor of development programs at Comcast including Tech Women Colorado branch and the Women of EBI speaker program.  Susan is also an active mentor working with a diverse slate of talent helping to inspire and grow the next generation.  

Susan lives in Colorado with her husband, daughter, and two dogs.   

Executive Director of Engineering Operations

Glenda Blough is a leader in Technical Program Management at Comcast. Glenda has spent most of the last 9 years at Comcast in the Technology organization, in the Global Product team for the past several years. In her role, Glenda is responsible for Global Device programs spanning Comcast’s Broadband, Entertainment and Smart Home product lines. She has launched Comcast’s latest technology through new Wireless Gateways, Set Top Boxes, Cameras, Touchscreens and other devices in close collaboration with Business and Field partners. Prior to Comcast, Glenda earned her Master’s Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific University and spent her early career as an I/O Psychology consultant at a small firm just outside Seattle. Glenda resides in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with her Husband and 2 year old Son. She enjoys spending her free time with family, playing outside and enjoying long weekend trips.  

Senior Director of Video Operations

Stephanie joined Spectrum/Charter Communications and the cable industry in 2018 as Director, Video Metrics & Analytics.  In two years, she helped facilitate a 50% reduction in customer impacting video outages.  In July 2020, Stephanie was promoted to Senior Director, Video Tools & Automation merging the Metrics & Analytics team with the power of the Tools & Automation team.  In her current role as Senior Director, her team develops tools and automation platforms for Video Operations as part of the Network Operations organization.  Her main goal is to provide visibility and identify efficiencies ultimately improving the customer experience. Notable accomplishments include automation of the channel launch, channel rebrand and channel removal processes which could span 2 weeks previously and now is accomplished in one day as well as monitoring dashboards for Video On Demand and Switched Digital Video health scores and Linear Alarm Correlation. 

Stephanie is an avid mentor in several programs including Spectrum Women, the NetOps Technical Leadership Development Program, the NetOps Internship Program and WICT.  Most recently, Stephanie received a WICT Rocky Mountain 2023 Leader to Watch award and was selected for the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute Class 48. 

Prior to joining Spectrum/Charter Communications, Stephanie spent 13 years in the software development industry focusing on customer excellence, client implementations, and product management.  She earned a B.S. from Wittenberg University and then furthered her education with a J.D. from University of Nebraska College of Law.   In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and son. 

Vice President of Talent Acquisition

Christine Calandros is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition in Sales & Marketing for Charter Communications. In this role, Ms. Calandros designs and executes innovative, scalable and centralized recruiting strategy for Sales & Marketing in the areas of strategic sourcing and pipelining, recruitment marketing, screening and selection, reporting and analytics. 

Prior to this role Ms. Calandros was the Head of Americas Recruiting for the Royal Bank of Scotland where she created holistic resourcing strategies to deliver Talent solutions for all Americas professional & executive hiring, campus recruiting and contingent labor. Her prior experiences include recruitment and operational leadership roles with Advantage xPO providing comprehensive workforce solutions to Fortune 100 companies. 

Ms. Calandros’ expertise ranges from all levels of hiring from hourly to executive talent with an emphasis in recruiting process design and implementation, technology integration and comprehensive management of Managed Services Programs within global organizations.   

SVP – Employee Touchpoints

Colleen Cone is Senior Vice President of of Employee Touchpoints for Altice USA.  Previously, Colleen served as Vice President of Human Resources to the Northeast Division of Comcast. Prior to Comcast, Colleen was a Human Resources Executive at several global technology companies, including Dyn Oracle and Skillsoft.  

A recovering lawyer, Colleen’s background includes working as an employment attorney and HR Consultant at New Hampshire’s largest law firm and managing a diverse range of legal and employment matters. A graduate of Saint Anselm College, she earned her law degree at the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. 

Colleen has been recognized by New Hampshire’s Union Leader as a 40 Under Forty award recipient and was named one of Workplace Magazine’s “Game Changers,” a national award designed to recognize those in workforce management who are pushing the field forward with innovative people-management processes. Active in the community, Colleen has been a Board Member of numerous non-profits, including Families in Transition an organization dedicated to preventing and breaking the cycle of homelessness.   

Colleen and her husband Rick live in Auburn, New Hampshire with their two children Walker (8) and Anna (7).   

Vice President of Fulfillment Operations

Exemplify…Educate…Evolve…Execute…Exceed

This is the mantra that guides LaKendra personally and professionally. 

In her current role, LaKendra leads a team of customer experience professionals in delivering $30M in gross revenue for Cox Business nationally. Her focus on best-in-class execution is underscored by a commitment to diversity, employee engagement and talent development. 

Before joining Cox Business in 2021, LaKendra held several leadership roles with AT&T. 

An interest in Diversity & Inclusion, coupled with what she believed to be a gap in support and engagement of millennial employees led LaKendra to create oxyGEN, an Employee Resource Group. 

This 501c3 organization seeks to Attract, Develop and Retain future leaders in business. 

Access to education is one of her passions, she is past chair of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Giving Campaign.  She mentors future leaders across the country both 1:1 and through formal mentoring circles and has been recognized as a Champion of Diversity.  She currently serves the Cox Communications National Diversity & Inclusion Council. 

LaKendra has been recognized as a Gold Level Presidential Volunteer Service Award Winner by both the Obama and Trump Administrations in honor of the volunteer work she does in the community.  Additionally, her work in technology and communications earned her recognition as a BEYA Modern Day Technology Leader.      

She enjoys working out, cooking for friends, traveling and shoe shopping!

Senior Director of Platform Distribution Sales

Sarah Flood is senior director, platform distribution sales for The Walt Disney Company. In this role, she is an influential business leader with over nineteen years of experience in securing complex distribution deals, strategic planning, project management and implementation, content distribution, and new product development. Her work spans The Walt Disney Company’s linear, DTC, digital products, and services. In her current role she oversees the management of over 30 accounts with various deal priorities and account complexities. 

Sarah is a mentor in the American Corporate Partners mentor program.  This is a program for Military Spouses who are looking for their next career in life.   

Sarah was a member of the leadership team that pioneered the ESPN Women’s ERG and developed the mission of creating resources for women at ESPN. The goal of which is to give women a voice by creating forums to generate perspective of the women of ESPN around both timely and forward-looking topics and issues. 

Sarah currently resides in western Massachusetts with her Husband, three children and her Bernese Mountain Dog, Summit. She received her undergraduate degree from Ithaca College and an MBA from The University of Connecticut. 

Vice President of eProcurement Solutions and Analytics

Sheetal Gattani is the Vice President of eProcurement Solutions and Analytics at Charter Communications, a leading broadband connectivity company that serves over 30 million customers in the US through its Spectrum brand. Sheetal has worked with Charter for 11 years including her time consulting on their eProcurement systems. Sheetal’s scope of expertise includes Contract Management, Procure to Pay, SAP S/4 Hana, Ariba Network and Business Objects for Procurement analytics and reporting.  

Sheetal’s notable achievements at Charter include driving due diligence for data migration and leading system integrations of the Procurement applications during the merger of Charter with Time Warner Cable and Bright house Network. Sheetal played a key role in the transformation project from legacy ERP to the new ERP system. Sheetal has graduated from WICT’s “Leading with Power and Authenticity” Leadership program, “Half the Sky”, and received an “Advanced Management Certificate” from Olin Business School. Sheetal is on the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Technology Thought Leadership committee.  Prior to Charter, Sheetal worked in various roles as Business/Quality Analyst, Project Manager at clients like Elsevier, Learning Objects, Pacific Life Insurance. She graduated as Bachelor of Engineering in 2002 from India.  

Vice President of Enterprise Data & Analytics

Christine Joy serves as Vice President, Enterprise Data & Analytics for Comcast’s Central Division. In this role, Christine leads a Business Analytics team of more than 60 analysts and leaders all of whom collectively support the division’s reporting and analytic needs for all six primary functions of business. 

It is her team’s mission to utilize data to provide actionable insights that guide business strategy through a proactive, strategic partnership; using broad knowledge of the business and data to analyze and answer complex questions, leveraging advanced data science and AI to automate and optimize business outcomes. 

Since joining Comcast in 2012, Christine has been nominated and has won Comcast’s coveted ‘Circle of Success’ award for her outstanding work on the xFi Advantage product launch in 2018 and was nominated again in 2022 for her work on the innovative Offer Eligibility Evolution initiative. Recently Christine spearheaded internal programming, such as DataVision and Innovation Lab, to invigorate and challenge her teams with great success.   

Prior to joining Comcast, Christine spent over five years in the advertising industry where she managed strategy, budgets and production operations for high-end hospitality clients. 

Christine holds a Bachelor of Science in Advertising from the University of Florida and is a graduate of the 2015 Half the Sky and 2016 WICT Rising Leaders Program cohorts, both executive leadership programs for women. She is the Executive Sponsor for the Out@Comcast employee resource group, is a member of SCTE, both the Women’s Network and TechWomen at Comcast, Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), has served as a mentor to students at Georgia Tech for the 2015-2016 school year through WICT’s mentoring program, and was recently accepted into the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute for 2023.  

In her free time Christine has a penchant for travel, whether it’s exploring her city of Atlanta or a weekend getaway someplace new. She loves trying new restaurants and staying up on the local dining scene, serving as the go-to resource for her friends and family. She is also on the Hospitality Committee for her neighborhood’s HOA and enjoys running 5Ks every Saturday she can to support different local charities each week; her plan is to further her support by joining the board for a nonprofit later this year. 

VP, Engineering Operations 

Sally Huriaux is the Vice President of Engineering Operations for the Comcast West Division. In this role, Sally is responsible for providing direction on the engineering and technical aspects of network engineering for the West Division, leading a team of over 350 Headend technicians, engineers, and leaders across 13 states. She is also responsible for executing strategy for the Headend, Systems Integration Team, and the Critical Infrastructure teams while lending support to our regional Construction, Technical Operations, Network Maintenance, and Finance teams. Additionally, Sally is responsible for the daily operations of the 435 headend facilities across the West Division, developing long-term plans that will help us continue providing a best-in-class experience for our customers.

Sally has been with Comcast since 2007, and along the way has held leadership positions in Engineering, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Business Planning, Data Engineering, Field Operations, Project Management and more.

Sally is a Colorado native who enjoys hiking, paddleboarding, horseback riding and spending time with her family and friends. 

Assistant Vice President of Sales Enablement

Jennifer is a strong leader with a proven track record building high-performing teams and driving results. She currently serves as Assistant Vice President of Sales Enablement, Residential Sales, at Cox Communications.  In this role, she leads multi-faceted teams focused on Sales Process Design and Improvement, Call Quality, Change Management, Communications, Knowledge Management, and Training Development and Delivery to provide Sales representatives with the resources, knowledge, and skills to serve their customers best. 

Before joining Cox Communications in 2015, Jennifer had a well-established brand for driving customer-focused results in the Automotive, Software, and Defense industries. 

Jennifer received her undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University and has recently joined Auburn’s 100+ Women Strong organization to assist with recruiting, retaining, and rewarding female students in Auburn’s College of Engineering.   

She lives outside Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two teenage boys.  Jennifer loves to watch her boys play baseball and, in the off-season, they enjoy deep sea fishing and snow skiing as a family. 

Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion

Marissa is Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) at Charter Communications, a leading U.S. broadband connectivity and cable operator, and is responsible for the company’s Diversity & Inclusion communications strategy and programs. Her focus is on both fulfillment of Charter’s D&I goals and demonstrating how the company’s commitment and initiatives in this area make it a better company for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities it serves. Marissa also oversees Charter’s D&I community and professional development relationships. 

Marissa joined Charter in 2018, after spending over 15 years with GE Capital, the financial services division of GE. Her most recent role at the company was as Head of Internal Communications as GE executed one of the largest corporate reorganizations and divestitures of its kind. Before that, Marissa was Head of Corporate Communications for GE Capital, Americas, which provided equipment and inventory financing as well as restructuring capital to companies in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While in this post, she oversaw executive communications, media, events, employee communications and corporate citizenship. Previously, Marissa had corporate communications responsibility for predecessor businesses, GE Capital Solutions and GE Commercial Finance. She started at GE Capital as a Corporate Spokesperson and managed communications for Global Employer of Choice and corporate citizenship programs. During her tenure at GE Capital, she received Chairman’s awards for Leadership, Performance, Reorganization and Imagination. 

Before GE, Marissa held roles of increasing responsibility at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, an international consultancy specializing in financial services and corporate communications. She graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in Public Relations and Marketing. 

Vice President of Performance Marketing Ad Sales

Amber Landry is the Vice President of Performance Marketing Ad Sales for Hallmark Media and is based in New York.  

Landry is responsible for managing the Direct Response Ad Sales efforts for Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Hallmark Drama, and the company’s digital properties. She collaborates with Senior Management, as well as the Pricing & Inventory team on overall strategy, budget goals, and forecasting. Additionally, she works closely with the Hallmark Media Global Brand Group to develop unique marketing opportunities for advertisers, including sponsorships, integrations, and digital and social media extensions. 

Landry began her career in Hallmark Media’s Ad Sales department over two decades ago and steadily rose the ranks to lead the Performance Marketing Ad Sales team in 2009. Landry holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut, and currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two children.  

Vice President of Government Affairs and Strategic Initiatives

Alicia Matthews is the Vice President of Government Affairs and Strategic Initiatives for Comcast’s Northeast Division and has over 20 years of experience in the industry.  She oversees the development and implementation of Comcast’s rural broadband deployment policy, public private partnerships, and digital equity initiatives. In addition, Ms. Matthews manages the government affairs strategy for all competitive market activity for more than 1,400 franchises within the Northeast Division.  

Ms. Matthews serves on the Board of the New England Cable and Telecommunications Association and is a member of the New England Chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Association.  She also serves on the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. 

Prior to joining Comcast in 2007, Ms. Matthews served as Director of the Cable Television Division of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy.  She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts and her law degree from Suffolk University in Boston. She resides in Arlington, Massachusetts with her husband and two sons. 

Sr. Director of Business Intelligence

Sumedha Mungale is a dedicated Data management and Business Intelligence technology leader with a distinguished 25-year career in establishing, growing, and leading organizations across Architecture, Development, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance disciplines. Sumedha is a Sr. Director on BI Technology team at Charter and leads dynamic teams with confidence and versatility. 

Sumedha has a verifiable track record of success and delivering results in partnering with business owners and management to innovate and help companies to achieve their goals using effective Business intelligence and enterprise software solutions, data and analytics. 

Sumedha has delivered a next-generation Data warehouse for Charter and implements data solutions to measure key company performance metrics. Sumedha is able to create and maintain a large, motivated team collaborating to focus on the big picture. She also maintains a hands-on approach to understand and steer the team to create a positive outcome. Sumedha is also able to quick understand and grasp the nuances and technicalities of a complex data environment, understanding both business and technology aspects. 

Sumedha has designed and built the Enterprise Data warehouse and Customer Timeline suite of products and is responsible for its increased adoption and growth, her focus is on innovation and modernization of technology. These products will better serve the business and show ways to improve our business processes and put the spotlight on the Customer Experience.  

Sumedha is a respected leader. Her leadership style is being focused on accountability, transparency and visibility using data to drive to the strategic direction. She has graduated Women’s leadership and WICT-Rising Leaders Program. She has been on the experts panel and on the planning committee for Tech It Out . She has been Employee of the year and has received numerous achievement and recognition awards in her career. 

She has lived and worked in 3 different countries and has an advantage to balancing people, process and technologies to innovate, influence and push forward towards success in this global marketplace. 

Sr. Director of Archives & Data Governance

Sr. Director Archives & Global Data Governance  

Sarah Nix is an experienced Data Management professional with over 20 years in the entertainment industry. She leads two groups at Paramount Global, Library & Archive Services for the Viacom brands and Data Governance company-wide. Sarah manages a team of 27 data professionals and an archive of over two million physical and digital assets as well as the metadata for those materials. Sarah prides herself in her team’s excellent customer service and accuracy of information for their clients.  

She serves as one of the New York co-chairs for Paramount Global’s employee resource group, Women+, designed to create a network rooted in mentorship, education, programming and philanthropic endeavors for women and their allies. During her tenure with Women+ she has been a strong advocate for community service and outreach, leading direct service initiatives with Safe Horizon, Grace Institute, Family-to-Family and Good Sheppard Services.  

Sarah holds a B.S. in Communications from Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications, where she is proud to represent the community as a member of their Alumni Advisory Board of Directors. She also sits on the board for EIDR (The Entertainment Identifier Registry).  

Sarah is a graduate of The WICT Network Rising Leaders Program (Ocean’s 12) and excited to join Class 48 of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute. In her free time, she enjoys theater, films, concerts and travel. She has a personal goal of visiting all 50 states by 50 with only 2 left on her list.   

Vice President of Sales

I graduated from the University of Arkansas, with a BA in Business, minoring in Finance & Pre-Medicine. Since joining Paramount in 2018, I have held multiple sales roles with P&L accountability across theatrical, catalog, and partner categories consistently achieving goals set jointly by myself and management. In my current role, I lead Domestic physical sales for Walmart, Target, and Best Buy North American sales team, working closely with the customer to build sustainable performance for the business, while also being an advocate for innovation.

Vice President of Pay, Policy, and Engagement

Jamie Faith Roff is the Vice President of Pay, Policy, and Engagement at Comcast with 27 years of experience.   

Jamie is responsible for Cross-Journey engagement, Cross-Channel governance, and deployment; Prepaid and Internet Essentials policy and operations; Xfinity Mobile and care convergence strategy and execution; National policy standardization efforts; Pay Journey strategy and execution; Customer Experience engagement for the Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer. 

Jamie’s mission is to optimize financial, operational, and experiential outcomes through cross functional leadership, journey enablement, and customer experience engagement, collaborating across the business to deliver seamless, frictionless experiences, and improve business efficiency. 

Most recently Jamie lead policy standardization efforts supporting the creation of a universal CX team, unifying care activities, functions, and operations, creating a cohesive national operating unit.  

Jamie served as the Customer Experience lead for the COVID-19 response to customer delinquency, providing payment plans and payment flexibility to over 600K customers. She also served as the Customer Experience lead for the national billing system conversion and standardization project, converting over 10 million customers from the Amdocs billing platform to the CSG billing platform.  

Jamie resides in New Jersey with her husband Shane and is the mother of twins Morgan and Marcus. Outside of work, Jamie is a fitness enthusiast, training in Muay Thai, Cardio Kickboxing, Weight-Training, enjoying mud runs and physical fitness competitions.  

Creative Executive

Seidman is the former SVP, Current Programs at Paramount Global.  She has oversight of “The Talk” on CBS in a dual role as executive for both the studio and network. Seidman joined CBS Entertainment in July 2012 as Director, Daytime Programs. Prior to joining CBS, she was a producer on the CBS series “Medium” for its seven-season run, alongside Oscar Award-winning film producer and mentor, Ronald L. Schwary. Seidman launched her television career as a temp for J.J. Abrams on the series “Felicity” where she was quickly promoted to writer’s assistant and then script coordinator that same year.   

A graduate of Temple University, she received the school’s highest honor, The Lew Klein Excellence in Media Award in 2016. Seidman was also inducted into Temple University’s Hall of Fame that same year. 

Vice President Financial Reporting and Treasurer

Anne Tran serves as VP, Financial Reporting & Treasurer at Cable One, Inc. She is a seasoned financial executive and certified public accountant with over 20 years of diversified industry experience. She currently has oversight over Cable One’s Financial Reporting, Tax, Credit and Collections and Treasury operations, focusing on technical accounting, SEC reporting, SOX 404 compliance, audit management, system conversions, treasury operations, capital market transactions as well as acquisitions and divestitures. Prior to Cable One, she was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers and subsequently served in roles with increasing responsibilities at various public companies within the aerospace, financial services, waste management, restaurant and semiconductor industries.

Anne received her undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona and currently resides in sunny Phoenix, Arizona where the weather is absolutely gorgeous from November through May. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading and hanging out with friends and family. She has been known to frequently leverage stress as an excuse to support her shoe shopping habits.

Vice President of Business Development, Content Distribution

Amrei Wolfschuetz serves as Vice President of Business Development, Content Distribution at NBCUniversal. Amrei is responsible for the monetization and multi-platform distribution of NBCUniversal’s portfolio of broadcast stations, cable networks and regional sports networks, direct-to-consumer service, Peacock, and FAST channels to the company’s distribution partners including Cox, Tubi and Roku in the U.S., as well as Canada and the Caribbean territories. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Amrei held roles at Comcast and Liberty Media. In 2022, she moved from New York City to Santa Monica and is excited to explore Los Angeles and all it has to offer. Amrei joined the Board of Directors at the LA Sports Council in 2023 and is thrilled to support its mission to create positive impact in the Los Angeles region by utilizing the inclusive power of the LA sports ecosystem through year-round innovative strategies and programs. Amrei is a graduate of the Westdeutsche Akademie für Kommunikation and is originally from Berlin, Germany.  

Executive Director of Program Management

Regan is the Executive Director of the Comcast RISE program, a philanthropic initiative within Comcast to support, enable and elevate small businesses. She is responsible for the awareness, adoption and distribution of technology enhancements, financial grants and marketing resources tied to supporting thousands of small businesses nationwide. 

Regan is an influential and passionate leader with more than 20 years of marketing and technology expertise across multiple industries. She prides herself on having the “fire in the belly” to always envision what is possible, not just what is. 

She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and holds a BS in Marketing from The College of New Jersey, and an MBA in Information Technology from American University. Regan is a sought-after speaker on technology, DE&I, personal branding and career advancement, and she was honored as a “Woman of Achievement” by the Philadelphia Tribune. She serves on the board of the Yleana Leadership Foundation, a non-profit focused on decreasing the education, wealth and opportunity gap for students of color.  

Regan lives in Media, PA and her passions include international travel, and mentoring our youth. She is a firm believer in the motto: “They will be what they can see”.