2018 Annual Report way to Adaptive Spirit being the best networking event in our industry. The good news is Joe will continue as a board A MESSAGE FROM THE member helping guide the organization in the future. He is handing over the co-chair reins to Rich DiGeronimo, EVP BOARD CHAIRPERSON Product & Strategy at Charter. Rich has been a sponsorship co-chair for two years, continuing to help our organization evolve as the industry evolves. Rich’s priority as event committee co-chair is to make sure we provide value to In what world does 60, plus 1,193, plus $1.4 million equal our sponsors while maximizing our support of the U.S. 35? In the Adaptive Spirit world, it does! We believe our Paralympics Ski and Snowboard Team. world is a special one; and the generous support of our 60 sponsors, 1,193 attendees and $1.4 million helped turned We are already off to a great start for next year’s event. the dreams of our amazing Team USA athletes into 35 We have commitments from 38 sponsor companies, and Winter Paralympic medals in PyeongChang. Quite a feat, our new event committee co-chairs will keep the quality don’t you agree? standards high. We welcome new Athlete Partner Program co-chairs Kevin Hord, VP Purchasing Operations at Charter, We all love coming to Adaptive Spirit; but when it falls during and Greg Riker, SVP America Sales at Metrological. We also a Paralympic year, we’re in for a treat. All profits raised go welcome our new Sponsor Committee co-chairs: Roger directly to the U.S. Paralympics Ski and Snowboard Team, Seiken, SVP Programming at WOW!, Jennifer Yohe-Wagner, and these funds allow the team to successfully compete SVP Procurement at Comcast, and Craig Heiting, EVP around the world throughout the season. Those who made Sales at Vubiquity. Be on the lookout for their call! the team turned in incredible performances, and Team USA had the strongest results in history at the Winter Paralympic Once more, we thank the sponsors and industry members Games. Our team was responsible for 35 of the 36 medals, for their continued support of Adaptive Spirit. Be sure to which made Team USA the overall medal count winner for mark your calendars for the 24th Annual Event, which runs these games. April 4 to 7, 2019, in Vail.
Your support of Adaptive Spirit has a direct impact on the Steve Raymond success of the team every year. But our efforts really came Board Chair, Adaptive Spirit to fruition at this year’s games. This was evident in the Nordic and Biathlon team results, where funding from an Adaptive Spirit initiative enhanced their amazing, inherent talent. More about this initiative can be viewed later in this report. For the first time, this year at the awards banquet we had a professional host. Special thanks go to NBCUniversal for the attendance of Carolyn Manno, NBCU studio host of the Paralympic Games, who did a tremendous job of co-hosting the banquet.
Adaptive Spirit also serves as the premier networking and business-relationship-building organization in the telecommunications industry. We build access to knowledge sharing, collaboration and networking opportunities at Adaptive Spirit events with industry activities such as Thursday’s Education Panel, Friday’s Brain Steve Raymond Rich DiGeronimo Trust Breakfast, and B2B Après Ski in Vail. The Education Panel continues to be a highlight of the event and the Brain Trust Breakfast brings top decision-makers and innovators together in an intimate environment.
And a final note to say thanks to my co-chair since 2000, Joe Rooney. Joe has a passion for supporting our athletes, and his keen marketing insights and creativity have led the
2 $104,586. These funds are used to STATEMENT OF support the APP (administered by FINANCIAL POSITION FINANCIAL No Excuses Unlimited) and benefit the team’s athletes on an individual June 30, 2018 OVERVIEW basis. Due to the Paralympic team (in thousands, unaudited) size this year, the Adaptive Spirit board approved a donation of $140,000 Assets to No Excuses Unlimited to provide Cash and Cash FINANCIAL SUMMARY incremental dollars to the program. In Equivalents $569.1 In the organization’s seventh year as a addition, the Hotel Talisa contributed Schwab $229.6 stand-alone entity, we continue to serve $1,400 to APP. as a great networking and educational One part of Adaptive Spirit’s financial Promotional Assets $1.6 resource for the telecommunications plan is to maintain an investment $800.3 industry. The 23rd Annual Event account creating a “safety net” in the generated gross revenue of $1.4 million. event that an additional team donation After paying event expenses, the board is needed or unexpected expenses approved a donation of $500,000 are incurred. In 2016, the board to the U.S. Olympic Committee to chose to relocate its investment funds benefit the U.S. Paralympics Ski and to Charles Schwab Corporation to Snowboard Team for its 2018-2019 take advantage of lower investment season. Additional donations for expenses and a more closely special initiatives for the team may be managed approach. At the end approved during the upcoming fiscal of the fiscal year, due to a more $782,000 year based on requests and needs. favorable market and lower expenses, the managed-asset portfolio value $732,000 During the event, the silent auction, increased 6.8%. Box O’ Money raffle and other Athlete Partner Program (APP) funding efforts brought in a gross amount of $627,000 $601,770 $600,000
DONATIONS TO THE U.S. $540,000 $520,689 $506,171
PARALYMPICS SKI TEAM $500,000 $500,000 $463,400 $455,469 $414,010 $410,000 $365,595 $350,000 $ 327, 29 5 $310,000 $290,000 $268,400 $171,600 $130,000 $100,000 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
3 STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 (in thousands, unaudited)
Revenue Sources Sources of Funds 2018 Annual Event $1,404.8
Membership Dues $49.2
Investment Account $13.9 Educational Events $5.0 “Adaptive Spirit was Other $1.4 so awesome. I can’t 2018 Annual Event $1,474.3 wait for next year. $1,404,762 (95.3%) The networking and Membership dues Expenses $49,200 (3.3%) people are fabulous— Investment account a great crowd!!” 2018 Annual Event $674.8 $13,866 (0.9%) Organization $9.7 Educational event $5,000 (0.3%) $684.5 Other $1,396 (0.2%)
Charitable Donations
Athlete Partner Program $146.9
Empire State Games $4.0
U.S. Paralympics $ 627.0 Use of $777.9 Funds “We have sponsored for many years, and Profit from with each passing operations $11.9 year, we get more and more hooked In-kind services value received $104.8 on the event.” Charitable donations $777,851 (53.2%) 2018 Annual Event $671,427 (45.9%) Organization $9,691 (0.7%) Educational event $3,339 (0.2%)
4 2017–2018 YEAR IN REVIEW
ADAPTIVE SPIRIT RECEIVES 23RD ANNUAL EVENT TOP OF THE HILL AWARD An annual networking and educational experience hosted by Adaptive Spirit, this three-day event brings together On the evening of October 14, 2017, in Vail, telecom industry executives and their families from all over Colorado, Adaptive Spirit was recognized with the country. It is widely recognized as one of the industry’s the prestigious “Top of the Hill” Award from the top-ranked networking opportunities. Thanks to industry Colorado Snowsports Hall of support, this annual event brings Adaptive Spirit members Fame. This award is given to together to continue our mission to expand and build up institutions or entities who make the telecommunications business. All funds remaining after outstanding contributions expenses are donated to a charitable organization. In 2018, to the development of Adaptive Spirit once again chose the U.S. Paralympics National snow sports in Colorado. A Ski Team as the recipient of the majority of those funds. The significant accomplishment for 23rd Annual Event hosted 1,193 registrants and 140 industry Adaptive Spirit, it was an honor companies were represented. to be recognized at an event boasting more than 400 attendees, including a Education Panel veritable “who’s who” of individuals who define Hitting its stride, the Annual Event kicked off with a keynote Colorado’s remarkable ski and snowboard history. speech and educational panel focusing on advancements SUPPORT FOR THE EMPIRE STATE and new innovations in adaptability products in the telecommunications industry. Taking place on Thursday GAMES afternoon, the session The Empire State began with an industry Games hosts update and keynote address numerous adaptive by Marwan Fawaz, CEO of snow-sport cross Nest. Marwan was joined athletes. The by panel moderator Greg games also host Riker, SVP America Sales the Development at Metrological; Mic Locker, Nordic Ski Managing Director at Camp, where Deloitte; and Fraser Stirling, regional athletes, SVP Devices & AI Systems development at Comcast, for a discussion athletes and on the advancement national team of artificial intelligence. members have the opportunity to train together. Sponsored by Deloitte and co-hosted by the Rocky Mountain At the recommendation of the board, Adaptive Cable Association, the informative discussion expanded upon AI Spirit provided crucial stop-gap support to platforms being created to anticipate situations, not just to react fill in their athlete support funds. During this using predictive capabilities. The telecom industry is perfect for fiscal year, Adaptive Spirit granted $4,000 in AI technology, with millions of users, thousands of elements and funding toward the Paralympics. This request an assortment of technical and business parameters. In addition was brought to our attention through the efforts to the business uses, AI technology has increasingly become a of Howard Horowitz, president of Horowitz new favorite among those needing specialized devices due to Research (the official research partner of disabilities. While AI technology is still fairly new, great potential Adaptive Spirit) and a member of the Empire exists. Having industry professionals on-hand who work on the State Games committee. cutting edge of AI technology helped to drive a Q&A session
5 that shed light on this emerging Brain Trust aspect of technology. Breakfast The Brain Trust Breakfast B2B Après Ski is a hit with attendees CSG hosted the perfect way to due to its unique premise: productively wind down after a not a panel in a large busy day with the B2B Après Ski. venue but an intimate This agenda activity provided an space where attendees excellent opportunity to mingle with have the opportunity to event attendees and network in a connect with the host casual environment. In the past few in their room. Adaptive years, the B2B event has become a Spirit members are able mainstay of Adaptive Spirit, putting to ask questions to top decision-makers or industry innovators and share operators and vendors together with ideas in an informal setting. This year’s hosts were Fraser Stirling, SVP Devices consultants, marketers and content & AI Systems, Comcast; Jeff Binder, EVP Home & Entertainment, T-Mobile providers, all of whom head to this US; Colleen Langner, SVP Marketing Operations, Cox; and Aamir Hussain, event for expanded networking EVP & CTO, CenturyLink. This year, a room was hosted by Team USA where opportunities. coaches shared their views on the outstanding Paralympic Game results.
2018 SPONSORS
The Annual Event would not be possible without the generous support of our outstanding sponsor partners—many of whom return year after year. Please join us in thanking the following sponsors for their support, which is the fundamental reason for the success of Adaptive Spirit. PLATINUM SILVER BRONZE ﹥﹥ Akamai ﹥﹥ CBS / Showtime ﹥﹥ Accedo ﹥﹥ NESN ﹥﹥ ARRIS ﹥﹥ Crown Media Family ﹥﹥ Adobe ﹥﹥ Oracle ﹥﹥ Charter Networks ﹥﹥ Airgain ﹥﹥ Ovation ﹥﹥ Cisco ﹥﹥ CSG ﹥﹥ Alticast ﹥﹥ Precision Optical ﹥﹥ Cox ﹥﹥ Dell EMC ﹥﹥ Amdocs Transceivers Inc. ﹥﹥ Ericsson ﹥﹥ Discovery ﹥﹥ Arista ﹥﹥ Sand Cherry Associates ﹥﹥ HBO Communications ﹥﹥ beIN SPORTS ﹥﹥ Stingray Digital ﹥﹥ Humax USA ﹥﹥ FCB Chicago ﹥﹥ CAS Group ﹥﹥ Universal Electronics ﹥﹥ NBCUniversal ﹥﹥ Fox Networks Group ﹥﹥ Ciena ﹥﹥ Univision ﹥﹥ Hewlett Packard Enterprise ﹥﹥ Concurrent ﹥﹥ Zuora GOLD ﹥﹥ Horowitz Research ﹥﹥ Dun & Bradstreet ﹥﹥ AMC ﹥﹥ IWCO Direct ﹥﹥ Espial ﹥﹥ Assurant ﹥﹥ Netcracker ﹥﹥ EYEMG ﹥﹥ Deluxe Distribution ﹥﹥ NETSCOUT ﹥﹥ Hitron Technologies ﹥﹥ Fujitsu Network ﹥﹥ Neustar ﹥﹥ Huawei Communications ﹥﹥ Nokia ﹥﹥ Infinera ﹥﹥ S&D Marketing | ﹥﹥ Sagemcom ﹥﹥ Initiative Advertising ﹥﹥ Slalom ﹥﹥ Integra Optics ﹥﹥ Technicolor ﹥﹥ Vubiquity ﹥﹥ Myhren Media
6 PARALYMPICS SPECIAL INITIATIVE FUNDING
Team USA blazed through the Winter the development of carbon-fiber of their hard work. Adaptive Spirit Paralympic Games at PyeongChang Nordic sit-ski frames. Created with funded the majority of the cost to bringing home 35 of the 36 total USA an extremely unique design and develop and manufacture these skis. medals. Due primarily to the highly- customized for each athlete, the Results seem obvious when one trained, hard-working athletes, this frames are incredibly light and strong, considers Team USA placed seventh success was in no doubt bolstered helping Nordic athletes to win 15 in Torino, advanced to fifth-place by Adaptive Spirit financial support. medals at the Games, spotlighting finish in 2010 in Vancouver, third-place This was especially apparent in their amazing talent and the results finish in 2014 in Sochi to a first-place finish in PyeongChang with the aforementioned 35 medals.
In addition to the $500,000 donation, Adaptive Spirit created the financial ability for the U.S. Paralympics to complete $127,000 in special initiatives.
Alpine and Snowboard Paralympic Games Training Site: Sites were established in South Korea for athletes to train prior and during the 2018 Games. The goal was enhanced training time and athlete focus with funding covering hill space, lodging and transportation. It allowed athletes to get on snow, get over jetlag, get acclimated and focus on the upcoming competitions more quickly.
Snowboard World Cup Finals: With financial assistance from Adaptive Spirit, the team hosted a World Cup. They partnered with the DEW Tour, the biggest snowboard competition in North America. This partnership created interest and promoted the sport prior to the Paralympics. Funding covered event cost, team participation and housing.
Snowboard Prosthetics: Funding for this initiative began during the 2016-2017 fiscal year building a relationship with the snowboard team’s prosthetic manufacturer to supply competition prosthetics. The funds requested were used to purchase the equipment for the athletes.
Nordic Sit Ski Innovation: This originally super-secret project began during the 2015-2016 fiscal year. In order to maintain the competitive edge against other countries, funding was granted with the goal of achieving innovations in design including strength, lightweight materials and aerodynamic properties. This multi-faceted project provided benefits for the 2018 Games but the long term goal is to gain podium potential for developing athletes. By continuously updating the design and structure of the frames, the hope is to use this as an advantage at all future games.
In 2011, the Paralympic team budget was more than The significant investment made by $700,000. In 2016, thanks to the support of Adaptive Spirit, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) invested Adaptive Spirit sponsors and donors nearly $2.1 million in direct athlete and program support, who attend the Annual Event allow camp and competition travel, training support, technology, U.S. Paralympics to significantly elite-athlete health insurance and hosting international competitions. In 2017, Adaptive Spirit donors invested increase funding to direct athlete almost $150,000 in the Adaptive Spirit Paralympic Ski grants, sports medicine support, Endowment. The fund started with the initial $860,000 and technology, including the Adaptive Spirit donation in 2013. The USOC goal, through private donor fundraising, is to match this original development of a carbon-fiber donation. Thanks to the generosity of more than 40 private sit-ski. Without this incredible donors, the USOC expects to match that amount in 2018. generosity, Team USA could not The generosity of Adaptive Spirit supporters allows team have reached their dreams of being members to pursue excellence now and support the dreams of Paralympic hopefuls in the future. number one in the world! —Charlie Huebner, Vice President, Paralympic Development, U.S. Olympic Committee ABOUT ADAPTIVE SPIRIT
The focus of Adaptive Spirit remains education, recognition, information steadfast: We aim to unite members and networking opportunities for with resources that enhance the distribution companies, content business outcome, stimulate providers and others who supply innovative networking opportunities products and services to the industry. resulting in growth and success of the telecommunications industry, and share best practices with ADAPTIVE SPIRIT’S ADAPTIVE SPIRIT our members. Also important to Adaptive Spirit is to provide the GOALS MEMBERSHIP telecommunications industry with a • Unite members with vendors An Adaptive Spirit membership way to give back to the community and resources that enhance creates: through the organization’s venerable the outcome of their 1. Access to knowledge Annual Event. business dealings. sharing, collaboration and Adaptive Spirit is a not-for-profit • Stimulate innovative networking opportunities at trade association with a focus on networking opportunities Adaptive Spirit events. building business relationships and that result in the growth 2. Connections to distributors, effective networking practices in and success of the suppliers, vendors and the telecommunications industry. telecommunications industry. other telecommunications Through initiatives that center on industry professionals via • Share best industry education and networking, Adaptive the members-only directory. practices with our members. Spirit champions the strength of 3. Member-only access to business relationships with the goal Adaptive Spirit research. of creating a more profitable industry. 4. Access to member-only To that end, Adaptive Spirit provides events. Membership is open to any individual engaged in the telecommunications industry, “We find the event to be agreat way to network including multi-system with our customers in a relaxed atmosphere.” operators, independent system operators, direct broadcast satellite companies, incumbent local-exchange carriers, electric utilities or municipally owned cable systems programmers, and suppliers of equipment or services to the industry. Honorary memberships may be conferred by the board of directors upon any person who, in the opinion of the board, has contributed to the success of Adaptive Spirit and/or the well- being of the industry.
9 EVENT COMMITTEE
Each year, the Annual Nomi Bergman, Anne Marie Hukriede, Event depends on a Silent Auction Co-Chairperson Marketing and Race Co-Chairperson talented and diverse Advance, Senior Executive S&D Marketing | Advertising, base of professionals VP, Client Services Paula Birth, B2B Chairperson from telecommunication CSG, Group VP, Business Services Kevin Jardine, Alpine Team Liaison industries to create our Paralympic Alpine Ski Team, Patty Bullington, annual meeting. Beyond High-Performance Director already-demanding Silent Auction Co-Chairperson day jobs, the following Charter, Senior Director, Marketing Ken Kraft, Sponsorship Co-Chairperson individuals volunteer their Susan Burgstiner, Social Chairperson time and talents to make Marketing On Demand, President Cox Business, SVP, Marketing & the event a success. An Sales Ops Colette Carey, Publicity Chairperson experienced and virtually AXS TV, VP, Marketing Operations Molly McCaskill, connected group from Silent Auction Co-Chairperson a variety of disciplines, Alex D’Addio, Video Chairperson S&D Marketing | Advertising, this committee spent D’Addio Productions Manager, Client Services untold hours during the Rich DiGeronimo, Brad Parobek, Race Co-Chairperson year to make the event a Sponsorship Co-Chairperson Nokia, VP, MSO Sales remarkable weekend. This Charter, EVP, Product & Strategy is a hard-working group, Steve Raymond, John Farra, Nordic Team Liaison not just a list of names Event Committee Co-Chairperson Paralympic Nordic Ski Team, and titles! High-Performance Director Joe Rooney, An extra-big thank-you Event Committee Co-Chairperson Deborah Flippo, for their work goes Communications Chairperson Maria Rothschild, to retiring committee Vubiquity, VP, Sales Distribution Industry Content Chairperson members Nomi Bergman, Comcast, Executive Director, TPX Bill Futera, Steve Havey, Bill Futera, Athlete Partner Program Co-Chairperson Todd Stewart, Nancy Heffernan and Sponsorship Co-Chairperson Ken Kraft. Their collective Steve Havey, TAS Media energy and time helped Athlete Partner Program Co-Chairperson create great events in Lori Wood, Volunteer Chairperson Nancy Heffernan, previous years. Comcast, Marcom Manager Sponsorship Co-Chairperson
10 ADAPTIVE SPIRIT MEMBER COMPANIES
Adaptive Spirit’s membership continues to grow and pull from a wide variety of industry segments, including operators, programmers and suppliers. Here is a sample of the companies that understand the value of supporting Adaptive Spirit.
﹥﹥ Accedo ﹥﹥ DISH ﹥﹥ Shaw ﹥﹥ Accenture ﹥﹥ Dun & Bradstreet Communications ﹥﹥ Adobe ﹥﹥ Ericsson ﹥﹥ Showtime The industry activities ﹥﹥ Airgain ﹥﹥ Espial ﹥﹥ Slalom at the event create ﹥﹥ Akamai ﹥﹥ FCB Chicago ﹥﹥ Sling TV ﹥﹥ Alticast ﹥﹥ Fox Networks ﹥﹥ Stingray Digital high value for ﹥﹥ Altice USA ﹥﹥ Fujitsu ﹥﹥ Technicolor attendees. 89% of the ﹥﹥ AMC Networks ﹥﹥ HBO ﹥﹥ Trace3 survey respondents ﹥﹥ Amdocs ﹥﹥ Hewlett Packard ﹥﹥ Universal Electronics gave the Brain Trust ﹥ ﹥﹥ Arista Enterprise ﹥ Verizon FIOS Breakfast the highest ﹥ ﹥﹥ Hitron Technologies ﹥﹥ Viacom Media ﹥ ARRIS rating for networking ﹥﹥ Assurant ﹥﹥ Horowitz Research Networks ﹥ and business ﹥﹥ Ballard Spahr ﹥﹥ Huawei ﹥ Vubiquity ﹥ opportunities.* ﹥﹥ beIN SPORTS ﹥﹥ Humax ﹥ World Wide Technology ﹥﹥ Bell Canada ﹥﹥ Infinera *Source: 2018 Attendee Survey ﹥ ﹥﹥ WOW! ﹥﹥ Broadcom ﹥ Initiative conducted by Horowitz ﹥﹥ Zuora ﹥﹥ CableLabs ﹥﹥ INSP Research, the official research provider for Adaptive Spirit ﹥﹥ CAS Group ﹥﹥ Integra Optics ﹥﹥ CBS ﹥﹥ Liberty Global ﹥﹥ Century Link ﹥﹥ Mediamorph ﹥﹥ Charter ﹥﹥ Metrological ﹥﹥ Ciena ﹥﹥ NBCUniversal ﹥﹥ Cisco ﹥﹥ NESN ﹥﹥ Comcast | Comcast ﹥﹥ Netcracker Technology Solutions ﹥﹥ NETSCOUT ﹥﹥ Concurrent ﹥﹥ Neustar ﹥﹥ Convergys ﹥﹥ Nokia ﹥﹥ Cox | Cox Business ﹥﹥ Oracle ﹥﹥ Crown Media ﹥﹥ Ovation ﹥﹥ CSG ﹥﹥ Precision Optical ﹥﹥ Dell Technologies Transceivers ﹥﹥ Deloitte ﹥﹥ S&D Marketing | ﹥﹥ Deluxe Distribution Advertising ﹥ ﹥﹥ Discovery ﹥ Sagemcom Communications ﹥﹥ Sand Cherry Associates
11 ADAPTIVE SPIRIT ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP
Steve Raymond, Chairperson TV. Her nonprofit experience includes partnerships. She served as president As recent VP Affiliate Relations co-chair for Cable Positive Denver and of Bright House Networks until its at AT&T Sports Networks, Steve president of the Virginia Tech Denver 2016 merger with Charter and Time lives in the Denver metro area. He Alumni Chapter. Deborah currently Warner Cable. One of the original was responsible for implementing serves on Virginia Tech’s National founders of Bright House Networks, affiliate promotions, agreements and Alumni Board. She has served as the it grew to become the sixth largest distribution for the regional sports communications chair of the event U.S. cable operator. Nomi serves on networks. Previously, Steve spent committee since 2001. boards including Visteon Corporation, 25 years in affiliate sales at the Walt 1010data, The Cable Center and Amos Smith, Treasurer Disney Company and was SVP Mediamorph. In addition, she is a Amos is VP Operations at T-Mobile National Accounts for Disney and board member for One Revolution, Home & Entertainment. In the cable ESPN Networks. Steve won numerous as well as a member of the FCC industry for over 20 years, he was GVP awards for his volunteer work in the Technological Advisory Council. Her Tech Ops, Care & Payment Services adaptive skiing arena such as the real moments of brightness derive and SVP/CFO residential business at CTAM Chairman’s Award and ESPN from her role as a dedicated wife to Time Warner Cable. Prior to joining Volunteer of the Year in 2003. He her husband and proud, loving mother Time Warner Cable in 2002, he spent served on the board of directors for of three wonderful daughters. seven years at AT&T Broadband the National Sports Center for the (formerly TCI) in financial positions. Tim Gropp, Director Disabled in Winter Park, Colorado. Prior to finance positions, Amos A 37-year veteran of the Steve was named “Chef de Mission” at was a registered professional civil telecommunications industry, Tim the 2010 Winter Paralympics. engineer in Southern California. He leads the Canadian Cable Sales Deborah Flippo, Secretary has a B.S. in civil engineering from the Team for ARRIS Group, Inc. He is Deborah has more than 20 years University of Colorado and an M.B.A. responsible for managing ARRIS of experience in the industry. with an emphasis in finance from the sales throughout the region. Tim Currently, she is VP Affiliate Sales and University of Kansas. joined ARRIS in 2007 as a result of Distribution at Vubiquity, the leading the C-COR acquisition. Previously, Nomi Bergman, Director global provider of premium content he was with Southwestern Bell, AT&T Nomi is a senior executive at services and technical solutions. and Lucent Technologies. Tim has a Advance and focuses on corporate Formerly, she held senior executive B.A. from the University of Texas and development and strategic positions at iN DEMAND and Request is active in SCTE. He was recently
12 inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers. 1999, he is race co-chair and a board Pete Wisowaty, Director And speaking of pioneers, Tim is member. Brad is passionate about Pete is EVP Sales and Marketing for considered an Adaptive Spirit pioneer mentoring young adults interested in Nominum which was acquired by having attended the event beginning in business and technical sales roles Akamai in late 2017. Pete is a telecom 1997 and almost every year since then. and is an avid golfer, conservationist industry veteran with over 30 years and outdoorsman. Brad resides in of sales, sales management and Mike Hayashi, Director the Denver metro area with his wife business development experience. Since Mike’s retirement from Time Sandra, and two daughters. Prior to Nominum, he was VP Strategic Warner Cable in 2015, he has served Sales and Business Development for on the board of Espial. Mike is also Jay Rolls, Director Grand Central Communications. He an industry advisor and partner with Jay is SVP and Chief Technology also held senior level sales and sales Jinsei2.0. He is a recognized Technical Officer at Charter Communications. management positions at several early Award Emmy recipient and inventor/ He and his team have responsibility for stage companies including WhereNet co-inventor on 16 U.S. patents. Prior to advanced engineering & architecture (Zebra), Pluris, ZeitNet (Cabletron) and his 22 years at Time Warner, Mike held across all lines of business. Previously, Kalpana (Cisco). Early in his career various positions at Scientific-Atlanta Jay was at Cox Communications for while working and living in Denver, and started his career at Pioneer 13 years; at Pacific Broadband where he worked with service providers, Communications as staff engineer for he was VP of Business Development; including AT&T and RBOC’s, and Time Warner Cable’s QUBE project. and, two years as VP of Network with cable pioneers such as Daniels Engineering at Excite@Home. Jay Doug Moore, Director Communications and TCI. Pete holds a spent nine years in Germany with Doug serves as EVP, COO and board B.S. in business administration with an Alcatel and BBN Communications of director member of Fujitsu Network emphasis in marketing from San Diego (now part of Level 3) and began his Communications Inc. He oversees the State University. career working in the U.S. intelligence company’s optical, wireless, software community. He received a B.S. Tom Wlodkowski, Director and services business lines. Doug in electrical engineering from the Tom is Vice President of Accessibility has held a variety of positions in sales, University of Virginia and an M.S. at Comcast. In this role, he is marketing, development, manufacturing in systems management from the responsible for developing and and engineering. He received his B.S University of Southern California. executing the company’s strategic in mechanical engineering from the plan focused on the usability of University of Arizona and his M.B.A. Joe Rooney, Director Comcast’s products and services by from Arizona State University. Doug Joe Rooney is a cable marketer. people with adaptive needs, as well is a passionate supporter of STEM Previously, he was CMO for Layer3 as pursuing opportunities to further education and the growth of the digital TV and responsible for the company’s enrich the customer experience for economy. He is a board member for customer acquisition and marketing that community. Throughout his iCode, Asociar LLC, Tech Titans and strategy. Joe spent 29 years at career, Tom has been a pioneer in the Telecommunications Industry Cox Communications achieving the the accessibility field. Blind himself, Association. As an avid outdoorsman, position of CMO. Joe paved the way he has been a champion for people he relishes all summer and winter for innovative marketing concepts with disabilities, working to improve sports. Doug especially enjoys his work such as the original triple-play bundle. usability of mainstream Internet, as an Adaptive Spirit board member. He has been recognized with cable’s mobile, broadcast and cable television highest marketing honor as the 2004 Brad Parobek, Director technology. He began working in recipient of the NCTA Vanguard Award Brad is a 35-year veteran in the accessibility and tech in the early for Marketing. Joe is event co-chair of telecom industry and currently serves 1990s at public radio and TV station Adaptive Spirit, the best networking as VP of MSO Sales for Nokia USA. WGBH in Boston. event in the industry and leading Brad has worked for Disney Channel, fundraiser for the U.S. Paralympics Ken Tolle, Legal Advisor Bravo, Encore/STARZ!, Amdocs, Ski and Snowboard Team. He is on President and Senior Advisor, Launch Huawei and CSG. He is also a seed the advisory board for Stay-Focused, Pad Media Advisors investor in BT&O Consulting, a data a SCUBA-diving and self-discovery and analytics consulting company. Susan Burgstiner, Administrator mentoring program for mobility- Involved with Adaptive Spirit since President, Marketing On Demand, Inc. challenged teens.
13 NO EXCUSES UNLIMITED
Becoming a top-flight Paralympic speak at company meetings where competitor is an increasingly they inspire employees. expensive endeavor. To assist in No Excuses Unlimited also this challenge, Adaptive Spirit has administers the Jack Benedick created a funding opportunity Memorial Fund, which provides known as the Athlete Partner funding for the Jack Benedick Program (APP). The APP is a much- Leadership Award and Victory needed source—funding Incentive Program. The equipment, training and board and advisers of prosthetic care—that No Excuses Unlimited our athletes count include longtime on year after year. In supporters, Adaptive order to administer Spirit event committee and maximize the members and former annual contributions team members. No to Adaptive Spirit, Excuses Unlimited is a we partner with No 501(c)(3) organization and Excuses Unlimited meets the public-support for the APP to collect tests of IRS Standards and distribute the tax- Section 509(a)(1). More information deductible donations made by our about No Excuses Unlimited, sponsors and participants. Through including a year-round secure the work of the APP committee, online donation process, is available Adaptive Spirit also holds additional at NoExcusesUnlimited.org. You fundraising events outside of the can also email our APP co-chairs, Annual Event. Unique opportunities Kevin Hord (VP Purchasing Ops, also exist for companies to help Charter) and Greg Riker (SVP individual athletes through a America Sales, Metrological). relationship that may include Visit the Event Committee page sponsor-branding opportunities, at AdaptiveSpirit.com for their in which the athlete wears that contact information. sponsor’s logo or is booked to
79% of respondents gave the event overall 4/5 ratings on a 5-point poor-to-excellent scale regarding the networking/relationship-building value employees get from being at the Adaptive Spirit Annual Event.*
*Source: 2018 Attendee Survey conducted by Horowitz Research, the official research provider for Adaptive Spirit WHO ATTENDS THE ANNUAL EVENT?*
LOOKING FORWARD
As Adaptive Sprit looks to its 24th year, the committee and board members continue to build on prior experience successes. Changes and consolidations within the telecommunications industry have not dampened the wide-ranging support for the event, nor has it had any effect on the attendance year after year. In order to continue receiving robust support, Adaptive Spirit’s Annual Event will build on the investigation and promotion of adaptability products in the telecom industry. It will Cable Operator/MSO 31% look to expand outreach to the Town of Vail for possible expansion of our message into the local community— Programmer/Network 18% especially since we have called Vail home for as long as Hardware Provider 16% the event has been in existence. Adaptive Spirit also looks Other 15% to expand our sponsorship outreach to other fields of tech Marketing/Consulting/PR 12% and industry beyond the telecommunications industries. Telco/Satellite 4% Fortunately, the event is so well received by attendees Consumer Electronics 3% and sponsors that we are in the position to fine-tune the experience rather than going through any type of major rebuilding process. And of course, our main goal is to surpass funds raised at the previous event and continue to provide the best and most effective networking event for all of our attendees and sponsors.
92% of the 2018 attendees stated that they were very likely or likely to attend in 2019. 58% stated that they were likely or very likely to become more involved with Adaptive Spirit.*
*Source: 2018 Attendee Survey conducted by Horowitz Research, the official research provider for Adaptive Spirit
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SAVE THE DATE Adaptive Spirit’s 24th Annual Event will take place April 4–7, 2019, in Vail. We look forward to seeing everyone at this annual networking and educational event, where your company can share better business practices and learn how to build a more profitable industry. To become a sponsor or to learn more about Adaptive Spirit, visit our website at AdaptiveSpirit.com. See you on the mountain!
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