Clearfield Chief Cheri Beranek Takes World’s Top Honor as Female Executive of the Year
November 22 2016 - 9:17AM
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD), the specialist in fiber management
for communication service providers, announced today that its CEO,
Cheri Beranek, has been named the winner of a 2016 Gold Stevie®
Award in the Female Executive of the Year category in the 13th
annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The Stevie Awards for
Women in Business are the world’s top honors for female
entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they
run. All individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to
submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit,
large and small. The 2016 awards received entries from 31
nations and territories.
“Our success reflects our values. Listening to our customers and
collaborating to deliver solutions that solve their problems is at
the crux of the Clearfield culture,” said Cheri Beranek, CEO of
Clearfield. “Winning this award is a distinct honor and one that I
share with the entire Clearfield team as we work together to
support our customers.”
Beranek’s leadership style and the story of how she successfully
built Clearfield into a strong industry player was recently
profiled in the Light Reading Magazine article, “Clearfield CEO
Takes Fiber to the Glass Cliff.”
Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 160
professionals worldwide who participated in the judging process
this year. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,”
the awards were presented to winners on Friday, November 18, 2016,
during a dinner event attended by more than 500 people at the
Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The event was broadcast on
Livestream.
Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the
list of Stevie Award winners are available at
www.StevieAwards.com/Women.
About Clearfield, Inc.Clearfield, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CLFD) designs, manufactures and distributes fiber optic
management, protection and delivery products for communications
networks. Our “fiber to the anywhere” platform serves the unique
requirements of leading incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECS),
competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), Wireless operators,
and MSO/cable TV companies, while also catering to the broadband
needs of the utility/municipality, enterprise, data center and
military markets. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Clearfield
deploys more than a million fiber ports each year. For more
information, visit www.SeeClearfield.com.
About The Stevie Awards Stevie Awards are
conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the
German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The
International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Great
Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie
Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions
receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in
more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes
and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding
performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the
Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
Media & Analyst Contact:
Jas McDonald
Connect2 Communications, Inc. for Clearfield, Inc.
919-435-9115
jas@connect2comm.com
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