ST. LOUIS, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) announced today that broadband
industry veteran Jay A. Rolls will
join Charter in August as Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer. He brings more than 25 years of experience in
engineering, technology architecture and business development to
Charter.
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Leading Charter's engineering and architecture teams, Mr. Rolls
will also serve as the company's primary liaison to industry
organizations, including research and development consortium
CableLabs.
Mr. Rolls comes to Charter from Cox Communications, where he
most recently served as Senior Vice President, Technology,
responsible for technology and architectures across all of their
communications and entertainment product lines.
"Charter is making significant investments in our infrastructure
to improve reliability, offer more advanced products and enhance
the overall experience for our customers," said Charter Executive
Vice President, Technology and President, Commercial Services Don
Detampel. "We're very pleased to have an industry veteran of Jay's
caliber lead these efforts. He has a natural affinity for
collaboration that will help ensure our product, technology and
operations teams work closely together to exceed our customers'
expectations."
Launching his career working on communications cryptography for
the U.S. intelligence community, Mr. Rolls later worked with BBN
Communications and Alcatel Telekom, spending nearly a decade in
Germany. He has also held senior
leadership positions with Pacific Broadband and Excite@Home. Mr.
Rolls graduated from the University of
Virginia with a degree in electrical engineering.
Mr. Rolls received the Vanguard Award for Science and Technology
in 2009 and is a member of the University of
Virginia Electrical & Computer Engineering's Advisory
Board.
About Charter
Charter (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a leading broadband communications
company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full
range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter
TV® video entertainment programming, Charter Internet® access, and
Charter Phone®. Charter Business® similarly provides scalable,
tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to
business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet
access, data networking, business telephone, video and music
entertainment services, and wireless backhaul. Charter's
advertising sales and production services are sold under the
Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found
at charter.com.
SOURCE Charter Communications, Inc.