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99 | TURNER TROIKA
Jim McCaffrey
Title: EVP Operations
and Strategy &
Chief Strategy Officer,
Turner Broadcasting
System
Years in Cable: 16
Education: Bachelor's Cornell
University; MBA New York University,
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Best Advice in 7 Words Or Less:
You must speak to be heard.
Dan Darling
Title: Chief Information Officer/ SVP
Technology, Production & Operations,
Turner Broadcasting System
Years in Cable: 26
Education: B.S. in Biology University
of Akron
Best Advice in 7 Words Or Less:
Live each day like it's your last.
Trish Jones
Title: SVP/Chief Emerging Technology
Officer, Turner Broadcasting System
Years in Cable: 11
100 | THE ENGINEER
Mark Dzuban
Title: President/CEO, SCTE
Number of Years in Cable: 43
Education: Degree in Applied Science,
AT&T School of Business
Best Advice: Be Bold, work hard,
build character.
Why Him? Tireless Dzuban has
been pushing the industry's energy
management agenda and other key
educational initiatives for engineers.
The executive engineering program
he launched with the Tuck School
at Dartmouth has been a huge
success, and the recent Vanguard
winner plans to develop additional
educational programs next year as he
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Education: BBA Spring Hill College;
Juris Doctor, Georgetown University
Best Advice in 7 Words Or Less:
Say please and thank you.
Chocolate chips
Favorite Starbucks order: Dunkin
Donuts
Why Them? Turner comrades McCaffrey,
Jones and Darling are a tireless
technology trio driving the company's
explosive digital business growth. As
head of the company's technology,
operations and strategy, McCaffrey
devoted 2011 to integrating emerging
digital technology that supports
Turner's network content on new platforms.
Jones created Turner's Audience
& Media-Platform Technologies (AMPT)
group, charged with developing/executing
technology and data solutions
for such digital business initiatives as
TV Everywhere and 80-plus mobile
device products. And Darling oversees
all network operations, technology services,
studios and broadcast engineering
functions. In 2011, his leadership
was pivotal in creating an operational
infrastructure for new delivery systems
and products.
Year Ahead:
Turner's trio of
McCaffrey, Jones and Darling will
refashions SCTE into an engineeringfocused
group with increased
outreach to CTO and vendor advisers.
Add to that a bar-raising Cable-Tec
Expo 2011-and we call that a
banner year.
Standard procedure: Dzuban
wants to develop the industry's
first standards for software-defined
architectures that can reduce operational
energy consumption next year.
Year Ahead:
SCTE's work continues
to be critical for new service
deployment and customer retention.
Ergo, highly valued.
My favorite meal that I can also
prepare myself: Hotdog on a stick
Favorite restaurant: The WOK,
December 2011
When I look at my cable set-top
box, I can't help but think that: It
needs a makeover.
What I admire most about Millennials:
Their technology proficiency.
Number of companies I've
worked for since college: 4
devote 2012 to continuing their
large-scale technology recruiting
effort and establishing Turner as an
industry digital technology leader.
Dan Darling
Favorite meal I can also prepare
myself: Tacos
What I admire most about Millennials:
High regard for work/life
balance
Favorite vacation spot: Turks and
Caicos
Trish Jones
Favorite meal I can also prepare
myself: Eggplant parmesan
The one topping that should
never be put on a hot dog:
Salem, New Hampshire
Favorite " going out " town: New
York!!!
The one thing I tell my kids
about success in life: Apply yourself
with passion, build character,
respect others.
Favorite coffee order at Starbucks:
Dunkin Donuts
Bands I would actually go see
live: The Eagles
Favorite vacation spot: Hatteras
Village, NC
My favorite iPad app: Xfinity TV
while I am surf fishing on Island
Beach State Park in New Jersey.
This incident from my youth
taught me an important lesson:
When Mike Armstrong, CEO of
AT&T, asked me to do an investigacablefaxmag.com
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tion,
and one of his staff told me
not to present the findings and
took it off the agenda. I sent the
findings to Mike directly to make
sure he knew I finished the task.
The Lesson: Think through the
consequences of my actions and
be prepared! ◆
Jim McCaffrey
Biggest cable innovation in the
past year: TV Everywhere
Favorite business book: The
Medici Effect, Frans Johansson
Burning question for Siri on
my iPhone 4S: Where's the
perfect wave? ◆
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