Cablevision's Lightpath Powers Up to Provide Full Communications Solutions for New York Market Commercial Customers.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com BETHPAGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 Company Announces New Executive Structure Designed to Deliver Lightpath's Superior Communications Values Across Market-wide Product/Service Lines Lightpath, Cablevision Systems Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVC See CSC. ) integrated business communications provider, today unveiled an expanded executive team to speed the deployment of the company's products and services for commercial customers throughout the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. (NYMA NYMA New York Military Academy ). This Lightpath executive team will report to Eric Tveter, Cablevision's senior vice president for business telecommunications services, who is responsible for leading Lightpath's growth. "This expansion of the Lightpath team continues the recent reorganization of Cablevision's management team under Joe Azznara, the company's NYMA president," said Mr. Tveter. "Our new organization enables Lightpath to advance its core strategies of targeting resources on New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Connecticut and New Jersey, and focusing on key market segments like hospitals, government, education, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , and wholesale services. It will allow us to maximize the competitive advantages of Cablevision's more than 10,000 fiber route miles in the New York area, and deliver on our objective to be the regions' premier provider of data, Internet, voice and video services." Lightpath's restructured executive suite is focused on ensuring unprecedented reliability and is aligned around six business operations: business product management; sales; wholesale services and developing markets; customer service; service management; and network management. The executive management appointments and their divisions operations are: Kevin Curran - vice president, business product management. Mr. Curran is responsible for strategy, planning, product development and overall revenue performance for Lightpath. Having joined Cablevision in 1998, he began his telecommunications career with AT&T in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. just prior to the divestiture of the Bell system in 1984. In 1997 he left AT&T as vice president, local services for the Northeastern United States to join Broadview Networks, an upstart competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) ) where he served as vice president, sales and marketing. Phil DeCabia - vice president, sales. Mr. DeCabia is responsible for developing a sales driven regional business telecommunications organization throughout the Tri-State area, with a focus on strong direct sales capabilities and excellent pre and post sales support. A long-time employee of Cablevision Systems Corporation, he joined the company in 1983 as one of the first employees of Rainbow Advertising Sales Company (RASCO). He worked in New York City representing all cable services for local ad sales, News 12 and regional sports. Mr. DeCabia worked at RASCO through 1995, leaving as senior vice president/director of advertising sales for SportsChannel, to join the Lightpath organization. George Lakestream - vice president, wholesale services and developing markets. Mr. Lakestream is responsible primarily for developing powerful wholesale service business with wireless carriers, Internet and application service providers, other CLEC's, long distance carriers and other telecommunications service companies driven by the fiber rich network in the Tri-State area. Having recently consulted on start-ups and new market entries for such communications and technology giants as Bell Atlantic, NYNEX NYNEX New York-New England & X for the Unknown (Telephone Company) NYNEX New York Network Exchange , Worldcom and USRobotics, Mr. Lakestream brings a wealth of experience to his role. Prior to joining Lightpath, he was acting president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for National Fiber Networks as well as various executive positions at USTeleCenters and NYNEX. Maggie Melluso - vice president, customer service. A 25-year veteran of Cablevision, Ms. Melluso is responsible for providing premier customer service. She joined Lightpath in 1993 as a member of the core management team and has contributed significantly to the company's growth through the implementation of a customer call center and a number of initiatives to ensure quality order management, customer care, billing, credit and collection operations. Ralph Eck - vice president, service management. Mr. Eck is responsible for the service operations including installation, field service, maintenance, dispatch, and the technical services call center on a 7- by 24-hour per day basis. He joined Lightpath from Metromedia International Telecommunications Inc., where he was senior director of operations, overseeing various joint ventures throughout the world. His advanced telecommunications general management experience includes various key appointments at AT&T, New York Telephone The New York Telephone Company (NYTel) was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. Predecessor companies The Telephone Company of New York , Brooks Fiber, and a joint venture of United International Holdings. Vito Caraguilo - vice president, telephony network management. Mr. Caraguilo is responsible for the Switching, Network Engineering and HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. Telephony for NYMA, including the Westchester project and the network operation center. He joined Cablevision in 1996 as director of corporate engineering. Prior he was director of engineering, Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. New York City, where he worked for 17 years. Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Maese - vice president, network planning and interconnection. Mr. Maese is responsible for the development of the strategic planning and augmentation of Cablevision's network necessary to support the full family of offered products. Having joined Cablevision in 1994 as director, regulatory planning, he has also served as Cablevision's director, interconnection and carrier relations, responsible for the negotiations and agreements with Local Exchange Carriers and vendors. Joe Caruso - vice president, business planning & finance. Mr. Caruso is responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing budgets, forecasts as well as short and long term business planning and business analysis. He joined Lightpath in 1994 and has contributed to the company's expansion into new regions and products. He joined Cablevision's New Business Development group in March 1990 and previously held finance positions with CIBC CIBC Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC Centres Interinstitutionnels de Bilan de Compétences CIBC Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control (Trinidad) CIBC Commercial International Brokerage Company and Paramount Communications. Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, provides integrated business communications services over a state-of-the-art network to the New York metropolitan area business market. Lightpath customers benefit from the experience and resources of Cablevision, one of the regions leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. With 1999 revenue of $70 million and more than 53,000 access lines, Lightpath utilizes Cablevision's fiber-optic network to deliver digital service with faster transmission speeds, clearer sound quality, greater route diversity and higher dependability. Lightpath customers can rely on one provider for all their communications needs. Additional information about Lightpath is available at www.lightpath.net. Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading telecommunications and entertainment companies. The Company's cable television operations serve more than 3.4 million customers located primarily in the New York, Boston and Cleveland Metropolitan areas. Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., a 75% owned subsidiary of Cablevision, manages entertainment, news and sports programming services. Rainbow Media's assets include ownership of American Movie Classics, Bravo, The Independent Film Channel and a 50% interest in FOX Sports Net. 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