Continental appoints Steven D. Hill senior VP for high speed data services.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996 -- Steven D. Hill, a leading executive in the new media and publishing industries, has been appointed senior vice president for High Speed Data Services by Continental Cablevision, the company announced today. Hill assumes his duties on February 1. His position will focus on bringing high speed data services to the marketplace via Continental's broadband telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. throughout its five regions encompassing 20 states. Hill joins Continental from Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers Company, where he served most recently as executive vice president for the company's Trade and Reference Division. During his first 11 years with Houghton Mifflin, he served in a variety of management positions in educational, general, reference and international publishing. Prior to rejoining Houghton Mifflin last year, Hill served as Director of Educational Programming for Delphi Internet Services, a commercial computer online service. Earlier, he founded Context Publishing, a consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in online strategies for the publishing and information industries. He also has held management positions with Altergo SoftWare Inc., and Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing & Co. Hill holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and a BA degree from Amherst College. "With Steve's wealth of experience at an outstanding company like Houghton Mifflin, and his expertise in new media services, he is just the kind of leader Continental needs as we develop and roll out a variety of new data communication services," said Continental Executive Vice President Jeff DeLorme. "We're committed to bringing the full benefits of cable technology to our customers, ranging from high-speed access to a host of information and communication services," said William T. Schleyer, 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. of Continental. "Steve Hill will help Continental cultivate relationships with sources of national and locally-based information and services, with the goal of developing our networks as important pathways for a new generation of telecommunications products." Continental Cablevision Inc., the nation's third largest broadband telecommunications company, serves more than 4.2 million subscribers in 20 states and is part owner of companies providing cable television service in Argentina, Australia and Singapore. CONTACT: Continental Cablevision Rob Stoddard, 617/854-3138 |
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