Time Warner Cable made a flurry of corporate promotions and shifted some regional operations executives late Thursday, including moving long-time New York regional executive Barry Rosenblum to head up its Texas Region.
Rosenblum was named executive vice president of Time Warner Cable's Texas Region, which has more than 1.8 million subscribers. A 29-year veteran of the operator, Rosenblum replaces Wayne Knighton, who is retiring. Rosenblum joined a predecessor of Time Warner Cable in 1979, becoming general manager of its Queens, N.Y. system in 1986.
At one point, Rosenblum was in charge of all of Time Warner's New York state operations. Last year, Rosenblum’s duties were shifted to include Time Warner’s Los Angeles system—acquired in the joint purchase with Comcast of Adelphia Communications—as well as San Diego and New York City.
Executive vice president of operations William Goetz was tapped to lead the rest of TWC’s New York state and New England operations at the time.
Rosenblum’s move to the West Coast coincided with integration problems at the Los Angeles systems. Those operations have improved substantially during his tenure.
In moving to the Texas systems, Rosenblum inherits another past trouble spot for the cable operator—the Dallas system acquired as part of the Adelphia transaction.While that system too has shown improvement over the past year, Rosenblum’s expertise will no doubt come in handy.
“Barry is a highly respected executive with an incredible track record at Time Warner Cable,” Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said in a statement. “I have every confidence that he will build upon Wayne’s success and ensure that Time Warner Cable continues to be the premier video, high-speed Internet and phone provider in Texas.”
Taking the reins from Rosenblum on the West Coast will be former Los Angeles Division president Stephen Pagano, who will become executive vice president of TWC’s newly formed West Region, comprising systems in Los Angeles, San Diego and Hawaii and serves about 2.5 million subscribers.
Finally, New York City division president Howard Szarfarc has been promoted to executive vice president and will continue to be responsible for the day-to-day operations of that 1.4 million-subscriber system.
Rosenblum, Pagano and Szarfarc will all report to Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs.
On the corporate side, TWC promoted Mike Hayashi, senior vice president of advanced engineering and subscriber technology, to executive vice president of advanced engineering, retaining responsibility for TWC’s subscriber technology operations.
Advanced technology group senior vice president Kevin Leddy has been promoted to executive vice president of technology policy and product management at that unit, continuing to oversee large projects and play a key role in long-range capital planning for technology.
Both Hayashi and Leddy will report to advanced technology group executive vice president and CTO Mike Lajoie.
In addition, advanced technology group senior vice president James Ludington has been promoted to executive vice president of national network operations and will continue to oversee testing, implementation and national operation of technology platforms delivering voice, video and data. He will report to executive vice president of technical operations Gerry Campbell.
Rounding out the promotions, James Braun was elevated to senior vice president of product management in the advanced technology group and will continue his current role of managing various bandwidth projects. Braun, who will continue to report to Leddy, will take on the added responsibility of managing a technical program coordination and communication team for the advanced technology unit, supporting multi-departmental program development efforts.
