Ed Marchetti of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has been named the SCTE/ISBE Member of the Year, and David Fellows of Layer3 TV and Dr. Rickey Luke of Cable TV of East Alabama are the newest inductees into the SCTE/ISBE Hall of Fame.
The Society honored all three professionals as part of the Annual Awards Luncheon at Cable-Tec Expo 2017 in Denver.
Marchetti is the senior vice president of technical operations for Comcast. A member of the SCTE since 1994, Marchetti distinguished himself over the past year as an advocate for the Society and its training mission, engaging Comcast's engineering and technical operations with his nationwide ambassador program. He demonstrated the value of SCTE/ISBE technical training, built governance and partnership with the ambassadors, and promoted the benefits of devoted involvement with the SCTE/ISBE.
New Hall of Famer Fellows, who is co-founder and CTO of Layer3 TV, was instrumental in bringing fiber-optics and digital technology into the satellite and cable industry. This was while serving as president of the transmission systems business division for Scientific-Atlanta from 1987 to 1992. Fellows also received the SCTE/ISBE Excellence in Standards Award at this year's luncheon.
Luke, who is CTO and vice president, engineering, at Cable TV of East Alabama, is an industry veteran of nearly 45 years. Luke was actively involved in deploying fiber architecture while the technology was still in the early stages of development. He gained the reputation for embracing new ideas and working to find better, more economical ways to deliver products and services to the end user.
