Future Announces 2021 Tech Leadership Awards

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WASHINGTON—Future U.S. has announced the recipients of the first ever Tech Leadership Product Awards, recognizing individual and technology leadership.

Sponsored by Multichannel News, TV Tech and Broadcasting + Cable, the Tech Leadership Awards celebrate the best technology executives from broadcast networks, TV stations, pay-TV providers, streaming services and programming producers, plus the companies and products surrounding them. Award winners were announced today, March 23, at the virtual Technology Leadership Summit are profiled in a digital ebook available soon, as well as upcoming print issues and were announced today at the virtual Technology Leadership Summit.

The Tech Leadership Awards go to executives who have made notable contributions to improve the way their companies and the industry has used or deployed technology that have led the TV, digital, streaming and multichannel industries into new directions.

Here are this year’s recipients:

Greig Fraser, Director of Photography/Producer
William Hayes, Director of Engineering and Technology, Iowa PBS
Lucinda (Cindy) Hutter Cavell, Vice President, Cavell, Mertz & Associates
Brett Jenkins, Executive VP and CTO, Nexstar Media Group
Yvette Kanouff, Partner and CTO, JC2 Ventures
Jaya Kolhatkar, Executive VP of Data, Disney Direct to Consumer
Barbara Lange, Executive Director, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Doug Lung, VP Broadcast Engineering, NBC Owned Stations
Phil McKinney, President and CEO, CableLabs
Phil Wiser, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer, ViacomCBS
Stephanie Mitchko-Beale, Executive VP & Chief Technology Charter Communications

Entertainment categories including ATSC 3.0 technologies, Lighting technologies, Audio technologies, Camera technologies and Cloud-based services & IP technologies.

Here is the list of winners: