Barry R. Elson is Recipient of CTAM’s One of a Kind Award

(Alexandria, VA – July 14, 2004) Barry Elson, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Telewest Communications, has been selected as the distinguished recipient of the 2004 CTAM One of a Kind Award. Elson, a CTAM Chairman in 1994 and a member of the CTAM Board of Directors for five years, is being recognized for his strategic vision and inclusive style of leadership of CTAM in the early 1990s. Elson helped form a strategic plan that put CTAM on a path to success, including creating the CTAM Educational Foundation and popular member services, including the CTAM Pulse and a number of online products.

Elson was named Chairman last fall of Telewest Broadband, the second largest cable company in the United Kingdom. He was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer of Telewest Communications in February 2004. Elson has been a senior executive in the broadband-telephony-video industry for 18 years, almost 14 of those with Cox Communications in a series of senior line operating positions culminating in Executive Vice President of Operations. From 1997 to 2000, he was also President of Conectiv Enterprises and Executive Vice President of Conectiv, a diversifying Middle Atlantic States power company. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of Urban Media, a VC-backed entrepreneurial start up in the business sector of telecommunications.

The CTAM One of a Kind Award was created in the memory of the late Roy Mehlman and is given periodically by former CTAM Board members (the “Classic TAMers”) to an industry executive who best embodies Mehlman’s willingness to give of himself so that others in the business might benefit. Elson generously shared his time and ideas to build CTAM, particularly working with CTAM chapter leaders to develop their skills. He was a strong supporter of WICT, helping create the initial case studies for their management conference and working on their annual educational conferences for five years.

“Barry much enjoys helping people become all they can be,” said Char Beales, CTAM President and CEO.

Elson will be recognized at the CTAM Summit, Full Throttle – scheduled for July 18-21, 2004 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. For more information on cable’s premier educational marketing and management conference, please click here. For complimentary press registration, please click here, complete the form and fax it back to CTAM at 703.684.1167.

More information about the One of a Kind Award

CTAM, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, is dedicated to advancing consumer and business-to-business marketing excellence, the mastery of new technologies, and strategic learning in cable, broadband and other emerging media. As the industry's primary professional membership organization, CTAM provides marketing education, information and networking opportunities to its members, through conferences, courses, specialized publications, Web sites, consumer research and an active network of local chapters. The CTAM Educational Foundation and its centerpiece initiative, CTAM's Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School, are designed to help senior industry executives manage more effectively in a market-driven, consumer-focused environment.

Contact: Phyllis Dickerson-Johnson, CTAM, Director, Communications and Media Relations, 703.837.6575, phyllis@ctam.com