Cable Industry Leader Maggie Bellville Joins Hitachi Consulting’s Communications, Media & Entertainment Industry Executive Team

June 9, 2014 BG&A Staff
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Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd and a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, today announced that Margaret A. “Maggie” Bellville has joined Hitachi Consulting as its newest vice president and member of the U.S. Communications, Media & Entertainment Industry executive team.

In this role, Bellville will support cable operators’ new product launches, assess their M&A activities, advise on new business investments and coordinate with Hitachi for cable industry applications for its targeted, market-tested technology solutions and professional services.

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Bellville is a highly honored cable and telecommunications leader. As a former Fortune 500 COO she was recognized, among other achievements, for hiring and nurturing of some of the industry’s top executives.

“Hitachi is deeply committed to supporting the North American cable industry by providing an unmatched level of professional services and information software and hardware technologies that will ensure that cable operators deliver operational excellence and cost optimization,” said Michael McNabb, senior vice president of Hitachi Consulting. “Maggie brings a level of clarity, experience and resolve to always improve our industry. She will be addressing a range of powerful cable issues from market consolidation, business intelligence to energy savings. We couldn’t be more excited to have her on our team.”

Prior to joining Hitachi, Bellville served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Charter Communications, one of the nation’s top cable systems, where she was responsible for all company field operations, as well as marketing, programming, customer care and advertising sales.

“Hitachi Consulting has brought together a remarkable team of insightful and resourceful leaders delivering outstanding solutions that help cable operators improve their organizations,” Bellville said. “Today, our company touches the country’s top MSOs by providing exceptional management and IT consulting services, offshore product development and managed services capabilities, and offering Hitachi’s most advanced technologies so that operators can reduce their electricity consumption, and drive greater efficiencies through better business intelligence to solve many of the toughest problems facing the industry.”

In 1995 Bellville was appointed vice president of operations at Cox Communications, where she advanced to executive vice president of operations with responsibility for its three operating divisions, marketing, advertising sales, customer care, research and analysis, business services and business operations.

Bellville, an early advocate for online video streaming, also served as president and CEO of Incanta, a start-up technology-based streaming content company based in Atlanta.

She began her career in cable television in 1993 with Century Communications serving as senior vice president of that company’s largest operating division in Los Angeles. From 1986 to 1993, she held a variety of management positions with the former GTE Wireless/Contel Cellular Inc.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton with a B.A. in social science, Bellville also is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, Advanced Management Program. Bellville has received numerous professional honors and distinctions, including being named one of the “Top 10 Women in Business” in Atlanta; “Woman of the Year” by the California chapter of Women in Cable; “Woman to Watch” by the Atlanta chapter of Women in Cable; and “Woman of the Year,” a national award by Women in Cable.

She served on the executive committee and boards of directors of the California Cable Television Association; Cable Positive, Women in Cable and Telecommunications Foundation and the Television Academy Foundation. Bellville also served as an advisor to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association task force on diversity.

 

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