Pragash Pillai, Vice President of Strategic Engineering

As Vice President of Strategic Engineering Mr. Pillai plays an integral role in the strategic technology planning and assessment for service convergence of platforms including voice, video, data and wireless.

Prior to joining Bresnan, he was the Vice President of Advanced Engineering - Digital Video for Charter Communications, Inc. In that post, his responsibilities included digital video network architectures, system engineering, system integration and technology assessments. He led a team of engineers who were responsible for the end-to-end development of products and system architecture for video platforms reaching 5.9 million customers across Charter's 37-state territory. During his tenure, he gained extensive experience in a wide variety of new technology developments, testing and integration, deployments and operations.

He holds a Masters Degree in Applied Science in Telecommunications from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri. In addition, he completed graduate work in Telecommunications Management at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Pillai is a graduate of the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program at Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He also attended an Executive Program in Strategy and Innovation at Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Mr. Pillai has received numerous professional honors and industry accolades. He was the recipient of the B&C - SMPTE 2007 Next Generation Engineering Leadership Award. In 2006 he received NAMIC's "Next Generation Leader" Award. In 2004, he was the recipient of the CED Pacesetter Award for architecting and launching the first wide scale all-digital compression and DPI systems. He has also been named among Multichannel News 2004 "Cable's Next Generation of Innovators" and received SCTE's 2003 "Young Engineer Award" and IEEE's 2002 "Young Engineer Award" for St. Louis. Mr. Pillai has co-authored multiple industry articles on digital video technology and operations and has participated in multiple industry technical panels and sessions.