IWCS Staff

David Kiddoo
CEO/Director
IWCS

Michelle Melsop
Sr. Operations Manager
IWCS

Becky Dippel
Marketing Manager
IWCS
Board of Directors

Dr. Scott H. Wasserman (Chair)
Dow
Collegeville, PA, USA

Ben Waite (Vice-Chair)
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
New Bedford, MA, USA

Jeff Barker (Treasurer)
Prysmian Group
Claremont, NC, USA

Larry Bleich
CommScope
Claremont, NC, USA

David Braun
Teknor Apex Company
Pawtucket, RI, USA

Eric Bulington
UL Solutions
Northbrook, IL, USA

Robert Canny
Harbour Industries
Shelburne, VT, USA

Professor Alistair Duffy
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom

Robert Elkins
Corning Optical Communications LLC
Charlotte, NC, USA

Dave Fallowfield
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Steven A. Galan
NY, USA

Charles Glew
Cable Components Group
Pawcatuck, CT, USA

Trent Hayes
CommScope, Inc.
Claremont, NC, USA

Kazunori Katayama
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
Ibaraki, Japan

Markus F. Kemmler
Kemmler Consulting GmbH
Denkendorf, Germany

Mike Patel
Teknor Apex Company
Pawtucket, RI, USA

Kerry Smith
Nabaltec
Chattanooga, TN, USA

Jermaine Taylor
OFS, a Furukawa Company
Norcross, GA, USA

Robert A. Wessels, Jr. (Chair Emeritus)
2023 Symposium Committee Officers

Dr. Bianca Hydutsky (Committee Chair)
The Chemours Company
Wilmington, DE, USA

Michael Gurreri (Committee Vice-Chair)
CommScope, Inc.
Middletown, PA, USA

Bulent Kose (Committee 2nd Vice-Chair)
Panduit Corp.
Tinley Park, IL, USA
2023 Symposium Committee Members

Yoshihiro Arashitani
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
ICHIHARA, CHIBA, Japan

Dr. C. Bertil Arvidsson
Arvidsson Fiber Optics AB
Hudiksvall, Sweden

Dmitriy Bodik
UL Solutions
Melville, NY, USA

Paul Brigandi
Dow
Collegeville, PA, USA

Kenneth Cornelison
Wire & Cable Technology Resources
Cincinnati, OH, USA

John DiMeglio
LAPP Inc.
Florham Park, NJ, USA

Hélio Durigan
Furukawa Electric LatAm S.A.
Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Mehdi Emad
Solvay Specialty Polymers
West Deptford, NJ, USA

Ed Fenton
WCMA, Daikin America
Orangeburg, NY, USA

Eduardo Garza
Hitachi Cable America, Inc.
Manchester, NH, USA

Michael J. Gimblet
Corning Optical Communications LLC
Hickory, NC, USA

Dr. Svend Hopland
Hopland MarinInstal
Oslo, Norway

Wayne Kachmar
Technical Horsepower Consulting LLC
North Bennington, VT, USA

Robert LaRocca
UL Solutions
Melville, NY, USA

Eric Lawrence
Leviton Manufacturing Co.
New Holland, PA, USA

Xavier Mann
Mueller Water Products
Atlanta, GA, USA

Michael McNulty
Wire & Cable Technology Int'l / WCISA®
Akron, OH, USA

Jon Mello
Teknor Apex Company
Pawcatuck, CT, USA

Douglas A. Parker
FO Connect Consulting
Camarillo, CA, USA

Dr. Brian Risch
Prysmian Group
Claremont, NC, USA

Lynne Russell
Cable Components Group
Pawcatuck, CT, USA

Thomas Schelling
J.M. Huber Corporation
Fairmount, GA, USA

Matteo Solari
S.I.C.C.E.T S.r.l.
Brescia, Italy

Marie-Ange Vatin
Covestro
Neuilly sur Seine, France

Eric Whitham
OFS, a Furukawa Company
Carrollton, GA, USA

Daniel Winkler
E.G.O. North America, Inc.
Newnan, GA, USA

Sharon Wrobel
WESCO
Glenview, IL, USA

Zhuang (Frank) Xiong
Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company
Wuhan, P.R. China