The Fiber Broadband Association announced various awards recipients at Fiber Connect 2024 to “those making a difference in the fiber broadband industry”. The awards include the Star Award, the Photon Award, the Gene Scott Education Award, the Chairman’s Award, and the yearly Fiber Forward AMPLIFY Awards.
Both the Star and Photon Awards celebrate “outstanding contributions to the fiber broadband industry” with the awards going to Jim Baller, Senior Counsel, Keller & Heckman, LLP (Star Award), and Heather Gold, VP, External Affairs, TAK Communications (Photon Award).
This year the Learning Alliance received the Gene Scott Award. The award recognizes an individual, community, or institution that has “significantly impacted the advancement of education in the fiber industry”.
For 2024, Mark Boxer was presented with the Chairman’s Award, which honors a person or company that has “shown tremendous effort to promote, educate, or accelerate FTTH”.
For the first time ever, the FBA launched and presented its Fiber Forward AMPLIFY Awards which recognize people, companies, and innovations that advance and strengthen the fiber broadband industry. These awards consist of seven categories, including the Fiber Under Forty Award (winner being Ashley Church, General Manager, GFiber), Women Changing Fiber for Good Award (Cheri Beranek, President * Chief Executive Officer, Clearfield, Inc., was the winner), and the Advocacy Allstar Award (going to Nicole Cottle, Director of Government Relations, UTOPIA Fiber). The other awards and their respective recipients are the: Community Impact Award (Lanora, Kan., and Nex-Tech, LLC.), Product Innovation Award (3-GIS, by SSP Innovations, SSP Vision), Taking Fiber Further Award (Greenlight Networks), and Constellation Award (Calix and Tombigbee Fiber).
