Lou Occhicone

As CABLEready’s Senior Vice President of Operations, Lou Occhicone is responsible for the daily operations of the company, overseeing the growing sales services staff, management of all contracts, original program development, and coordination of convention activities. As well, Mr. Occhicone oversees the operations of CABLEready Productions and spearheaded the launch of the company in August 2008. He is also a Managing Partner in CableU, a cable programming research company that on an ongoing basis monitors, analyzes and issues in-depth reports on network performance and programming trends. In 2008 he was honored by being named to Fairfield County Business Journal’s Fairfield County’s Top 40 under 40.

Prior to joining CABLEready as Director of Program Operations in fall 2000, Mr. Occhicone had been Manager of Program Acquisition for Speedvision Network, where he was in charge of negotiations for the acquisition of licensed, barter and time-buy programs. He also developed, designed and implemented strategies for domestic and international program schedules. In addition, while working for Speedvision, Mr. Occhicone established procedural ground rules for use during the network’s live telecasts. He joined Speedvision in early 1996.

His past experience also includes work with ESPN and Wirz & Associates, a marketing and public relations firm based in Milford, CT. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Management/Marketing and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the University of Connecticut.