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John Chapman began his electronics career in high school by building an AM radio, leading him to study Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. After graduating, he worked in Silicon Valley, designing analog line and trunk cards for ROLM, and later joined Cisco in 1989.
During the early Internet era, he designed the HSSI Wide Area Network interface, significantly increasing Internet backbone speeds. In 1996, he co-founded the CMTS group at Cisco and architected several industry-first DOCSIS technologies, including uBR7246 and cBR-8. He enjoys working closely with the cable operators on driving DOCSIS to the next level and has contributed to many DOCSIS features across various versions, including the development of Distributed Access Architecture and Remote PHY.
Promoted to Cisco Fellow in 2007, he became CTO of Cable Access in 2011 and CTO of Broadband in 2020. John is a member of the SCTE Hall of Fame and the Cable TV Pioneers and was listed in CableFax as a Top 100 Power Player in 2021 and 2022. He holds over 140 patents and has published over 50 white papers.
Outside the cable industry, John is a 7th Degree Black Belt Master in Taekwondo, enjoys white water canoeing and skiing, and lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Jenn.
Nikisha Bailey is a community-driven entrepreneur, entertainment executive, and philanthropist committed to impact and change. She is the owner and operator of Win Win Coffee, Philadelphia’s first Black woman-led coffee roaster and distributor, and the first coffee brand backed by proprietary supply chain technology to create a more streamlined, transparent, and sustainable industry.
Win Win’s sourcing platform, Vianexta, was named a Top Product of 2024 by Technical.ly, and the company was listed as a Top 25 Startup to Watch in Philadelphia for 2025. Win Win was also handpicked by Goldman Sachs as a
featured vendor at its 10KSB National Summit, where over 5,000 attendees sampled the brand’s Ethiopian blend. Brand partners include PUMA, PayPal, FedEx, Black Girl Ventures, The University of Pennsylvania, Oatly, and more.
Before entering the coffee industry, Nikisha spent over a decade in the music business, serving as VP/Head of A&R at Atlantic Records, and leading A&R, marketing, and label operations across several top companies. She has been named a Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Player three years in a row (2020–2022) and was recognized on Forbes' Next 1000 list for her entrepreneurial work. In 2025, she was honored by Chief on their New Era of Leadership Awards list.
Nikisha currently serves as a Trustee for The Grammys/Recording Academy’s, is an Ambassador for the Black Music Collective (BMC), is the Chair of The Grammys Education Committee and is a founding member of Chief, a private
network for women executives. She also teaches as a Professor at Drexel University’s Westphal Media Arts & Design Program.
“Community is everything,” Nikisha affirms. “You are only as strong as the team with you. I always want to connect people and draw on the power in numbers.”
Kelly Schrieber is a cybersecurity and data privacy executive who’s spent the past two decades translating tech risk into plain English and turning chaos into compliance. She helps organizations make sense of security, privacy, and now AI, in industries ranging from finance and healthcare to manufacturing, breweries and theme parks.
Most recently, Kelly led security and privacy risk teams at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a Fortune 500 company operating in 37 countries. There, she built global programs for SOC 2, GDPR, enterprise GRC, and partnered across teams to help drive a 98% reduction in high-risk vulnerabilities.
She’s also tackled PCI compliance at Anheuser-Busch, navigating cybersecurity operations for everything from beer to roller coasters. Her toolkit includes a broad set of frameworks, like NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI, and CIS, used to meet regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, and DORA, and now includes a growing focus on the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence.
Kelly holds certifications you’ve probably heard of (CISM, CISA, CIPM) and maybe a few you haven’t (CDPSE, FLMI, PROSCI). She’s active in professional associations like ISACA, IAPP, WiCyS, FOCUS-St. Louis and InfraGard, and volunteers with CyberUp PowerUp to help inspire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
She holds a master’s degree in Atmospheric Science with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but these days she’s more concerned about cloud security than cumulonimbus clouds. Outside of work, you’ll most likely find her catching up on reading, exploring local coffee shops, and spending time with her family.
Holly is a telecommunications executive with over 19 years in the cable industry, currently serving as Vice President of Digital Marketplace at Spectrum in the video organization—the nation’s largest video provider. Her leadership spans Residential, Business, and Enterprise portfolios, with a track record of launching innovative products like Business Wi-Fi, Voice, Unified Communications, and Spectrum’s Seamless Entertainment streaming services and App Store.
A dynamic force in marketing, sales, and product strategy, Holly is known for building growth cultures, championing customer-first practices, and leading with purpose. She holds two patents in Wi-Fi and Voice technologies and is actively developing a third.
Above all, Holly is passionate about mentoring and team development, believing that when people grow, business thrives.
