Jodi Friedman
Executive Champion
Global Account Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprises
Jodi has over 20 years of experience working in various sales and business development roles in the cable industry, including IT and Cloud Based Managed Solutions, Broadband/Video/Wireless CPE and programming content distribution.
Over the years, Jodi has helped grow some of the industry’s most widely recognized brands enabling Cable Service providers to grow their business by providing best in class products and services to their customers including HPE Greenlake Cloud software and services, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 High Speed Data, Voice and Video products with various interactive Guide platforms, distribution of the Starz!/Encore Movie Channels and Courtroom Television Network (Court TV).
Currently, Jodi and her team ensure the Comcast, SKY, NBCU and other broadband and media companies are driving innovation to get to 10G and to deploy new products and services to market as quickly as possible. Jodi has helped manage Account relationships and partnerships which have accounted for as much as $1B in annual revenue and have been an integral part of the development of the industry’s next generation of solutions changing the way consumers connect to each other and to their content through the network.
Jodi has been a WICT member since she started in the cable industry. She is a previous Global WICT Network Board Member and a current Executive Champion for the WICT Network Philadelphia Chapter Board. She has held leadership positions in Philly as a Past President, Programming Chair, Tech-it-Out Chair, and Sponsorship Chair, as well as volunteering annually in the mentoring program. As a Fellow of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, Jodi is very passionate about the benefits of leadership development programs and has served as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ambassador for CommScope/ARRIS ERG’s.
Jodi is a 4x Circle of Excellence winner, a recipient of CommScope’s Strategic Win award (2019), a member of Cablefax Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Cable (2019), and recipient of WICT Philadelphia’s outstanding Communicator Award (2014).
Before entering the cable industry, Jodi worked as an attorney for a general practice firm in NYC. She received her JD from New York Law School and was admitted to the bar in NY and NJ. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics from Lehigh University.
Jodi lives in Ardmore, PA with her Poodle, Angie. She is a very proud Aunt to 4 nephews and 1 niece, Ages 30-18. Jodi is a longtime volunteer and advocate for the Big Brother/Big Sister program and continues her 15 year relationship with her Little and her entire family.