Insight Communications Company Inc.

Michael S. Willner co-founded Insight Communications in 1985 and is our Chief Executive Officer as well as a Director and Vice Chairman of our Board. As a young boy in Miami, Florida, Michael had a fascination with the television business at a very early age. He often rode his bicycle to the local NBC affiliate after school where the staff allowed him to help out in the studio while they produced and aired a live children's puppet show and the local news. As CEO, he is a firm believer in open, honest communication. Michael is a hands-on leader who personally ensures that employees and customers are always well informed and have input and influence over important company decisions. This commitment to open communications led to a secondary career – that of a leading man in a number of Insight television commercials in which he comfortably plays himself with a great sense of self-deprecating humor. In one notable brand-awareness campaign series, the camera follows Michael as he goes door to door to determine whether the company is meeting customers' needs. His efforts to provide extraordinary customer service find him attempting to fix a car engine, cooking chili, feeding a crying baby and washing a dog. Michael started his career in 1974 as the program director and news reporter for a small suburban New York cable system after graduating from the Boston University College of Communications. Soon after, he shifted his focus to general management and eventually became the Chief Operating Officer of Vision Cable Communications, a cable company owned by a division of Newhouse Newspapers. Michael is very active in industry affairs and today is one of cable's most effective ambassadors on Capitol Hill, testifying regularly before Congress on industry issues and impending legislation. He currently serves as Chairman of the Cable Center, has served two consecutive terms as Chairman of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the cable industry's trade organization, and currently sits on its executive committee. He also serves on the executive committee of CableLabs; on the board of directors of C-SPAN, The Cable Center, and the Walter Kaitz Foundation. Although named 2008 Executive of the Year by the industry publication Multichannel News, and having received a number of prestigious awards including the NCTA's 2004 Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership, and having been inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Cable Hall of Fame in 2008, Michael has yet to achieve his greatest goal of winning an Emmy for his leading role in Insight’'s commercials.

Daniel Mannino joined Insight as Controller in 1989, became Vice President and Controller in 1991, and was appointed Senior Vice President in 1999. He was appointed Chief Accounting Officer in 2007. Previously, Dan was employed by Vision Cable from 1983 to 1989, becoming its Controller in 1986. Mr. Mannino is a certified public accountant.

Hamid Heidary joined Insight in April 2006 as our Executive Vice President of Central Operations. He oversees all of Insight's central support operations, which encompass the areas of network operations, engineering and information technology. He is also tasked with charting the company's technical strategy and directions. A people-oriented, hands-on engineer, Hamid oversees a dynamic and cohesive Central Operations team with open lines of communication. His staff meetings are frequent, boisterous and productive. Everyone who works for him knows exactly what is expected of him or her and is provided with the tools and support necessary to get the job done. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and data networking industries, Hamid has served as COO of Iesy Hessen GmbH, a cable television operator in Hessen, Germany, and CTO of NTL:Europe, a multinational cable operator and telecommunication service provider. He has also held various executive technical and management positions with NTL UK, C-Cor Electronics, Inc. and Allen Bradley. Hamid's education includes a BSEE and MSEE from Southern Illinois University, an MBA from California Coast University and a certificate of corporate directorship from the Institute of Directors in London. Married with one son, Hamid enjoys a good book, a game of golf and an opportunity to go scuba diving. He recently has started to bike, having decided that it's easier on his knees than running.

John Abbot was named Executive Vice President of Insight Communications in February 2006. He has served as our Chief Financial Officer since he joined the company in January 2004. He focuses on all of the company's financial activities including financial reporting, treasury management, budgeting and planning and investor relations. He also oversees the negotiation and execution of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. John came to Insight from Morgan Stanley, where he was a Managing Director in the Global Media and Communications Group of the Investment Banking Division. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. John received a bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, as well as an ME in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Harrison brings a wide range of experience in the financial services industry, including his service as a Senior Executive Officer and CFO for three major bank holding companies where he planned and executed numerous mergers and acquisitions. As a Senior Executive Officer and CFO of three NYSE listed bank holding companies (Texas American Bancshares in Fort Worth, Texas, MCORP and BancTexas Group of Dallas, Texas), he provided financial management oversight, including mergers and acquisitions, and public and private financing, both domestic and international. He also served as a Director, Executive Vice President and CFO for Brock Residence Inns (now Marriott Residence Inns), which at the time was a new all-suite hotel concept. Mr. Harrison also served as a Senior Vice President and Director of Finance for its parent company, Brock Hotel Corporation, a NYSE listed company. In 1987, Mr. Harrison formed LDH & Associates, a financial and small business consulting firm specializing in management assistance to financial services industry clients which included bank holding companies, state and nationally chartered banks and savings and loans as well as newly formed companies of all types seeking funding and business plan development. Mr. Harrison has also served as a director of North Texas Motor Cars, Inc. of Addison, Texas. Mr. Harrison is a graduate of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas with a B.S.C. in Accounting, and a graduate of the SMU School of Banking. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas (Certificate & License ID #6263) and was a Registered Securities Representative having Series 7 and Series 63 licenses. Mr. Harrison has taught graduate level courses in finance and accounting at TCU and SMU.

Chris Slattery was named Executive Vice President of Operations for Insight Communications in February 2006. He oversees customer growth, customer experience, product management, programming, training and field operations. He joined the company as Senior Vice President of Sales in October 2004. Prior to joining Insight, Chris served as a Managing Director of the London operations of NTL, a multinational cable operator and telecommunication service provider. In this capacity he was responsible for sales, growth strategy, reduction of churn and customer experience for 1.5 million cable homes. During his tenure with NTL Chris held a number of different leadership positions. As Sales Director European operations in 2001, he was responsible for designing, developing and implementing customer growth strategies across NTL's then newly-acquired European assets. And, as a General Manager of NTL's United Kingdom operations in 2000, he had overall responsibility for sales and marketing, customer retention, customer care and network maintenance, as well as budget strategy, planning and implementation. Prior to 2000 Chris served in a variety of sales-related roles at the company and its predecessors.

As SVP of Field Operations at Insight (don’t let the title fool you – it’s pretty much a sales gig), Gregg Graff is immersed in “getting better.” While he occasionally finds time to work on becoming a better snow skier or wake boarder, his daily focus is directed towards improving our sales, marketing and training efforts as well as working to enhance our video product. Gregg started in the cable business in 1984 and joined Insight in August 1998. His 14 years of marketing and programming experience landed him in, of all things, two roles in operations during the subsequent five years. Finally rescued by Dinni Jain, Gregg enthusiastically returned to the marketing and product side of the business in 2003. He promptly shed the coat and tie for the familiar black uniform of the sales executive (see shirt in the accompanying photo). These days, getting better in sales is pretty much job number one, and Gregg spends much of his time focused on telesales. He can’t hang in the moguls like he once could, and he drinks a lot of water trying to jump wakes on his infrequently-used board. But, we’ve got some amazing products to talk about and a lot of customers left to win over from the competition, so his priorities are set. (Of course, Gregg can make a living selling cable products – something that ain’t gonna happen skiing or boarding.)

As our Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Jim Morgan has long worked to maximize the partnership between Insight and our employees. His understanding of the wide variety of issues that affect our people and programs comes by way of a 25-year law career in labor and employment matters. In fact, he served as our outside employment counsel since the company’s beginning in 1985. Jim believes simply that our success is best achieved by providing our employees a work environment that is open and fair. When Jim joined Insight in 2003, he and his family relocated to New York from New Orleans, where he practiced law after graduating from Tulane University in 1978. This marked somewhat of a return home – Jim and his wife Kathy live on Long Island close to where Kathy grew up. The return to the Northeast also enables Jim to spend a little more time fishing on the lakes of southern Ontario in his native Canada.

Brad Tracy is currently the Vice-President of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Insight Communications. Brad joined Insight in January 2004, having served as ICTA's Executive Director for the previous two years. Prior to joining ICTA, Brad served as Chief of Staff to the House Republican Caucus in the state legislature where he worked closely with members on both sides of the aisle. Brad also worked as Executive Director for the House Republican Campaign Committee and served as Press Secretary for William H. Hudnut III during his tenure as Mayor of Indianapolis. Brad graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations/Advertising.

John Grismore heads up our commercial services arm, Insight Business Services, which provides high-speed Internet, telephony and video to small and large businesses in our footprint. He joined Insight in April of 2008, moving from the mountains of Washington State to the rolling hills of Kentucky. John began his cable career in 1983 in Sandy, Utah working for Community Television of Utah, a TCI company. On his first sales call he found himself bidding against the other cable operator in town, Insight Communications. Back in the early ‘80s, Insight was strategically building CATV systems in the growth path of large cities. Subsequently, in the early 90’s while John was traveling throughout the country installing a business customer database in the TCI cable systems, he first saw the cable systems which today make up Insight Communications. John has led business services divisions for Rocky Mountain Telephone Company, TCI Cable, AT&T Broadband, Sprint Broadband Direct, and Charter Communications. He received an MBA from the Foster School of Business - University of Washington in 1997 and in 2004 was appointed to the Vancouver, Washington City/County Telecommunications Commission. John enjoys golf, chess, cooking and reading a good book. He has been active in scouting with his sons Grant and Gunnar, and has served as Scoutmaster. John does a lot of research, looking for new information on autism to assist him with his son Gavin’s development. He also has a grown daughter, Bri, and a young daughter Lily. Since John lives just two tenths of a mile from the Insight Louisville office, he often walks home for lunch.

Mr. Muir's focus since 1996 has been in developing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate integrated marketing campaigns and operational strategies, especially pertaining to online digital solutions. He is an accomplished web site designer and database manager.

Mr. Petty has been with the Company since 2004. He has worked in the corporate environment since 1972, and has been involved in many facets of sales and marketing management. His experience includes designing marketing plans, developing sales promotions, and the launch and sales of industry-specific, custom publications. He has designed personal marketing programs for high-production real estate agents, as well as conducting sales analyses for an international, luxury-market real estate magazine. Publications he has represented include geographic-specific, industry-specific (e.g., real estate, Spanish-language, telecommunications, air travel and B2B) and general circulation. Previous to his work in publishing, he was an international lending officer as well as an institutional securities broker and a licensed real estate associate for a commercial developer, purchasing $30 million in commercial properties. Mr. Petty received his BBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ms. Mills has been associated with the securities industry since 1981. Her experience includes owning and operating general securities broker-dealers, providing compliance consulting and investment evaluation expertise to the investment community and assisting client companies in setting up investor relations and operations departments. Prior to her entry into the securities industry, Ms. Mills worked for an independent oil and gas company as business manager and with a resort/land developer, performing feasibility studies for new business ventures as well as conducting corporate marketing research programs. She has held securities principal's licenses (in the areas of general securities, financial and operations, options and municipal securities) and has held an investment adviser representative's registration. Ms. Mills earned her A.B. degree from the University of California at Davis, majoring in criminal justice research/statistics.

John W. "Woody" Hutton joined Insight in 2000 as Vice President and General Manager of the Lexington, Kentucky system, and was promoted in 2002 to Senior Vice President, Operations. He currently oversees operations for systems in Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green and Covington, Kentucky; and Evansville, Indiana. Hutton is a seasoned cable executive, having joined the industry in 1982 with Centel Cable following his graduation from Florida State University.

Melani Griffith is our Senior Vice President, Programming and Video Services and is responsible for the management and strategy of the video product as well as negotiating all of Insight's programming deals. She has overdeveloped biceps as a result of hours of required arm-wrestling. Melani has over 14 years of marketing and programming experience in the cable industry, and has been recognized within the industry on multiple occasions for her achievements. In 2008 she was named one of Cable's Rising Stars by the industry publication Multichannel News and in 2009 received a similar recognition from the industry association, Women in Cable Telecommunications. Prior to joining Insight, Griffith worked in advertising sales at FOX Cable Networks as well as affiliate sales at AMC Networks and at Discovery Communications, Inc. She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of California at Los Angeles and a master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School. She triangulates between Montreal, Louisville and New York.

Paul Meltzer is our Senior Vice President of Product Management, and he is responsible for the continuous reinvention of our high-speed Internet and telephony products. Since his arrival in 2006, we have increased the speeds of our Insight Broadband service to become the fastest available in all the states we serve. In that same time, we have deployed a VoIP phone service across almost our entire footprint. When he’s not working, Paul can be found alternately roaming the streets of Brooklyn and the prairies of north Texas. Splitting his time between two such dissimilar terrains comes naturally to an Insight multitasker. He’s as enthused by a genuine Brooklyn bagel and a bike ride over the East River bridges as by biscuits and gravy near the courthouse and a night two-stepping in a honky tonk. Paul has spent the last decade working in the cable industry, much of it developing the Optimum Online business at Cablevision. His previous adventures included launching Digital TV for Continental Cablevision/MediaOne and developing and launching new products for divisions of General Mills and the Campbell Soup Company. He earned an MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at Wesleyan University, and a doctorate in hard knocks from the New York City subway system.

As our Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, Sandy Colony is responsible for corporate media relations, industry relations and internal communications. In this capacity she is frequently on the road visiting our cable systems in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. As an intrepid world traveler, she also visits much more remote regions of the world such as Papua New Guinea, the Dogon communities of Mali, West Africa, the steppes of Mongolia, the highlands of Uganda (to observe highland gorillas) and most recently Ethiopia. A 20-year veteran of the cable industry, Sandy joined Insight in 2004, having served in various capacities at Time Warner Cable of New York City, Food Network, Road Runner and Mystro TV. Prior to joining the cable industry, she was active in the not-for-profit sector, serving as Executive Director of NARAL in New York State. A political activist for a number of years and a die-hard feminist, Sandy has served on several charitable boards and committees. Currently she is on the board of directors for the Association of Cable Communicators and Women in Cable Telecommunications. She is a graduate of Skidmore College and has a Masters Degree in Psychology from The New School of Social Research.

Scott Schneiderman is our Senior Vice President of Operational Finance, where he is responsible for identifying opportunities to make the operations more efficient (read: make more money). He joined the company in 2004 as Vice President of Financial Planning and Strategy. While not hounding his colleagues for deeper analysis or increased cash flow, Scott is dodging trees and trying not to break any limbs during his weekend mountain biking excursions. As a misplaced Southerner, he also enjoys fine-tuning his barbeque recipes and taking advantage of the food, museums, and sporting events in the Big Apple. Scott came to Insight from a career on Wall Street. He spent time in private equity at a firm he founded, Madison Park Partners, and as a Director at The CIT Group. He also spent five years executing M&A transactions at Barclays and as an analyst at JP Morgan. Scott holds an MBA from The Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and is also a proud Tarheel, where he spent his undergraduate days.

SIDNEY R. KNAFEL has served as a director of Igene since 1982. He has also been Managing Partner of SRK Management Company, a private investment company located in New York City, since 1981 and has served as Chairman of Insight Communications, Inc. since 1985. Mr. Knafel is also currently a director of General American Investors Company, Inc. as well as a number of private companies.