Stephanie Gibbons
JAG Founding Member
Stephanie has over 25 years working and supporting local municipal access. She is a founding member of JAG and has served on the Executive board for 18 years. She has chaired multiple committees: Membership, Conference and has been a member of the External Relations, Leadership and JAG Awards committees. She has worked for Borough of Metuchen beginning as a volunteer rising to assistant station manager. She has also worked for the township of South Brunswick and free lanced for DNS Media and Cologna Productions. She has been the chair of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the ACM and a member of NATOA and in 2016 received the Ovation award.
Partners Dinner Sponsored by Switchboard
JAG realized early that we needed to partner with as many towns as possible to deal with all the obstacles that were keeping stations from reaching their potential. That concept of partners continued to be a main focus in developing JAG. This included JAG joining organizations that were battling legislative controls that would have a negative impact on community media distribution in NJ. We also recognize the need to develop relationships with vendors for assistance in building and updating our facilities. This evening key representatives responsible for JAG’s development will share their thoughts about their partnership with JAG and our future together. Thank you to our guests for their support and believing in JAG’s mission. Welcome: Bob Duthaler, President of JAG; Host: Rich Desimone, Managing Director, JAG; Guest speakers: Jesse Lerman, President/CEO, TelVue Corporation; Rudy Ellis, CEO, Switchboard, Mike Wassenaar, President & CEO, Alliance for Community Media, Paul DeStefano, Northeast Regional Sales Manager, DeSisti Lighting; Varto Keshishian, Owner, President, Varto Technologies