Sharri Berg, Fox Weather president and COO of news and operations at Fox Television Stations, and Judy Parnall, head of standards and industry, BBC will be the recipients of TVNewsCheck’s 12th annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards.
Berg and Parnall will receive the award during the NAB Show on Tuesday, April 26, at 6 p.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
“For 30 years, Sharri has been a remarkable leader at Fox, laying the foundations for its technology and bringing teams together across the station group,” TVNewsCheck Publisher and Co-Founder Kathy Haley of Berg said.
“That work culminated in last year’s launch of Fox Weather, the embodiment of a 21st-century television channel that redefines what a ‘channel’ itself is — digital in its DNA, streaming and linear in its distribution, deeply granular in how it iterates weather information to the viewer. It could not have been built without Sharri’s driving leadership.”
Furthermore, the two women will also join this year’s other Women in Technology honorees in a webinar on April 13 at 1 p.m. ET discussing the industry’s technology future and the challenges extending out before it.
“The distinguished career Judy built heading media innovation at the BBC’s highly respected R&D unit established her as a technology futurist and leader,” Haley said of Parnall. “Her election to the chairmanship of the EBU Technical Committee, where she is leading development of the work plan and establishing the strategic programs and interest communities driving media technology development, has expanded her influence to 56 countries, more than 1,200 radio and TV stations, and more than 500 digital services.
“Both Sharri and Judy serve as role models to women, all over the world, who aspire to the highest levels of technology management,” Haley said.
This is the list of previous Women in Technology Leadership Award honorees:
- Marcy Lefkovitz, VP, technology and workflow strategy, The Walt Disney Co.
- Barbara Lange, former executive director of SMPTE
- Lisa Pedrogo, VP of engineering and strategic initiatives, WarnerMedia
- Tish Graham, former VP of broadcast technology at ABC Owned Television Stations
- Diane Tryneski, now board member and advisor to several digital technology companies
- Glodina Connan-Lostanlen, now chief sales officer, Imagine Communications
- Michelle Munson, now founder, Eluvio
- Renu Thomas, then EVP of media operations, technology, and IT at Disney ABC Television Group
- Darcy Antonellis, now executive advisor, Amdocs
- Wendy Aylsworth, now CEO, Walden Pond
- Cindy Hutter-Cavell, senior engineer and practice manager, Cavell Mertz & Associates
- Andrea Berry, now EVP operations & technology, Telemundo Enterprises, and LATAM
