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Respected industry leader Kathleen Abernathy appointed to BAI Communications Board of Directors
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Leading global communications infrastructure provider BAI Communications (BAI) today announced Kathleen Abernathy s appointment as a non-executive director on the BAI Board of Directors, chaired by Joan Gillman.
Respected industry leader Kathleen Abernathy joins BAI Communications Board of Directors
As a leader with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, Abernathy s career highlights include appointment as a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission in 2001, after being nominated by President George W. Bush, followed by a board of directors position with Frontier Communications where she subsequently served as chief legal officer and executive vice president regulatory and government affairs. Kathleen also chairs the ISO New England Board of Directors and i
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Brian Smith as vice president, human resources and inclusion.
Smith comes to the BSO from the Enterprise Community Foundation in Washington and assumed his new duties Jan. 11.
Smith will administer HR policies, programs, procedures, and guidelines to help foster, support, and engage the BSO’s workforce in alignment with our strategic plan and its four tenets of Culture, Capital, Capacity, and Community. Smith will provide innovative leadership and management oversight to promote, champion, and sustain equity and inclusion at the BSO – developing institutional policies, practices, and programs that both increase racial literacy and cultural responsiveness among BSO employees, as well as respect, value, and respond to the needs of our greater community. He will serve as a dedicated co-chair of a staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) workgroup, working closely with other rotating staff leadership, and as a member of a recently formed DEI Committee of the Board.