Chris Bastian

Telecom Consultant at Independent Consultant

Speaker

Chris Bastian is currently an independent consultant, and was the CTO and SVP of Engineering at SCTE, a subsidiary of CableLabs, from 2015 to 2024, where he was responsible for all areas of technology and engineering to ensure that SCTE maintained a leadership role in standardizing and operationalizing advanced technology, including the SCTE Standards Program and the SCTE Engineering Committee – as well as groundbreaking efforts such as SCTE’s Energy 2020 and Explorer programs.

Prior to joining SCTE, Chris spent 12 years with Comcast, where he served as senior director of converged regional area network engineering for the Comcast Network Engineering Group, executive director of network architecture for the Comcast Technology and Product Group and ultimately as executive director of Comcast’s Xfinity WiFi network. Previously, he had held network operations and engineering positions with RCN and Comcast Cellular Communications, and had spent 10 years in engineering and leadership capacities with the National Security Agency.

Chris holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and an M.S. in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University.