Speaker Lineup

Mike Matson

SVP of Field Operations
Spectrum

Mike Matson is the Senior Vice President of Field Operations for Charter. In this role he oversees the Northeast, NYC, Mid-South, Southeast and Texas-Louisiana Regions.

With nearly four decades of industry experience dating to his early days as a Field
Technician, Matson’s career journey includes various leadership roles that have equipped him with a deep understanding of field operations, engineering and management. He has demonstrated exceptional leadership and a commitment to operational excellence.

Since 2021, Mr. Matson served as Regional Vice President for Spectrum’s Texas-Louisiana Region overseeing all regional operations, network maintenance, and construction teams with 3,300 employees serving more than 3.5 million Spectrum customers throughout the region. During his tenure in Texas, Charter executed one of its most ambitious rural expansion and market fill-in projects. By the end of 2025, Spectrum’s subsidized Rural Construction Initiative is expected to connect an FCC-estimated 133,000 homes and small businesses in Texas, requiring some 14,000 miles of new fiber.

Previously, Mike served for three years as Area Vice President for Western North Carolina, and he joined the Company in 2016 as Vice President of Regional Engineering for New York City. His career began in 1988 at Cablevision, where he started as a field technician and progressed to the role of Director of Field Engineering.

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