Pacific Telecommunications Council Announces its PTC Awards 2023 Recipients

Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) celebrated outstanding achievements in the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry, to improve the ability of people and firms in the Pacific region, at last night’s PTC Awards 2023 event, which was held during PTC’23 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

“Now in its fifth year, the PTC Awards program continues to excel from the number of entries received to the high caliber work being done in the industry,” commented Joe Weinman, founder and principal, XFORMA and chair of the PTC Awards 2023 Committee. “It was incredible to celebrate the individual and organizational achievements and particularly those that support the non-profit mission of PTC, to advance the ethical development and use of ICT for collaboration, knowledge, and outreach.”

The PTC Awards 2023 recipients are:

Networking and Network-Centric Solutions Awards

• Outstanding Satellite or Submarine Company: Southern Cross Cable Network
• Outstanding Wireline and/or Wireless Company: TELUS
• Outstanding Applications Company: Swarmio Media
• Outstanding Cloud/Edge Company: AWS
• Outstanding Data Center/Colo/Interconnection Company: Equinix
• Outstanding Innovation or Transformation: CITIC Telecom CPC
• Outstanding Start-up: AdaniConneX

PTC Vision and Mission Award

• Outstanding Support for PTC’s Vision and Mission Award: Pacific Dataport

Leadership Awards

• Outstanding C-level Executive: Joe Zhu, CEO, Zenlayer
• Outstanding Female Executive: Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt
• Outstanding Diversity and Inclusion Champion: Phillip Marangella, Chief
• Marketing & Product Officer, EdgeConneX
• Outstanding Up-and-Coming Leader: Nicky Peshwani, Vice President, Bankai Group

In addition, William “Bill” Barney, chairman of Asian Century Equity, received the Richard J. Barber PTC Distinguished Service Award for his exceptional service to PTC for more than 25 years.