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PRESS RELEASE: Fiber Optic Center Announces Expansion of Marketing Department

Published: August 24, 2021
, Last updated: September 12, 2025

The company announced the new personnel appointment to its marketing department to support their continued growth through automation and innovation.

New Bedford, MA, USA - August 24, 2021 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces expansion of marketing department. The company announced the new personnel appointment to its marketing department to support the company’s continued growth through automation and innovation. FOC is pleased to welcome Brett Kane, as Marketing Specialist to its current industry leading marketing team.

“As a customer-centric organization, we are investing in our team to provide customers with the highest quality experiences and our trusted partners and suppliers with the greatest sustainable growth,” said Ben Waite, President and CEO, Fiber Optic Center.

Brett Kane has joined as Marketing Specialist with a focus on website development and digital analytics. Mr. Kane brings 6+ years of experience as a B2B digital marketing professional with expertise in website project management, lead generation, Google web tools and partner certification course development.

 

The FOC vision includes connecting customers to the best products, services and technologies. Mr. Kane is joining the established FOC Marketing Team of Kathleen Skelton, Director Strategic Marketing, Joni Montemagno, Marketing Promotions Director, Richard Mack, Market Analyst, and Kelly Michael Skelton, Salesforce Director, that plays a vital role in promoting the mission of Fiber Optic Center.

The personnel announcement was made by Kathleen Skelton, Director Strategic Marketing, who noted, “Fiber Optic Center, as an industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts, has a unique responsibility to drive growth for customers’ worldwide operations and the industry as a whole. FOC’s focus includes pushing the boundaries of technology, business, standards, and policy as a dedicated leader in fiber optic expertise and innovation. The investment in this team of marketing experts will have far-reaching impact for our customers, suppliers and industry. From production and automation on the cable assembly line to raw fiber making expertise to work with Wayne Kachmar and Facebook on a robot that can install fiber on traditional power lines in places like Africa, FOC’s internal teams directly impact global improvements.”

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About Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), is an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment, materials, and supplies known for helping customers make the best cable assemblies in the world for over three decades. Material property consultation is provided by technical experts for lapping film, epoxy, adhesives, optical coatings, and optical plastics during application specific material selection. Technical process expertise is offered in several key technology areas. Specialized expertise includes cable assembly line mastery, fiber broadband field installation best practices, and technical advancements in telecom, datacom, data centers, and hyperscale. Optical cable specification development includes design and quality testing. FOC's impact reaches the network physical capabilities through fiber manufacturing process expertise from preform fabrication and shaping, fiber drawing, and coating requirements for double clad fibers used for high power fiber laser applications to solution doping, vapor phase doping, rare earth chelates and halide recipe consultation. Fiber Optic Center is the preferred choice for the world’s fiber professionals as the industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts who integrate their manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into customers' worldwide operations. @FiberOpticCntr

For further information contact:
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., 23 Centre Street, New Bedford, MA 02740-6322
Toll Free in US: 800-IS-FIBER or 800-473-4237 . Direct 508-992-6464. Email: sales@focenter.com or fiberopticcenter@focenter.com

For media contact:
Kathleen Skelton, Director of Strategic Marketing, C: 617-803-3014 . E: kskelton@focenter.com