On September 26, 2018, Altice USA, Inc. announced that Victoria Mink, the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, had communicated her intention to resign from her position with the Company and had agreed to continue to serve as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company for a transition period to be agreed upon with the Company. Ms. Mink's resignation from the Company became effective on October 12, 2018. Effective January 1, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Layth Taki as Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Taki, has served as Senior Vice President and Controller of the Company since July 2011. From November 2004 until June 2011, Mr. Taki served as Vice President of Technical Accounting of Cablevision Systems Corporation. Prior to joining Cablevision Systems Corporation, Mr. Taki was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.
Altice USA, Inc. is a broadband communications and video services provider in the United States, delivering broadband, video, mobile, proprietary content and advertising services to residential and business customers across 21 states through its Optimum brand. The Company has presences primarily in the New York metropolitan area and various markets in the south-central United States through a fiber-rich hybrid-fiber coaxial broadband network and a fiber-to-the-home network. The Company offers news programming and advertising services. It operates a4, an advanced advertising and data business, which provides audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions to local, regional and national businesses and advertising clients. It offers hyper-local, national, international and business news through its News 12 and i24NEWS networks. It also offers managed services, including hosted private branch exchange, managed Wi-Fi and network security for small and medium-sized business customers.