Communications Personals
FCC hires Michael Scurato, leaving National Hispanic Media Coalition, as legal adviser, Enforcement Bureau Office of the Bureau Chief, effective July 11 ... Hawaii Public Utilities Commission's Thomas Gorak, who has been chief counsel, sworn in as a commissioner, succeeding, with term expired June 30, Michael Champley ... Michigan Public Service Commission names Kavita Kale, ex-Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, executive secretary and Freedom of Information Act coordinator ... Univision Communications promotes Isaac Lee to chief news, entertainment and digital officer, and he continues to oversee Fusion Media Group and is leading the search for Univision's new president-entertainment, a position that will report to him.
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CBS promotes Steven LoCascio to chief operating officer, CBS Television Distribution, where Stephen Hackett is promoted to president-sales; he succeeds Joe DiSalvo, moving to an adviser role; and both LoCascio and Hackett report to Paul Franklin, who the broadcaster said Wednesday was hired as president-CBS Television Distribution (see this space in the July 7 issue) ... Skyhook, smartphone-based location services platform, names Craig Waggy CEO and hires Karl Holzthum, ex-Nexxphase, as chief sales and marketing officer ... Western Digital names Mark Long to oversee finance organization as executive vice president-finance, in addition being chief strategy officer, succeeding Olivier Leonetti as chief financial officer, effective Sept. 1; Leonetti is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities and will advise the CEO through Oct. 1 ... Starz promotes Alison Hoffman to chief marketing officer, new position.
TextNow, cloud-based mobile phone service provider, hires Lindsay Gibson, ex-BlackBerry, as chief operating officer ... Anaqua, intellectual property management software and services provider, hires Christine Jennings, ex-IP Preferential, as president-Anaqua Services, succeeding Gerard Borin, to be directeur délégué through year's end ... Frontier Communications promotes Trent Anderson to senior vice president-Southern California Eastside territory ... Time Warner hires Michael Marinello, ex-Bloomberg LP, as senior vice president-corporate communications ... Sprint promotes David Aspinall to vice president-enterprise sales, South area ... The Ad Council names Margo Georgiadis, Google, chairwoman, succeeding David Christopher, AT&T Mobility, and next July, David Sable, Y&R, will be chairman ... DTS elects Eric Cohen, ex-Dolby Labs, to its board ... GoPro appoints Lauren Zalaznick, ex-NBCUniversal, to its board.
Newly elected at FCBA, it said: Robert Branson, Verizon, president; Julie Kearney, CTA, president-elect; Lee Petro, Drinker Biddle, treasurer; Megan Anne Stull, Google, assistant treasurer; Natalie Roisman, Wilkinson Barker, secretary; and Joshua Turner, Wiley Rein, assistant secretary; elected to executive committee are Roger Sherman, Angela Simpson, NTIA, and Krista Witanowski, CTIA; chapter representative is Joiava Philpott, Cox Communications; young lawyers' representative is Rachael Bender, Mobile Future; to foundation board are Scott Bergmann, CTIA, Darah Franklin, Google, Aspasia Paroutsas, FCC, and Davina Sashkin, Fletcher Heald; and on Nominations Committee are Ann West Bobeck, Covington & Burling, Matthew DelNero, FCC, and Smitty Smith, also FCC.