Communications Personals
Intel hired Linda Kinney, ex-NTIA, as managing counsel-product regulatory ... American National Standards Institute adds Mary Saunders, leaving the National Institute of Standards and Technology and former ANSI vice chairwoman, as vice president-government relations and public policy, effective March 1, succeeding Scott Cooper, retired ... Viacom Kids & Family Group Chief Operating Officer Sarah Levy moves to COO of the company's Global Entertainment Group, new position ... Washington Utilities and Transportation Commissioner Philip Jones won't seek a third term after his term ended Jan. 1; Gov. Jay Inslee (D) extended his service until Feb. 28.
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Tupelo-Honey Raycom and WebStream Sports are combining resources into Tupelo Raycom programming/production company: Tupelo-Honey founder Cary Glotzer named CEO, Tupelo Raycom; WebStream founder John Servizzi as executive vice president; and Greg Weitekamp also has that title ... Arizona Corporation Commission names Timothy La Sota ACC acting general counsel and acting director-Legal Division ... Checkmarx, application security testing firm, hires Shmuel Arvatz, ex-Allot Communications, as chief financial officer (see this section in the Nov. 30 issue of this publication) ... Vivendi names Amos Genish, ex-Telefonica Brasil, as chief convergence officer.
Hargray Communications promotes Gwynne Lastinger to vice president-customer operations ... Joining Blockstream: Ben Teitelbaum, ex-Open Garden, as vice president-engineering ... Equinox Payment Solutions names Bohdan Myroniw, ex-Verifone’s AJB, vice president-strategic alliances ... Republicans joining House Commerce Committee, as expected (see 1701040068), are Buddy Carter of Georgia, Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania, Tim Walberg of Michigan and Mimi Walters of California.
FCC said it names to Disability Advisory Committee: Elaine Gardner, designated federal officer, and as alternate, Will Schell; members include Brian Scarpelli, ACT|the App Association; from American Council of the Blind Anthony Stephens and Eric Bridges, alternate; American Foundation for the Blind's Mark Richert and Rebecca Sheffield, alternate; Apple's Timothy Powderly and Sarah Herrlinger, alternate; AT&T's Linda Vandeloop and Susan Mazrui, alternate; Comcast's Thomas Wlodkowski and alternates Chris Wendt and Jerry Parkins; CTA's Julie Kearney, William Belt, alternate; CTIA's Kara Romagnino, Matthew Gerst, alternate; John Card, EchoStar; for Gallaudet Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Improving the Accessibility, Usability and Performance of Technology for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Christian Vogler and Linda Kozma-Spytek, alternate; Hearing Loss Association of America's Lise Hamlin and Barbara Kelley, alternate; Ken Salaets, Information Technology Industry Council; Scott Kelley, LG Electronics; for NAB Joshua Pila and alternate Larry Walke; National Association of the Deaf's Zainab Alkebsi, with Howard Rosenblum; NCTA's Diane Burstein and alternates Jill Luckett and Stephanie Podey; for Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Claude Stout and alternate Blake Reid; Verizon's Zachary Bastian and alternate Ian Dillner; and for Yahoo, Larry Goldberg.
Copyright Alliance adds to board Todd Dupler, representing The Recording Academy, and Bart Herbison, representing Nashville Songwriters Association International, to two-year terms ... National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications added to board for three-year terms, effective Jan. 1: Ann Carlsen, Carlsen Resources; Jerold Lambert, Mediacom; Bill Lee, Arris; Joiava Philpott, Cox; Pragash Pillai, Altice USA; and Dane Snowden, NCTA ... Lobbyist registrations: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Michelle Richardson, effective Jan. 3 ... Element Electronics Corp., Hogan Lovells, effective Dec. 30 ... SES Americom, Perry Bayliss, effective Nov. 1.