Communications Personals
Howard Shelanski, ex-Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs administrator, rejoins Davis Polk as partner, Antitrust and Competition group .... Rejoining Wiley Rein is Henry Gola, ex-Media General, which Nexstar bought, as associate, Telecom, Media & Technology Practice ... Content Creators Coalition hires LMG Public Affairs, names its Chief Operating Officer Ted Kalo communications director for the coalition, and he remains LMG COO ... Cameron LLP hires lawyer/lobbyist/strategist Brian Wommack, ex-Powell Tate, as partner and head, its new Strategic Communications practice.
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Disney|ABC Television Group starts "portfolio-wide" advertising sales division and expands roles of Rita Ferro to lead it as the division's president, and at the group: Debbie Richman promoted to executive vice president-brand, revenue and yield management; Laura Nathanson, former executive vice president-sales and marketing, Freeform, expands role to have that title for client and audience solutions; and Debra O’Connell, ex-president, national TV sales, ABC Owned Stations Group, expands role and named executive vice president-sales and marketing ... Zubie, connected-car platform and telematics provider, hires Gary Tucker, ex-DealerRater and J.D. Power and Associates, as CEO.
RPX hires as senior vice presidents Andy Block, ex-Time Warner Cable, now part of Charter Communications, and Neal Rubin, ex-Cisco ... Samsung hires Phil Cohn, ex-TouchTunes Interactive, D&M Holdings and Sony, as senior vice president-sales ... Honeywell adds from IBM Stephen Gold as vice president-general manager, Connected Enterprises, new position ... NexDefense industrial cybersecurity software provider announces Jeff Spence, ex-DraftServ, as CEO ... Paysafe names Oscar Nieboer, ex-Amazon Instant Video, as chief marketing officer, new position ... Nexstar Media promotes Vice President-General Manager Larry Cottrill to a bigger market in those titles for WRIC-TV Petersburg, Virginia, and associated digital services ... ASL Intercom, which Riedel Communications bought in the fall, adds Wil Stam, audio expert and executive, as managing director.
National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications names Charter Communications' Rhonda Crichlow to NAMIC's board of advisers and Cheryl Manley joins the national board ... National Association of Tower Erectors UAS Committee adds Art Pregler, AT&T; Christopher Desmond, Verizon Wireless; and Robert McCoy, Crown Castle ... Newseum names as trustees Karen Appleton Page, ex-Box; David Edelman, ex-White House aide, and he joins board of trustees; Murray Garnick, Altria Client Services; and Julie Henderson, 21st Century Fox.