Communications Personals
FCC Deputy Chief Information Officer-Technology and Resiliency Christine Calvosa to be acting FCC CIO when David Bray leaves (see this section of the June 6 issue of this publication); also at the commission, Sanford Williams moves up to director-Office of Communications Business Opportunity, where he was acting director ... Christensen O'Connor adds patent attorneys from Blakely Sokoloff, as partners James Go and Cory Claassen, and as associates Daniel Hutchins and Denton McAlister.
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At American Tower Corp. effective July 1: Europe, Middle East and Africa CEO Stephen Harris named chairman-ATC Europe; Senior Vice President-Treasurer and Investor Relations Leah Stearns gets rotational assignment as CEO-EMEA; during that assignment, Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Tom Bartlett assumes treasurer role, and Director-Investor Relations Igor Khislavsky leads IR team ... Gray Television promotions to general managers: Jay Barton at WCAX-TV Burlington, Vermont, succeeding Peter Martin, retiring from the station; Kim Lee for WABI-TV Bangor, Maine, succeeding Mike Young, retired; Alan Chatman for WCJB-TV Gainesville, Florida, succeeding Carolyn Barrett, retired; and in Charlottesville, Virginia, Eric Krebs succeeds Barton for WCAV, WVAW-LP and WAHU-CD ... At CBS, Amy Reisenbach promoted to executive vice president-current programs, succeeding Bridget Wiley, leaving the network.
New York Times Co. moves up Meredith Kopit Levien to executive vice president-chief operating officer; Kinsey Wilson position as executive vice president-product and technology being eliminated and he will advise CEO Mark Thompson, Executive Editor Dean Baquet and other senior leaders on strategic matters ... Evine Live elevates Chief Financial Officer Tim Peterman to also be chief operating officer ... Intelsat, opening new sales office in Nairobi, names Lawrence Mungai, ex-WestConAfrica, to run it ... Procon Analytics connected car telematics re-adds David Meyer, ex-Spireon, as chief operating officer ... Park Assist moves Scott Dubois to vice president-product management, effective July 1 ... Sabio Mobile hires include Andrew Polsky, ex-Adsmovil, as senior vice president-East Coast sales and total market strategy.
President Donald Trump to nominate Christopher Wray, partner at King & Spalding, to be FBI director; TechNet wants the confirmation process, “because of the F.B.I.'s increasing engagement with the technology industry," to explore Wray's "views on digital privacy rights, encryption technologies, and needed reforms to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act"; in May, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey (see this section of the May 10 issue of this publication) ... A committee from NCTA’s board, led by Comcast Senior Executive Vice President David Cohen and Advance/Newhouse CEO Steve Miron, will "review the activities of organizations that are supported by the cable industry" for the association, member companies and other industry organizations to use to evaluate their programs, a spokesman tells us.