Communications Personals
USTelecom Senior Executive Vice President Alan Roth to retire, effective sometime next year ... OneWeb hires Matthew O’Connell, ex-consultant, as CEO ... Application Developers Alliance names Jake Ward permanent president, and also CEO, succeeding as planned Jon Potter, who stepped down in September ... Electronic Frontier Foundation hires Barak Weinstein, a former EFF legal secretary, as executive assistant ... AnyClip Media, content marketing platform for distributing branded video, hires Gil Becker, ex-myThings, as CEO, succeeding Oren Nauman ... Wilson Electronics hires Curtis Burkhart, ex-SureCall, as director-enterprise sales ... Twitter hires Omid Kordestani, ex-Google, as executive chairman.
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Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers election winners include Tony Werner, Comcast, chairman for 2015-16 term, and other executive committee members are Bill Warga, Liberty Global, vice chairman; Christine Whitaker, Comcast, treasurer; and Steve Williams, Time Warner Cable, secretary ... Elected to new posts for these individuals on the WTA board are Paul Kelly, Cordova Telephone Cooperative, president; Jerry Piper, Cambridge Telephone, vice president; and board member Pat McElroy, Northeast Nebraska Telephone.
National Association of State Chief Information Officers board includes: Darryl Ackley, New Mexico, president; Mark Raymond, Connecticut, vice president; Calvin Rhodes, Georgia, secretary/treasurer; and executive committee directors Thomas Baden, Minnesota; Chris Estes, North Carolina; James Fowler, Kentucky; Gale Given, West Virginia; Craig Orgeron, Mississippi; and Jim Smith, Maine ... BlackBerry adds to board Wayne Wouters, ex-Canadian government official ... Lobbyist registrations: Bruin Biometrics, The Madison Group, effective Sept. 21 ... Chickasaw Telephone Co., FaegreBD Consulting, effective Oct. 1 ... FanDuel, Steptoe & Johnson, effective Sept. 17 ... First Data Corp., Card & Associates, effective Sept. 1 ... Motorola Solutions, Heather Podesta + Partners, effective Sept. 1 ... Newberry Advisors on behalf of Educational Media Foundation, The O Team, effective July 1 ... SecureKey Technologies, Hogan Lovells, effective Oct. 1 ... 21st Century Fox, Polsinelli, effective Sept. 1.