Communications Personals
Frontier Communications hires Peter DePasquale, ex-Praxair, as vice president-communications and corporate affairs ... GfK hires Laura Wendt, ex-Singtel, as executive vice president-media, Consumer Experiences and Consumer Choices organizations ... Adtran hires Roger Shannon, ex-Steel Technologies, as senior vice president-finance/chief financial officer; Michael Foliano, who was interim CFO, remains responsible for all manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, corporate IT, facilities and real estate as senior vice president-global operations ... Samsung Techwin America hires Richard Simone, ex-Panasonic, as vice president-sales and marketing ... CenturyLink adds to board ex-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), filling seat vacated by Fred Nichols, who died earlier in 2015.
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Space Foundation said it elects: Kay Sears, Intelsat General, to two-year term as secretary, succeeding Kathryn Thornton, ex-NASA astronaut, who becomes special director, education; Hoyt Davidson, Near Earth, to board and two-year term as treasurer, succeeding Anita Antenucci; Houlihan Lokey, to life director, James Ellis, Hoover Institution, to chairman, succeeding Lon Levin, XM Satellite co-founder, to director emeritus; to three-year board terms Alice Bunn, UK Space Agency, Jeffrey Grant, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Blake Larson, Orbital ATK, Amy Mainzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Richards, Moon Express, William Shelton, ex-Air Force Space Command, and Richard Yuse, Raytheon; and two-year term as new-generation space leader Victoria Alonsoperez, Chipsafer ... Lobbyist registrations: Electronic Payments Coalition, Geoffrey Gray, effective Oct. 1 ... LightSquared, Ogilvy Government Relations, effective Oct. 5.