Communications Personals
European Commission names Tiina Astola, Finnish Ministry of Justice, director general-justice and consumers, effective Feb. 1; effective immediately it names from the EC Sixtine Bouygues and Margaritis Schinas deputy-directors general, DG Communication; and moves Claire Bury to deputy director general-DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, effective in January ... Time Inc. hires Jennifer Wong, ex-PopSugar, as president-Time Inc. Digital, new position ... Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media promotes Courtney Holt to executive vice president-head, Maker Studios, succeeding Ynon Kreiz, Maker president, leaving the company effective Jan. 11 ... Nielsen promotes Steve Hasker to global president-chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1.
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John McAdam, onetime CEO-president of F5 Networks, resigns as chairman to return to CEO post, succeeding Manuel Rivelo, who the company said resigned from that job and the board "for matters regarding personal conduct unrelated to the operations or financials of the Company"; Alan Higginson, lead independent director, named nonexecutive chairman; McAdam remains on board ... Univision Communications names Alberto Cairo, University of Miami, visualization innovator-in-residence, Univision Digital, new position ... 4G Americas elects Tom Keathley, AT&T, 2016 chairman of board ... Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers board OKs SMPTE U.K. region and names Bruce Devlin, Dalet, its first governor ... Boeing board elects Randall Stephenson, AT&T, a new director, effective in February ... Global VSAT Forum elects to board for two-year term Tracey Haslam, Harris CapRock Communications ... Equinix names to board Nanci Caldwell, ex-PeopleSoft ... Dialogic adds to board Chris Burke, ex-Vodafone.