Communications Personals
Garvey Schubert hires cable and communications lawyer Art Harding, ex-Locke Lord, as of counsel ... Returning to AT&T is Peter Jacoby, ex-UnitedHealth Group, as vice president-federal relations and director-legislative strategy ... Raycom promotes Pat LaPlatney to president-CEO, succeeding Paul McTear, retiring effective at the end of June, and promotes Susana Schuler to executive vice president-content & operations ... Shaw Communications promotes Jay Mehr to president and adds "accountabilities" for regulatory and government relations for Peter Johnson, executive vice president-chief legal and regulatory officer ... Disney promotes to vice presidents Lauren Kisilevsky for original movies, Disney Channel, and Jonas Agin for original series, Disney Channel and Disney XD.
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Keek, purveyor of short video and accompanying messages online, said it named Mark Itwaru chairman-CEO, succeeding interim CEO Dimi Paun, who remains chief technology officer, and elected to board William Lavin, Vincent McLeod, Ahmed Khan and Fareed Amin; former Chairman John Jussup and director Gerry Feldman leave board ... RingCentral hires Zane Long, ex-Vonage, as vice president-channel sales ... Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president-general manager of Intel's Client Computing Group, to keynote CES Asia May 11, Kerry Hotel, Shanghai ... National Lifeline Association adds to board for three-year term beginning in June William Curry, Life Wireless, and Kim Lehrman, enTouch Wireless ... Hawaiian Telcom, in standstill agreement with Twin Haven Capital Partners, the telco's No. 2 shareholder, said it will nominate Robert Webster, Twin Haven, or another representative of the investor to the board at each of the next three annual meetings.