Communications Personals
Enterprise Wireless Alliance hires Robin Cohen, ex-Sprint, as executive director-regulatory affairs and spectrum strategies, new position ... Kevin Kunkel, advanced at Sprint to president, Southern California region; Mark Nachman, ex-Verizon, named for Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia region; and Jonathan Blitz, also ex-Verizon, appointed for South Central region ... Library of Congress moves John Cole to historian, new position ... National Governors Association names to Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council for 2016-2017: Gil Orrantia, aide to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), chairman; Perry Plummer, aide to New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D), vice chairman; and members Mark Ghilarducci, aide to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), Kevin Klein, aide to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), Jim Butterworth, aide to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R), John Hill, aide to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), Keith Squires, aide to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R), and Jimmy Gianato, aide to West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D).
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Ericsson said it will add to Executive Leadership Team (ELT), effective July 1: Senior Vice President-Head, Business Unit Network Products Arun Bansal; Senior Vice President-Chief Customer Officer and Head, Group Function Sales Niklas Heuveldop; Head-Region, North East Asia Chris Houghton; Senior Vice President-Head, Business Unit Network Services Fredrik Jejdling; Senior Vice President-Head, Business Unit IT & Cloud Products Anders Lindblad; Senior Vice President-Head, Business Unit IT & Cloud Services Jean-Philippe Poirault; Senior Vice President-Head, Customer Group Industry & Society Charlotta Sund; and Head-Group Function Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Elaine Weidman-Grunewald; leaving ELT, also effective July 1, are: Magnus Mandersson, who remains executive vice president and moves to head, Segment Global Services and adviser to CEO Hans Vestberg; Senior Vice President-Head, Group Function Sales Jan Wäreby, who is retiring effective Nov. 30; Senior Vice President-Chief Information Officer-Head, Group Function Business Excellence and Common Functions Anders Thulin, leaving; Head-Region, North America Angel Ruiz, who will be chair-regions, North and Latin America; and Senior Vice President-Head, Ericsson Asia-Pacific Mats Olsson, leaving.