Communications Personals
California promotes Amy Tong to director, California Department of Technology, where she was acting director ... Wireless Telecom Group hires board member Timothy Whelan, ex-consultant, as CEO, succeeding Paul Genova, named president-chief operating officer ... Calix hires Michael Weening, ex-Salesforce.com, as executive vice president-global sales ... Harland Clarke hires Grant Fitz, ex-Xerox Technology Business, as chief financial officer, Valassis ... Birch Communications hires Shawn Murray, ex-EarthLink, as senior vice president-chief sales officer ... E.W. Scripps hires Adam Chase, ex-Nexstar, as vice president-general manager, KERO-TV Bakersfield, California, where he previously worked, effective July 11.
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HackerOne hires Marjorie Janiewicz, ex-MongoDB, to lead sales as vice president ... Time Warner adds Michael Harwayne, ex-consultant and before that at Time Inc., as vice president-strategy, Turner ... ChyronHego hires A.J. Steffenberg, ex-Avid Technology, as vice president-worldwide customer support ... NetMotion Wireless adds Jim Walsh, ex-MobileIron, as vice president-North America sales ... Communications Sales & Leasing adds to board Scott Bruce, Associated Partners ... Vonage elects to board Gary Steele, Proofpoint.
Kyocera International streamlines U.S. management structure, it said: Robert Whisler, named president April 1, leads operations undergoing consolidation, succeeding John Rigby, retired; Whisler also named to Kyocera Corp. board; Kyocera America becomes Kyocera International’s Semiconductor Components Group, led by Vice President Nick Huntalas; Kyocera Communications becomes Kyocera International’s Communications Equipment Group, led by Akira Iino, now vice president-Kyocera International; Display Division becomes Kyocera International’s Display Division, led by Cynthia Ferrell, named senior divisional vice president; Printing Device Sales Division becomes Kyocera International’s Printing Device Sales Division, led by Doug Potter, now sales division general manager; and optical components and some other units go under Kyocera International’s CMO Sales Division, led by Bill Yermal, named sales division general manager, Kyocera International.