Communications Personals
Recently sworn in at South Carolina Public Service Commission are Swain Whitfield as chairman and Randy Randall as vice chairman ... FairPoint Communications Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Ajay Sabherwal resigned, potentially effective after the first week of August; promoted to succeed him as CFO is Executive Vice President Karen Turner, who will continue leading human resources and risk management ... Tribune Broadcasting hires Kerry Oslund, ex-Schurz Communications, as vice president-strategy and business development ... Frontier Communications moves Michael Golob to senior vice president-engineering and technology, West region, the telco's largest operating region ... Epix hires Jonathan Dakss, ex-NBCUniversal, as chief digital officer ... Neustar hires Venkat Achanta, ex-Walmart, as chief data and analytics officer, new position.
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President Barack Obama nominates Jannette Lake Dates, dean emerita of the Howard University School of Communications, to be a member of CPB's board, a reappointment, for a term ending Jan. 31, 2022 ... Tor Project said old directors elect new board: Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania; Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Gabriella Coleman, McGill University; Linus Nordberg, software developer; Megan Price, Human Rights Data Analysis Group; and Bruce Schneier, Harvard University; as Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, among the former directors, will continue as co-founders of the project ... Lobbyist registrations: SITA, IT transportation firm, Cassidy & Associates, effective June 13 ... T-Mobile, Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, effective July 1 ... Mass-notification software company Desktop Alert, Dana Hudson, effective June 1.