Communications Personals
Tele2 promotes Stefan Backman to executive vice president-group general counsel, effective Dec. 1, succeeding Caroline Fellenius-Omnell, named Skanska Group executive vice president-group general counsel ... Tribune Media hires Chris Wayland, ex-Sunbeam Television, as vice president-group operations, Tribune Broadcasting, effective Sept. 19 ... Boomtown accelerator announces Jason Searfoss, ex-Longford Capital, as chief financial officer ...Syniverse names Jeff White, ex-Cisco, group vice president-global sales, Service Provider Group unit ... Under Concurrent's agreement with some investors, Wayne Barr, Oakleaf Consulting Group, will join the board, as Shelton James resigns.
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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers said it names SMPTE fellows: Fernando Bittencourt, TV Globo; Tim Borer, BBC Research and Development; Paul Briscoe, Televisionary Consulting; Matthew Cowan, Entertainment Technology Canada; Ian Fletcher, Grass Valley; John Footen, Cognizant; Walt Husak, Dolby; John Mailhot, Imagine Communications; Thomas Bause Mason, NBCUniversal; Stan Moote, IABM; Michelle Munson, IBM's Aspera; Joshua Pines, Technicolor Production Services; Stephan Scheel, PBS; Tom Sprague, Museum of Broadcast Technology; Masayuki Sugawara, NEC Corp.; and Peter Wharton, BroadStream.