Communications Personals
Cox Enterprises hires Rachel Welch, ex-Time Warner Cable, as vice president-government affairs ... Yahoo moves in Washington office: Alyssa Gowens Betz, ex-TwinLogic Strategies, hired as senior director-public policy, focusing on Senate and House Democrats; Leah Harrelson Graham moves to expand portfolio to handle Republican relationships; and Kevin Kramer moves within the company to join global public policy team and named head-IP policy ... Charter Communications names Rhonda Crichlow, ex-Novartis Pharmaceuticals, senior vice president-chief diversity officer, new position ... Rivada Networks appoints Karen Freitag, ex-Sprint Enterprise, executive vice president-sales.
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Bob Swan, ex-General Atlantic, hired as Intel executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Oct. 10, succeeding Stacy Smith, previously announced as taking a broader role leading manufacturing, sales and operations ... Ericsson combines strategy and technology functions, moving Ulf Ewaldsson to senior vice president-chief strategy and technology officer/head-group function strategy and technology, Ericsson Group; Chief Strategy Officer Rima Qureshi becomes head-region North America ... USA Groups, distributed antenna system and small-cells firm, adds Lance Craft, ex-Dali Wireless, as chief operating officer, USA CRAN.
President Barack Obama's nomination of Elizabeth Field to Office of Personnel Management inspector general was sent to the Senate ... Tarana Wireless said Jan Uddenfeldt, adviser to Ericsson and Sony Mobile, joins board ... Small Cell Forum said board elections include David Orloff, AT&T, as chairman, and to board: Paul Senior, Airspan; Prabhakar Chitrapu, AT&T; Mark Grayson, Cisco; Luigi Tarlazzi, CommScope; Martin Ljungberg, Ericsson; Nansen Ding, Huawei; Nick Johnson, ip.access; Mike Cronin, Node-H; Randy Cox, Nokia; Caleb Banke, Qualcomm Technologies; Tareq Amin, Reliance Jio; Thad Lowe, Samsung Electronics America; Aya Mukaikubo, SoftBank; Art King, SpiderCloud Wireless; and Andrew Dunkin, Vodafone ... Wesco elects Matthew Espe, ex-Armstrong World Industries, to board, effective Nov. 1.