Communications Personals
Univision Communications hiring Raju Narisetti, ex-News Corp., as CEO-Univision Fusion Media Group's Gizmodo Media Group, effective in late October ... Comcast hires Erika Estrada Boden, ex-Fox International Channels Latin America, as vice president-business and legal affairs, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, working on digital and other issues ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announces Digital Team, comprised of the Digital Product & User Experience Group led by: Dena Fletcher, ex-Advance Digital, hired as vice president-digital product & user experience; and just-created Data Strategy & Business Intelligence Group, led by David Frigeri, ex-ColdLight Solutions, which was bought by PTC, joining as vice president-data strategy & business intelligence.
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PR Newswire parent Cision hires Sean O’Driscoll, ex-PwC and Microsoft, as chief strategy and insights officer, and Robert Coppola, ex-S&P Global, as chief information officer ... Discovery Communications adds Michael Bishara, ex-Synacor, as senior vice president/general manager-over-the-top & digital syndication ... Disney names John Rood, ex-DC Entertainment, senior vice president-marketing, Disney Channels Worldwide, rejoining the company and succeeding Richard Loomis, who decided to step down effective next month to pursue other ventures ... Nexsan, unified storage firm, appoints Tony Craythorne, ex-NexGen Storage, senior vice president-worldwide sales.
Inteliquent appoints Eric Carlson, who remains controller, interim principal financial officer and interim principal accounting officer; is identifying a candidate to be permanent chief financial officer; Chief Financial Officer-Executive Vice President Kurt Abkemeier resigned ... Artel Video Systems announces Rafael Fonseca, ex-Cedar Point Communications, as vice president/director-product management ... Peloton Technology announces Lawrence Burns, an industry adviser on transportation, energy, communications systems and advanced technology, joins board ... Gray Television board elects Richard Hare, Carmike Cinemas, a director.
C-SPAN board elections: Neil Smit, Comcast Cable, chairman, Executive Committee; succeeding Pat Esser, Cox Communications; also elected is Pat McAdaragh, Midco ... Radio Television Digital News Association elections include: Scott Libin, University of Minnesota, chairman-elect; Vincent Duffy, Michigan Radio, chairman; Kathy Walker, KOA(AM) Denver, chairwoman, Radio Television Digital News Foundation for 2016-17; Mark Millage, Media Minefield, regional director, Region 4; David Wagner, KLST San Angelo, Texas, two-year term as regional director, Region 6; Gary Wordlaw, Baton Rouge's WVLA-TV and WGMB-TV, two-year term as regional director, Region 9; Blaise Labbe, San Antonio's WOAI-TV and KABB, two-year term as director at-large; and to same post, Chip Mahaney, E.W. Scripps ... At Corporate Leadership Council, comprised of National Association of State Chief Information Officers corporate members, elections for 2016-17 program year: Corky Allen, Dell EMC, chairman; Dan Lohrmann, Secure Mentor, vice chairman; and Allen succeeds Jennifer Axt, also Dell EMC, as CLC chair ... Among those on 2016-18 President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa are Takreem El-Tohamy, IBM; Peter Grauer, Bloomberg LP; Barbara Keating, Computer Frontiers; and Tom Klein, Sabre.