Communications Personals
WilmerHale hires as partner, effective in November, Alejandro Mayorkas, departing deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security; Undersecretary for Management Russ Deyo named acting deputy secretary, effective Oct. 29 ... ComScore early employee Dan Hess returns as head-digital audience and advertising products ... 21st Century Fox hires Brendan Ripp, ex-Time Inc., as executive vice president-National Geographic sales and partnerships, Fox Networks Group, new position ... Raycom names Erik Schrader, ex-WIAT Birmingham, Alabama, vice president-general manager, WOIO Shaker Heights and WUAB Lorain, both in Ohio.
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Rubicon Project names Tom Kershaw, ex-Google, to global leadership team as chief product & engineering officer ... Highlander Partners, private equity investor, is expanding into technology and communications sector, and supporting that is Rashid Skaf, ex-AMX, which ultimately was bought by Harman, and who is named to private equity team ... NQ Mobile adds to board Lingyun Guo, its chief strategy officer, and Joanne Yan Zhu, Zhongzhi Hi-Tech Overseas Investment ... Socket Mobile appoints Nelson Chan, on boards of Adesto Technologies, Decker Brands and Synaptics, among others, to its board.
Enterprise Wireless Alliance elects to board: Kirk Alland, Unication; Steve Eckels, Wireless Communications Inc.; Jonathan Franklin, Signal Communications; Bradley Goldring, Ford Motor; and Daryl Jackson, ComSource; and board members who are now officers and/or Executive Committee members: Catherine Leonard, Comtronics, chairwoman; David Reeves, P&R Communications Service, vice chairman; Gordon Day, Day Wireless Systems, treasurer; and Mark Crosby, Enterprise Wireless Alliance, president; and also Bart Fisher, Fisher Wireless Services; Michael Fordinal, DFW Communications; Bill Landis, TuWay Communications; Paul Lauttamus, Lauttamus Communications; and Bob McGowan, Fleet Talk Partners.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers said elections for 2017-18 term include, as officers: Matthew Goldman, Ericsson, as president; he succeeds Robert Seidel, CBS, who remains on SMPTE board as past president; Patrick Griffis, Dolby and a SMPTE education vice president, as executive vice president; and Richard Welsh, Sundog Media Toolkit, education vice president; newly elected governors: François Abbe, Mesclado, governor for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America regions; Brian Claypool, Barco, Central region; Christopher Fetner, Netflix, Hollywood region; George Hoover, NEP Group, Eastern region; Michael Koetter, Turner Broadcasting, Southern region; Gary Mandle, Sony North America, Western region; Masayuki Sugawara, NEC Corp., Asia-Pacific region;. François Vaillant, CBC/Radio-Canada, Canadian region.