Communications Personals
Comcast elevates Beth Choroser to vice president-regulatory affairs, moving to Washington and working on regulatory matters affecting broadband, voice, public safety and security with a primary focus on the FCC, succeeding Mary McManus, retiring Monday ... Progressive Policy Institute opens Brussels office; leading it is Michael Quigley, EU public affairs expert, named director-European office; the office also is led by PPI Executive Director Lindsay Mark Lewis ... 21st Century Fox hires Andrew Cripps, leaving Imax, as president-international theatrical distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Film, effective in January.
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F5 Networks expands role of Ryan Kearny, named to executive leadership team as executive vice president-product development/chief technology officer ... Emergency Communications Network hires Wain Kellum, ex-Vonage Business Solutions, as CEO ... Joining National Wireless Safety Alliance board is Kenneth Hill, PPL Infrastructure Services, in the board of governors seat for utilities sector ... Decisive Communications adds to board Stephen Burch, also University of Maryland Medical System chairman.
GSMA said board elections include Sunil Bharti Mittal, Bharti Enterprises, as chairman, succeeding Jon Fredrik Baksaas, stepping down at year's end but remaining on the board; also on 2017-18 board are: Bill Hague, AT&T Mobility; Sha Yuejia, China Mobile; Sun Kangmin, China Telecom; Lu Yimin, China Unicom; Wolfgang Kopf, Deutsche Telekom; Hatem Dowidar, Etisalat; Mats Granryd, GSMA director general; Christian Salbaing, Hutchison; Takashi Tanaka, KDDI; Eelco Blok, KPN; Chang-Gyu Hwang, KT; Mauricio Ramos, Millicom; Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN Group; Andrei Dubovskov, MTS; Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, NTT Docomo; Mari-Noëlle Jego-Laveissiere, Orange Group; Dong-Hyun Jang, SK Telecom; Julio Linares López, Telefoìnica; Sigve Brekke, Telenor Group; Johan Dennelind, Telia; Kaan Terzioğlu, Turkcell; Roy Chestnutt, Verizon; Serpil Timuray, Vodafone; and Scott Gegenheimer, Zain Group.