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Ligado hires Bill Davenport, ex-FCC Enforcement Bureau, as senior vice president/deputy general counsel-regulatory affairs ... A FairPoint director will join the Consolidated Communications board (see 1612050030) as Consolidated takes over Fairpoint, the buyer said in an SEC filing; upon completion of the $1.5 billion deal, Bob Udell will continue as president-CEO of the combined company; Paul Sunu is FairPoint CEO; a spokeswoman told us that it's too soon to say if he will have a role post-closing ... Viacom promotes Tom Gorke to executive vice president-content distribution, succeeding Denise Denson, leaving the company ... Cinnamon Mueller elevates Scott Friedman to partner, effective Jan. 1; he works with cable, broadband and telecom clients ... Rob Roy, ex-Comcast, joins Sprint as chief digital officer.
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Disney adds Julie Shapiro, ex-APA Talent Agency, as senior vice president-business affairs, Freeform ... Xerox hires William Osbourn, ex-Time Warner Cable, which Charter Communications acquired, as chief financial officer, Xerox Corp., effective with separation into two publicly traded companies at year's end; now, he becomes CFO, Technology business; Xerox CFO Leslie Varon is retiring, effective after the separation and a transition ... Michael Gillespie, ex-ZGS Television Station Group, named president-general manager, Univision Puerto Rico; Jaime Bauzá remains general manager-radio operations, reporting to Gillespie ... Uber said it started AI Labs, which will be comprised of the 15 staffers at artificial intelligence research startup Geometric Intelligence, whose founding CEO Gary Marcus will run AI Labs ... Forcepoint announces Meerah Rajavel, ex-Qlik, as chief information officer and member of the executive leadership team.
New Mozilla Foundation board member is Helen Turvey, Shuttleworth Foundation ... ICANN said it named to NextGen@ICANN58, to participate in the group's 58th meeting in Copenhagen: Chawana Huangsuntornchai, Leiden University; Clement Genty, Arts & Metiers ParisTech; Peter Cihon, University of Cambridge; Desara Dushi, University of Luxembourg; Olga Kyryliuk, National University of Kiev; Matthias Markus Hudobnik, University of Graz; Katharin Tai and Jacqueline Anita Eggenschwiler, both of University of Oxford; Luã Fergus Oliveira da Cruz, Nova University of Lisbon; Abderrahman Ait Ali, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Valeriia Filinovych, National University of Kyiv; Yousra Hsina, Institut National des Sciences appliquées de Renne; Krishna Kumar Rajamannar and Carolina Matamoros Ferro, both of Hertie School of Governance; Nertil Bërdufi, University of Tirana; Rachel Pollack Ichou, program ambassador U.S.; Laurin Weissinger, program Ambassador Germany; Rusu Andreea Madalina, program ambassador Romania; Sheilla Ayot Nyeko, program ambassador Uganda; and Stefan Kovac, program ambassador Serbia.