Communications Personals
BakerHostetler hires Greg Orlando, ex-aide on communications and technology policy to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., as senior adviser, Federal Policy team ... Vivendi moves Caroline Le Masne de Chermont, who had been a vice president, to head-legal affairs, Vivendi Group ... Powermat Technologies hires Elad Dubzinski, ex-Lucid, as CEO ... Time Warner's Turner elevates to senior vice presidents Curtis Lelash and Tramm Wigzell, both for original series at Cartoon Network, to expand original video and multiplatform programming ... Retiring effective in March from Disney is Geri Wang, president-ABC sales.
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Comcast Division Vice President-Customer Experience Dana Crandall joins Comcast West division senior leadership team and reports to division President Steve White in what the cable operator called an "organizational change" ... In MTN Group finalizing permanent senior management team, it said: Jens Schulte-Bockum was named group chief operating officer, effective Jan. 16, succeeding Jyoti Desai, retiring; Oliver Fortuin, now at BT Global Services Sub-Saharan Africa, will be executive head-business enterprise, effective March 1; and Bernice Samuels, ex-FNB and SABMiller, re-joins, named group executive-marketing, effective Jan. 1 ... New to video-advertising technology firm ViralGains are Julie Ginches as chief marketing officer and Glenn Kiladis, vice president-product management and strategy.
QVC moves Todd Sprinkle up to chief information officer ... Xaxis promotes Nicolas Bidon to global president, succeeding Brian Gleason, joining GroupM’s just announced [m]Platform as global CEO ... UltiSat appoints Dan Morris, ex-ARINC, senior director-government services ... Blackfire Research, wireless technology developer, hires Ruben Mookerjee, ex-Razer and onetime Logitech, as vice president-global sales and distribution.
Cox Enterprises elects to the board Henry Parry-Okeden, the InvitedHome co-founder who previously worked at Cox Communications and is the great-grandson of Cox Enterprises co-founder James Cox ... Axonista, interactive video solutions provider, names Dermot McCormack, ex-AOL, to its board ... Among TechCongress 2017 class of congressional innovation fellows are: Christopher Soghoian, American Civil Liberties Union Speech, Privacy and Technology Project ... Tessera adds to board David Habiger, senior adviser at Silver Lake Partners and venture partner with Pritzker Group ... Lobbyist registrations: DLT Solutions, Mercury, hired to lobby on cybersecurity, effective Dec. 1 ... LifeLock, Ogilvy Government Relations, effective Dec. 1.