Communications Personals
Common Ground Alliance hires attorney Sarah Magruder Lyle, ex-America’s Natural Gas Alliance, as president, effective Jan. 23; she succeeds Bob Kipp, president since the start of the stakeholder-run organization to protect underground lines; his presidency ends in late April ... Joining Fletcher Heald is Mark DeSantis as associate attorney; he came to the law firm from the Global Antitrust Institute, where his fellowship included research on international antitrust and intellectual property law ... 21st Century Fox names at Fox News Kevin Lord, ex-Tegna, executive vice president-human resources, effective Jan. 16 ... Salem Media Group hires Gregg Stiansen, ex-Nassau Media, as general manager, Philadelphia cluster of radio stations, succeeding Russ Whitnah, retiring effective Dec. 31.
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Discovery Communications names Bernard Ross, ex-Union of European Football Associations, as chief operating officer/general manager-Olympic Games, at Eurosport, a new position ... Carnegie Technologies hires: Peter Feldman, ex-AT&T Wi-Fi Services, as chief operating officer/chief technology officer; Paul Struhsaker, ex-Dell’s Client Solutions Group, joins as CTO of Carnegie Labs, new research and development division; Kurt Bauer, ex-Nomadix, named managing director-global sales and business development; and Matt Hovis, ex-M87, becomes chief marketing officer ... Ayla Networks creates new positions: Tom Clark, ex-Openwave Messaging, named chief financial officer and Jessica Zhou, ex-Weebly, is general counsel.
Legend, virtual reality, 3D and virtual effects creator, names Dave Habiger, ex-Textura Corp., as chairman; Aidan Foley, who led group that bought Fox Mobile from News Corp., becomes CEO; and Ellie Trope, ex-MGA Entertainment, as vice president-legal affairs ... Promisec board appoints Simo Kamppari, who has been on its board, as CEO-president ... Rajant additions include Geoff Smith, ex-Wave Mobile Solutions, as executive vice president-global sales and marketing ... TeleSign hires security and software expert Tom Powledge, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as chief product officer, new post ... Incoming vice presidents at Axio cyber-risk/insurance strategies firm are Pamela Curtis, ex-SEI, in process engineering, and Lisa Young, ex-Software Engineering Institute, in service delivery ... Joining Yext is Andy Champion, ex-Oracle Marketing Cloud, as vice president-northern Europe.
Marvell Technology adds to its board Tudor Brown, ex-ARM Holdings ... CompTIA elects to ANZ Channel Community Executive Council for 2017: Shelly Duncan, Qirx; Daniel Johns, ASI Solutions; Craig Somerville, Somerville ISNet; Emma Tomlin, Microsoft; and Don Williams, Veeam Software; and the council's Karen Drewitt, Missing Link, named chairwoman ... Adtran said Senior Vice President-Operations Mike Foliano was elected to Quest Forum's executive board for a two-year term ... Small UAV Coalition announced that Gregory Walden, counsel to the drone group, was elected chairman, Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems Stakeholder Consultation Body ... Mitek adds to board Ken Denman, ex-Emotient, which Apple bought in January ... Lobbyist registrations: AT&T, Capitol City Group, effective Oct. 24 ... Newhouse Broadcasting, Miller & Chevalier, effective Nov. 1 ... Slater Technology Fund, Capitol City Group, effective Sept. 1 ... TicketNetwork, JMS Consulting, effective Nov. 15.