Communications Personals
Retiring from Willkie Farr is Jim Casserly, senior counsel and longtime cable lawyer ... National Association of Television Programming Executives elevates JP Bommel to president-CEO ... Manatt Phelps Media, Technology and Advertising practice now includes Ned Sherman; the co-founder of Digital Media Wire becomes chairman of that firm, which continues working with Mannatt Phelps, which names him counsel and director of the practice's professional services division Manatt Digital ... Univision's Fusion Media Group hires from First Look Media Works' Lynn Oberlander as general counsel, Gizmodo Media Group, effective March 20.
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Panasonic North America promotes 32-year Panasonic veteran Tom Gebhardt, Panasonic Automotive Systems America president since 2012, to chairman-CEO, effective April 1, succeeding Joseph Taylor, retiring ... Cybis board elects Jud Brandt, ex-Bridgewater Associates, CEO ... With H.I.G. Capital buying Xtera, the subsea fiber firm said it's appointed as CEO Douglas Umbers, ex-VT Group, which is now Babcock International; Keith Henderson was named chief operating officer; Robert Richardson appointed chief sales officer; and Jayesh Pankhania, ex-HOC Group, as chief financial officer ... Gary Ignatin, ex-Broadcom, joins Marvell as senior vice president-corporate development ... Synchronoss Technologies names John Frederick, ex-Avid Technology, chief financial officer ... MapR Technologies names Tom Fisher, ex-Oracle, chief technology officer.
To ProQuest from JLL Partners: Robert VanHees as senior vice president-chief financial officer ... Tech expert Udo Eberlein, ex-Auckland Partners, joins executive search firm Morgan Samuels as senior client partner and co-lead, Emerging Products practice ... To Windstream from EarthLink, which the telco recently acquired (see 1702270010), is Olen Scott as vice president-channel sales ... Shutterfly hires Michele Anderson, ex-Activate, as senior vice president-retail ... Rubicon Project adds Khoi Nguyen, ex-OpenX, as vice president-product management for video, new position.
As part of Intelsat getting an investment by SoftBank and combining with OneWeb (see 1702280057), Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler is named CEO of the combined company and OneWeb founder and Executive Chairman Greg Wyler becomes executive chairman of the board ... León Felipe Sánchez Ambía, Fulton & Fulton, named by at-large community as ICANN director, succeeding Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Compass Rose, starting a three-year term Nov. 3 ... Conterra Ultra Broadband board adds Michael Hurley, ex-Lightower.