Communications Personals
NCTA's Rita Lewis steps down as senior vice president-government relations, effective June 1, to spend more time with family, remaining as part-time senior adviser-government relations ... Comcast promotes to president-CEO, Comcast Cable Dave Watson; Neil Smit moves to the parent company's vice chairman, effective April 1 and working part time "to develop future technology-oriented business opportunities" ... Justin Cole, ex-FTC, joins CTIA as assistant vice president-public affairs ... Discovery Communications hires Joseph Ambeault, ex-Verizon, as senior vice president-product and technology.
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Comcast's NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises hires Beau Ferrari, ex-Univision Communications, as executive vice president ... TDS board names as vice president-strategy Peter Taft, ex-XO Communications, which Verizon bought (see 1702010031), and company nominates Kim Dixon, FedEx Office, to the board ... Cision becoming a public company through combining with Capitol Acquisition; Cision management led by CEO Kevin Akeroyd and Chief Financial Officer Jack Pearlstein continue running combined company post-transaction, which adds to the board Capitol Chairman-CEO Mark Ein, as vice chairman, and includes Capitol President-CFO Dyson Dryden.
In Nokia separating Mobile Networks into Mobile Networks and Global Services and splitting chief innovation and operating officer organization: Chief Innovation and Operating Officer Marc Rouanne becomes president-Mobile Networks; Executive Vice President-Global Services Igor Leprince goes to president-Services; Chief Operating Officer-Fixed Networks Monika Maurer named group COO; President, Nokia Bell Labs and Chief Technology Officer Marcus Weldon keeps those responsibilities; Chief Strategy Officer Kathrin Buvac takes additional responsibilities for incubation of select new business opportunities; Chief Marketing Officer Barry French assumes additional responsibilities for health, safety, security and environment; and President-Mobile Networks Samih Elhage leaves Nokia to pursue new opportunities and remains on the Group Leadership Team until April 1, when the other changes are effective, and an adviser until May 31, the company announces.
Halock Security Labs promotes equity partners: David Andrew, Governance and Compliance Practice lead; Ryan Bentley, Vulnerability Assessment Practice lead; and Chris Cronin, principal consultant ... TeleQuality Communications adds Steve Dorf, ex-Kansas Fiber Network, as chief operating officer ... Madrona Venture Group additions include Maria Karaivanova, ex-Cloudflare, as principal ... Simulmedia hires Tom Stiles, ex-Viacom, as vice president-sales.
President Donald Trump to nominate Customs and Border Protection Assistant Commissioner, Office of Intelligence David Glawe as homeland security undersecretary-intelligence and analysis ... FCC names Colorado Public Utilities Commissioner Wendy Moser to Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations, filling vacancy left by Minnesota PUC Commissioner Betsy Wergin ... Relm Wireless names as chairman Kyle Cerminara, representing the company's top shareholder, Fundamental Global Investors, succeeding Tim O'Neil, resigned to pursue other opportunities, and adds to board Charles Lanktree, Ryan Turner, John Struble and Michael Dill.