Communications Personals
FairPoint Communications names Mike Reed state president-Vermont, succeeding Beth Fastiggi, hired by the state's government as commissioner, Department of Human Resources; Reed remains the telco's state president-Maine ... Tessco Technologies reorganizes sales force, combining commercial sales and product teams under Senior Vice President Charles Kriete, now for commercial sales, product marketing and supply chain, and combines retail sales and product teams under Liz Robinson, promoted to senior vice president-retail sales and product marketing; Senior Vice President-Sales Pete Peterson resigns for personal reasons.
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Globecast adds Ken Fuller, ex-Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, as chief technology officer-Globecast Americas ... Joining Silver Spring Networks: Catriona Fallon, ex-Marin Software, as chief financial officer, succeeding Ken Gianella, interim CFO who's now senior vice president-finance and treasurer ... IHS Markit adds from Moody's Lisa Simone Westlake as executive vice president-chief human resources officer, joining the Office of the CEO ... From Global Payments, USA Technologies appoints Priyanka Singh chief financial officer, succeeding interim CFO Leland Maxwell, continuing with USAT in a senior finance role.
Spireon elevates connected car expert Reggie Ponsford to senior vice president-sales, Automotive Solutions group ... Optanix names Wasif Awan, ex-Intralinks, as senior vice president-engineering and development ... SHIFTMobility hires Jeff Lagges, ex-AllData/AutoZone, as chief sales officer ... Nexstar Media advances Jim Dodrill to vice president-general manager, WBOY-TV Clarksburg, West Virginia, and associated digital services ... Meredith names Les Vann vice president-general manager, WHNS Greenville, South Carolina, effective April 10.
As Ericsson said it's realigning its business strategy (see 1703280037), it forms one executive team as of April 1, with: President-CEO Börje Ekholm; moves to senior vice presidents: for business area networks, Fredrik Jejdling; for business area managed services, Peter Laurin; for business area digital services, Ulf Ewaldsson; for market area North America, Rima Qureshi; for market area Middle East and Africa, Rafiah Ibrahim; for market area Northeast Asia, Chris Houghton; for Southeast Asia, Oceania and India, Nunzio Mirtillo; for technology and emerging business, Niklas Heuveldop, for finance and common functions, Carl Mellander; and for human resources, MajBritt Arfert; remaining senior vice presidents: marketing and communications, Helena Norrman; sustainability and corporate responsibility, Elaine Weidman-Grunewald; legal affairs, Nina Macpherson; still as advisers to Ekholm, executive vice presidents: Jan Frykhammar and Magnus Mandersson; and leaving the executive leadership team: Per Borgklint, Anders Lindblad, Jean-Philippe Poirault and Charlotta Sund.
Stream Data Centers elevates Chris Kincaid to senior vice president-design and construction .. Avnet promotes Lou Lutostanski to vice president-IoT ... Competitive Telecoms Group adds Larry Fisher, ex-CoreSite and QTS, as vice president-consulting services ... FTE Networks hires William Leonard, ex-Level 3, as vice president-sales, Central and Eastern regions ... Society of Broadcast Engineers President Jerry Massey names Jason Ornellas, CBS Radio, to fill open position on SBE board of Mark Simpson, resigned to focus on new position at Townsquare Media, which recently promoted him to vice president-engineering; and Executive Committee ratifies the appointment for Ornellas to fill Simpson's unexpired term that ends in fall 2018.
Charter Communications said Monday it held last week the first meeting of its External Diversity and Inclusion Council, which has: Marc Morial, National Urban League, as chairman; plus Rohini Anand, Sodexo; Faith Bautista, National Diversity Coalition; Janeen Comenote, National Urban Indian Family Coalition; Carol Glazer, National Organization on Disability; Kim Keenan, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council; Ken Lee, Asian Pacific American Advocates; Janet Murguía, National Council of La Raza; Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Clifford Stanley, EGA Group; Brent Wilkes, League of United Latin American Citizens; and John Yang, Asian Americans Advancing Justice; and two more members to be named later ... Raimund Genes, 54, Trend Micro chief technology officer, died of a heart attack Friday at his family home in Germany ... Lobbyist registration: Digital Reasoning, Appo-G, effective Feb. 23.