Communications Personals
Viacom expands role of Colleen Fahey Rush as executive vice president-insights and audience science/chief research officer, Viacom Media Networks ... SES board OKs restructuring, creating SES Video and SES Networks: Ferdinand Kayser, currently SES chief commercial officer, named CEO, SES Video; Steve Collar, now CEO, O3b Networks, moves to CEO, SES Networks, and both report to SES CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh; in addition to those three, SES executive committee is: Chief Financial Officer Padraig McCarthy; Chief Strategy-Development Officer Christophe De Hauwer; Chief Technology Officer Martin Halliwell; Chief Human Resources Officer Evie Roos; and Chief Legal Officer John Purvis, company announced.
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News Corp.'s Jesse Angelo named chief-digital advertising solutions, overseeing ad platform expected to launch later this year; he remains CEO-publisher, New York Post ... LegalShield moves John Long, a senior vice president, to president-network sales and marketing ... NeoPhotonics Chief Financial Officer Ray Wallin resigns, effective May 15, remains as a consultant to the company for three months ... Iconectiv adds international business expert Peter Ford, ex-Cisco, as regional vice president-Europe, Middle East and Africa
President Donald Trump nominating Derek Kan, Lyft, as undersecretary of transportation for policy ... Car Connectivity Consortium elects Mahfuzur Rahman, Samsung Research America, as president ... BlackRock nominates Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins to join the financial firm's board after the annual meeting on May 25.
Incompas elections include: Eric Einhorn, Windstream, as vice chairman; and Dale Schmick, TerraCom Wireless, as treasurer; and on executive committee as at-large members: Grey Humphrey, Spirit Communications; and Alan Katz, Sunesys; and companies elected to the board for 2017-19 are for small category: TerraCom, represented by Schmick; and TSI, Deborah Ward; for medium category: Bandwidth, John Murdock; Global Capacity, Chris Birdsall; Google Fiber, Milo Medin; Sonic Telecom, Dane Jasper; Spirit, Humphrey; and Wave Business, Greg Palser; and for large category: TelePacific Communications, Russ Shipley, association said.