Communications Personals
Changes at Ford: Jim Hackett, chairman of Ford Smart Mobility, replaces Mark Fields who is retiring, as president-CEO, effective immediately ... Best Best law firm adds as assistant director-governmental affairs Ana Schwab, who worked on Capitol Hill and for other firms ... Neustar retains Sai Huda, ex-Fidelity National Information Services, as general manager-risk solutions ... SMS Assist adds Taylor Rhodes, ex-Rackspace, as CEO, succeeding founder Mike Rothman, remaining as chairman ... Tanium hires from Facebook Chris Bream as chief technology officer, succeeding in that post co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi.
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Nexstar Media hires from Raycom Media Tracey Rogers as vice president-general manager, WKRN-TV Nashville and associated digital services ... Megaport software defined networking provider moves Belle Lajoie to chief commercial officer ... CBS extends contract of Chairman-CEO-President Les Moonves two years, through June 30, 2021, it said, allowing him to be a senior adviser for an additional five years, with an option of starting a production company under CBS "auspices."
Synacor adds Lisa Donohue, Starcom, to its board ... Technology CEO Council names Steve Mollenkopf, Qualcomm, chair, succeeding Mark Durcan, ex-Micron Technology CEO; Dion Weisler, HP, joins; and it adds Sanjay Mehrotra, who recently succeeded Durcan as Micron CEO-president ... Towerstream adds to board Don MacNeil, EdgeConneX ... Lobbyist registrations: 21st Century Fox and NAB, EFB Advocacy, both effective April 3 ... T-Mobile, Goldstein Policy Solutions, effective April 10.