Communications Personals
CBS Entertainment President Glenn Geller stepping down from that job, and company says they're talking about a production deal with CBS Television Studios; also at the Entertainment division, Kelly Kahl moves up to president; and creative executive Thom Sherman named senior executive vice president-programming ... Telephone and Data Systems moves up James Butman to succeed retiring TDS Telecom President-CEO David Wittwer, effective at year's end; Wittwer remains on the parent company's board ... Kroll appoints Keith Wojcieszek, ex-Secret Service Cyber Intelligence Section, as associate managing director-Cyber Security and Investigations practice.
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Intel board promotes corporate officers: Navin Shenoy to executive vice president, and recently named general manager, Data Center Group; Gregory Bryant to senior vice president and general manager, Client Computing Group, and now is on the management committee, on which Shenoy sits; and Sandra Rivera, also now on the management committee, to senior vice president and general manager, Network Platforms Group ... Discovery Communications names vice presidents: Lisa Kus moves up, for client and brand partnerships; Evan Mason elevated for client solutions; Jane Mylan advanced for ad sales; and Christina Carey Dunleavy, ex-NBCUniversal, hired for ad sales marketing.
Deutsche Bank adds from Jefferies Tommaso Zanobini as managing director/global head-financial technology ... Joining D.A. Davidson, Peter Heckmann, ex-Avondale Partners, as senior analyst, focusing on financial technology and vertical software sectors ... Ericsson moves Erik Ekudden to group chief technology officer/head-technology and architecture, effective July 1 ... With Cisco completing buy of MindMeld artificial intelligence company for about $125 million, MindMeld team joins Cloud Collaboration group under Jens Meggers, senior vice president-general manager.
President Donald Trump sends to Senate nomination of Richard Ashooh, University System of New Hampshire, to be assistant secretary of commerce for export administration ... Lobbyist registration: Federated Wireless, BGR Government Affairs, effective April 15.