Communications Personals
Once CenturyLink buys Level 3, acquirer says, Level 3 CEO-President Jeff Storey will join the telco as president-chief operating officer, and he's among the Level 3 directors joining the buyer's board; Glen Post remains CEO of CenturyLink; Storey is expected to succeed Post as CEO effective Jan. 1, 2019; then Post will become executive chairman; directly reporting to Post at closing are executive vice presidents: Stacey Goff, general counsel-chief administrative officer; Sunit Patel, chief financial officer; and Scott Trezise, human resources; Harvey Perry advances to chairman, succeeding William Owens, retired; and Bruce Hanks, who moves up to vice chairman ... Wilkinson Barker adds recently retired CenturyLink Vice President-Federal Policy and Regulatory Affairs Melissa Newman as of counsel.
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Tech lobbyists joining McGuireWoods from Akin Gump: Michael Drobac, drone expert, as senior adviser and to lead McGuireWoods Consulting new Emerging Technologies Team; with senior adviser and a partner in the law firm Gregory Walden; Senior Vice President Amanda Armistead; and Assistant Vice President Casey Duggan ... Sinclair promotes Robert Weisbord to senior vice president-chief operating officer, Sinclair Digital, and J.W. Linkenauger to vice president-advanced advertising support operations.
With Tegna completing spinoff (see 1609070036) of Cars.com, it announces: Dave Lougee advances at Tegna to president-CEO and joins the board; Lougee succeeds in those three positions Gracia Martore, retiring; Victoria Harker, remains as executive vice president-chief financial officer; Lynn Beall adds responsibilities, is executive vice president/chief operating officer-media operations; Anne Bentley remains vice president-chief communications officer; Ed Busby adds responsibilities, is senior vice president-strategy; Todd Mayman remains executive vice president-chief legal and administrative officer; and Jeff Newman still senior vice president-chief human resources officer; and Cars.com board adds Scott Forbes, chairman of other companies, as chairman; and as members Jerri DeVard, also on the ServiceMaster board; Tom Hale, SurveyMonkey; Donald McGovern, ex-PwC; and Greg Revelle, Kohl’s.
Houlihan Lokey adds from Pacific Crest Securities Tom Olivier as managing director-Technology, Media & Telecom Group ... Siklu hires Mike Newcomb, ex-Brocade, as general manager-Americas ... Ziff Davis hires Mitch Galbraith, ex-Funny or Die, as executive vice president-general manager, IGN Entertainment ... CBS promotes Rick Jefferson to vice president-news operations, CBS News ... PasswordPing names Josh Horwitz, founder of Boulder Logic, co-founder and chief operating officer.
At Broadcast Music Inc., Michael Fiorile, Dispatch Printing/Broadcast, moves up to chairman, succeeding Paul Karpowicz, Meredith Local Media Group, elected presiding director ... Arnaud de Puyfontaine named executive chairman of Telecom Italia, and remains CEO of the telecom company's top shareholder Vivendi.