Communications Personals
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue names Anne Hazlett, aide on Senate Agriculture Committee, to lead rural development agencies at the department including Rural Utilities Service as assistant to the secretary for rural development ... Broadcast Music Inc. promotes to executive vice presidents Alison Smith for distribution, publisher relations and administration services, and Mike Steinberg, creative and licensing ... At 21st Century Fox, Ed Davis moves to chief product officer, Fox Networks Group Advertising Sales, new position overseeing FNG IP-delivered ad products and services.
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GTT Communications starts divisions, under presidents of the units: Eric Warren, ex-Windstream and TW Telecom, for Enterprise; Jeff Beer moves to lead Carrier; and Martin Ford, who joined GTT through the buy of Hibernia Networks, for Europe, Middle East and Africa; as ex-Chief Revenue Officer Layne Levine leaves to pursue other opportunities ... White Ops hires software executive Sandeep Swadia as CEO; co-founder Michael Tiffany moves to president ... STXfilms promotes Amy Elkins to executive vice president-media and marketing innovation.
New National Emergency Number Association board members: Gary Bell from Wisconsin as north central regional director; and Holly Barkwell from Canada as Canadian regional director; and among directors Monica Million from Colorado is now second vice president ... American Tower board elects Grace Lieblein, who has worked at General Motors, a director ... COPsync names Vice President Wade Powell to the board, from which Brad Powers and Larry Schafran resign ... World Teleport Association elects for three-year board terms: Avi Cohen,MX1;Mitja Lovšin, STN; and Vince Matherne, Encompass Digital Media ... Commercial Drone Alliance names Laura Ponto, Project Wing at X, chairman ... Elected at Marconi Society is optical fiber expert Robert Tkach to move on board to vice chairman.