Communications Personals
Spectrum Co ATSC 3.0 spectrum consortium founded by Sinclair and Nexstar hires John Hane, ex-Pillsbury Winthrop, as president ... FCC Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force Chief of Staff Thom Parisi leaving agency to return to private sector ... Moses & Singer expands Intellectual Property practice, naming as partners Toby Butterfield from Frankfurt Kurnit and Gregory Shatan from Bortstein Legal Group ... CTA promotes Jean Foster to senior vice president-marketing and communications, new post ... Ribbon Communications moves Tony Scarfo to executive vice president-products and research and development; John McCready, who had that job and was chief strategy officer, remains in latter post; Scarfo left predecessor firm Sonus in 2016 and was doing consulting.
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Ericsson starts Business Area Emerging business with initial focus on IoT and the cloud and also over time to examine 5G issues, hiring Åsa Tamsons from McKinsey as senior vice president/head of that business, effective April 1; marketing and communications and sustainability and public affairs become Group Function Marketing & Corporate Relations, headed by Helena Norrman, currently head of group function marketing and communications; Business Area Digital Services head Ulf Ewaldsson steps down, named adviser to CEO Börje Ekholm; Ewaldsson succeeded on acting basis by the company's Jan Karlsson; and Group Function Sustainability & Public Affairs Head Elaine Weidman-Grunewald decides to leave company to pursue other opportunities.
Intel promotes Leslie Culbertson to executive vice president/general manager, Intel Product Assurance and Security Group; Ann Kelleher to senior vice president, Technology and Manufacturing Group; Michael Mayberry to senior vice president-chief technology officer, and Matthew Smith to senior vice president-chief human resources officer ... Navigant, adding Comprehensive Applied Security Solutions, names from that cybersecurity firm: Robert Olsen as director; Matthew Voss, managing consultant; Christopher Yates, senior consultant; Tim Peroutka, analyst; Matthew Flora, consultant; and Chloe Pfander, marketing coordinator.
Elected at American Cable Association are Robert Wieand, Service Electric Cablevision, to Executive Committee as treasurer; and to board Shawn Beqaj, Armstrong Utilities, and Mike Bowker, Cable One; Wieand moved up on the board to succeed Armstrong's Bryan Cipoletti, who recently moved within the company to president, Guardian Protection Services ... Tribune Media says director Ross Levinsohn will take a leave of absence; Tronc had said Levinsohn, Los Angeles Times publisher-CEO, agreed to take an unpaid leave and the company hired a law firm to review allegations about his behavior; Tribune board member Laura Walker, New York Public Radio, named to Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.