Communications Personals
Comcast's NBCUniversal promotes NBC's Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta to co-presidents, scripted programming, NBC Entertainment ... With Shaw Communications Chief Financial Officer Vito Culmone leaving, effective May 4, Executive Vice President Trevor English promoted to also become chief financial and corporate development officer ... CenturyLink expands responsibilities on strategic government executive leadership team that sells products to the federal government and some others: team reports to David Young, named regional vice president-strategic government; Scott Barnett named vice president-DOD sales; Seana Gilliland named vice president-program management office.
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Ayla Networks hires: from Flipkart Ashish Agrawal as senior vice president-engineering; Farooq Khan, ex-Arris, to newly created post of vice president-development and operations; from Google Sahir Sait as vice president-product management; and Russ Keveryn, ex-Pace/Arris, for vice president-strategic sales ... PoLTE, using LTE to track mobile and IoT devices, adds ex-T-Mobile executive Ed Chao as chief technology officer ... AccuWeather taps Brian Baker, ex-Disney ABC Television Group, as vice president-product experience ... Collin Gaston, named regional group vice president, Raycom Media, remains vice president-general manager of its WBRC Birmingham ... National Music Publishers’ Association elects Kenny MacPherson, Big Deal Music Group, to board ... Newly elected trustees of America's Public Television Stations: Jeffrey Gilbert, WJP Development, lay delegate for New Hampshire Public Television; Mimi Chapin Gregory, who has worked in banking and international affairs, lay trustee for WGCU Fort Myers, Florida; and Ed Ulman, CEO, Alaska Public Media.
National Wireless Safety Alliance taps for board of governors: Bernard Borghei, Vertical Bridge; Doug Dickinson, Ericsson; Bruce Eades, USA Telecom Insurance Services; Pat Moore, Stainless; Paul Roberts, American Tower; Jose Tarafa, MasTec Network Solutions; and Gary Trent, U.S. Cellular ... PCTel board appoints Cynthia Keith, ex-PwC, as director, succeeding Brian Jackman, retired.