Communications Personals
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai promotes Patrick Webre to chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, where he had been acting chief ... Disney moves James Pitaro to president-ESPN and co-chair, Disney Media Networks, succeeding John Skipper, who previously said he was leaving (see this section of this publication's Dec. 19 issue) ... Xtera board promotes Keith Henderson to CEO, succeeded by Leigh Frame, ex-Alcatel Submarine Networks, as chief operating officer ... Infoblox taps Hoke Horne, ex-Digital River, as chief financial officer.
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Quantcast hires Meredith Long, ex-Time Inc., as chief revenue officer-North America ... Coriant adds Sandra Krief, ex-Cisco's BroadSoft, as managing director-North America ... Cowen adds to Technology, Media and Telecom equity research team as managing directors Matthew Ramsay, ex-Canaccord Genuity, to cover semiconductors, and Krish Sankar, ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for semiconductor capital equipment and IT hardware.
Raycom Media moves Vice President-General Manager Chris Conroy to that job at KFVS-TV Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and WQWQ-LP Paducah, Kentucky ... Retiring from Hearst Television: Candy Altman, vice president-news, effective in June.