Communications Personals
Nielsen CEO-board member Mitch Barns retiring at year's end, and until then continues running company and "key initiatives -- Total Audience, the Connected System and the efforts to automate and streamline operations"; Chairman James Attwood, Carlyle Group managing director, is named executive chairman and "will assume a more active role" and lead "the search for new leadership" ... At Verizon's Oath, Verizon Digital Media Services hires from Fox Network Groups Ariff Sidi as chief product officer ... Vonage taps Sanjay Macwan, ex-NBCUniversal Media Labs, as senior vice president-enterprise engineering and networks.
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F5 Networks promotes Chad Whalen to executive vice president-worldwide sales ... XG Technology, provider of live video communications for broadcast, entertainment and public safety, promotes Chief Financial Officer/co-founder Roger Branton to CEO and adds him to the board; Gary Cuccio, who was interim CEO, is chairman ... Cinedigm hires Mark Torres, ex-Sony Pictures Entertainment, as vice president-human resources.
Disney moves at ABC Owned Television Stations Marilu Galvez, who was WABC-TV managing editor, to vice president-community relations and development at the station ... Douglas Davis, senior vice president, Intel’s Automated Driving Group, to keynote SMPTE 2018 Symposium Oct. 22, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, on “Safety Today for the Autonomous Tomorrow” ... CTIA adds Daniel O’Brien, HTC, to its board ... Synchronoss Technologies elects Kris Rinne, who retired from AT&T in 2014, to its board; President-CEO Glenn Lurie, also ex-AT&T, notes he worked with her.