Communications Personals
FCC Chairman Ajit Pa moves special counsel Nirali Patel to wireline adviser, replacing Jay Schwarz, who returns to Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis; Preston Wise, from Wireline Bureau, joins Pai’s office as acting special counsel … Google hires Julie Kearney, ex-CTA, as head-regulatory affairs, Loon … Palo Alto Networks names Amit Singh, from Google, president, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Mark Anderson … Somos promotes Mary Retka to vice president-industry relations.
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Meredith promotes Todd Brown to senior vice president-chief revenue officer, Meredith Local Media Group and Kevin James to vice president-general manager, KPHO-TV and KTVK, both Phoenix, replacing Ed Munson, who retired in September (see 1807100033">1807100033) ... NBCUniversal promotes Laura Molen and Mark Marshall to president-advertising sales and partnerships; Mike Rosen, executive vice president-advanced advertising and platform sales, and Scott Schiller, executive vice president and general manager-marketing, departing.
AMC Networks appoints Frank Biondi, WaterView Advisors, to board … Siemens Foundation elects Raj Batra, Siemens USA Digital Factory, to board … CyberGym adds Frank Cilluffo, Auburn University McCrary Institute, to board … Metawave appoints Karen Francis, ex-AcademixDirect, to board.