Communications Personals
After Disney acquires much of 21st Century Fox, the remaining Fox appoints from AMC Charlie Collier as CEO-entertainment; Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen-CEOs, Fox Television Group, stay in roles until deal's close ... Viacom taps Lars Silberbauer, ex-Lego, as MTV Digital Studios senior vice president ... Disney Television Animation promotes to vice presidents Jay Francis, current series and diversity, and Angi Dyste, production and artist management ... Five9 hires Ryan Kam, ex-Salesforce, as chief marketing officer.
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In restructuring following QualTek’s acquisition of Velocitel and Site Safe assets from Velocitel dba FDH Velocitel, FDH Infrastructure Services announces leadership, including Chief Financial Officer Eric Redd; Chief Engineer Dennis Abel; and Vice Presidents Ladson Brearley, Amir Rakha and Gregg Fehrman for, respectively, commercial management, foundations infrastructure, and field operations.
Richard Parsons resigns from the CBS board, including as interim chairman, citing health reasons; Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive Software, assumes that interim post ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and its International Society of Broadband Experts elect board members including Meena Soleiman, Comcast, treasurer, and Steve Williams, Charter, as secretary.
Correction: The newly elected Next Generation 911 Institute directors are April Heinze, Ndigital, vice chair, and board members Eric Hagerson, T-Mobile, and Chris Freeman, Barren-Metcalfe Emergency Communications Center (see this section of the Oct. 19 issue).