Communications Personals
Chairman Ajit Pai moving Media Bureau front office Legal Adviser Alexander Sanjenis to his acting media advisor, succeeding Alison Nemeth Steger, departing FCC (see 1902140012) ... Software & Information Industry Association promotes Carl Schonander to senior vice president-global public policy and head, Public Policy and Advocacy Division, succeeding Senior Vice President-Public Policy Mark MacCarthy, retiring and doing research as planned (see this section of the Jan. 7 issue).
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Association of American Publishers appoints Kelly Denson, ex-Discovery, senior director-education policy and programs ... Patterson Belknap adds Barbara Mullin, ex-Akin Gump, as special counsel-patent litigation ... Sage Communications hires Susan Milich, ex-Government Technology Services, as senior vice president-government services.
In acquiring stations from United Communications (see 1902080057), Gray Television moves in New York Eric Krebs to general manager, WWNY-TV Carthage and WNYF-CD Watertown and in Mankato, Minnesota, adds general manager responsibilities for KEYC-TV General Sales Manager Ed Woloszyn; moves effective March 1, when Gray runs the stations "subject to United’s ultimate control, under a standard pre-closing operating agreement."
RCN, Grande and Wave promote to vice president-business solutions Joe Torraca, Eastern Region; Ted White, Central Region; and David Lampkin, Western Region; for commercial product Glenn Calafati and for business sales operations Gus Chimos; working with business team are Chief Legal Counsel Bree Urban and Vice President-Finance John Mark Duncan ... IBM elects Michelle Howard, George Washington University, to board ... Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics name to Silicon Integration Initiative board, respectively, Udi Landen and Seungbum Ko.