Communications Personals
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., advances Heather Hutt to state director; hires Deanne Millison, ex-city of Chicago, as legislative director, and Meaghan Lynch, ex-aide to Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., as press secretary ... WWE names Susan Levison, ex-CBS Television Studios, senior vice president and head, WWE Studios ... Strategic Mobility Group promotes Christine Pearson to operations manager ... Webedia appoints Matthew Wurst, ex-360i, as managing director-U.S.
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With regulatory OK for Renesas/IDT, appointments include IDT Executive Vice President-Global Operations and Chief Technology Officer Sailesh Chittipeddi to IDT CEO-president and Renesas executive vice president; Renasas Executive Vice Presidents Yoshikazu Yokota and Necip Sayiner retire, with Yokat a fellow; Renasas Senior Vice President Michael Hannawald retires; Renasas Senior Vice President Hiroto Nitta moves to vice president, broad-based marketing division; IDT Senior Vice President Chris Allexandre to head sales, industrial solution business; and Renasas Senior Vice President Roger Wendelken to head broad-based MCU business.
Cygilan taps Rob Scott, ex-Bradford Networks, as president-CEO ... TBS and TNT name Kristina Edwards, ex-Facebook, vice president-unscripted series ... Somos appoints Kathleen Abernathy, ex-Frontier Communications and ex-FCC, to board.
Google's first members of Advanced Technology External Advisory Council: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University; Bubacarr Bah, Stellenbosch University; De Kai, Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute; Dyan Gibbens, Trumbull; Joanna Bryson, University of Bath; Kay Coles James, Heritage Foundation; Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford; and William Burns, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.