Communications Personals
New to Mintz Technology, Communications & Media Practice as members from Davis Wright are Scott Thompson and Daniel Reing, with former also chair of the section’s Communications Infrastructure Litigation Practice ... Tampa Electric and TECO Peoples Gas add from Duke Energy Mike Sewell as director-federal affairs ... Exiting bankruptcy, subsea cable systems operator Seaborn taps board members Pete Hayes, founder and CEO of Middleburg Venture Partners, for interim CEO; and Don Shassian, ex-Outfront Media and previously Frontier Communications, as interim chief financial officer; ex-CEO Larry Schwartz and former CFO Roger Kuebel leave.
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WarnerMedia hires MBC Group Managing Director-Digital Johannes Larcher as head, HBO Max International, effective in August, leading international rollout and management of direct-to-consumer HBO Max, with 2021 launch in Latin America expected; AT&T promotes Whit Richardson to president, WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks-Latin America ... SkyWater Technology hires its consultant from Riveron Consulting Steve Manko as chief financial officer; former CFO Steve Wold becomes the company’s first chief administrative officer ... NortonLifeLock appoints from eBay Natalie Derse as chief financial officer, succeeding Matthew Brown, ex-interim CFO now returning to chief accounting officer.
At AppLovin mobile games firm, Basil Shikin promoted to chief technology officer; from Machine Zone Tory Valenzuela is chief legal officer and corporate secretary; Keith Kawahata, ex-Wargaming.net, is first head-games; and Deepak Gupta, also ex-Machine Zone, joins as chief revenue officer ... Hearst Television promotes Bruce Barkley to president-general manager, Arkansas' KHBS Fort Smith and KHOG-TV Fayetteville, succeeding Shawn Oswald, moving to those jobs at KETV Omaha (see this section, May 26) ... Joining Boxlight board are Wayne Jackson, ex-Secureworks, and Charles Amos, was CEO of GuideK12, bought by Forecast 5 where he's senior managing director.