Communications Personals
Takatoshi Tsujimura of Konica Minolta becomes Society for Information Display president, succeeding Helge Seetzen, TandemLaunch, whose two-year term expires ... Dish Network hires William Beckwith, ex-FCC Public Safety Bureau, as director-wireless regulatory affairs ... Perkins Coie adds Stephen Ferruolo, ex-University of San Diego School of Law dean, as partner, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice; the life sciences lawyer also works on technology issues.
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In Internet Society board elections, newly chosen are Maimouna Diop, Sonatel, elected by chapters; Ted Hardie, Google, tapped by organization members; George Sadowsky, retired from Global Internet Policy Initiative, also picked by chapters; Fastly's Laura Thomson, by Internet Engineering Task Force; and Heather West from Mozilla appointed by directors to fill vacancy created by resignation of Mieke van Heesewijk; all new appointees but West have a three-year term; hers is a year.
Quitting News Corp. board, James Murdoch cites "disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions" ... Affinitiv names from Rackspace Sid Nair CEO and to the board; Steve Anderson, AutoLoop founder, is chairman.