Communications Personals
Baller Stokes says its Jim Baller, Sean Stokes and Casey Lide join Keller and Heckman as partners, Keller and Heckman says they join telecom practice; Lide tells us that rather than being a combination of the firms, Baller Stokes "is being wound down" ... Teradata board moves Molly Treese to chief legal officer, succeeding Laura Nyquist, retiring; Erica Hausheer, ex-3D Systems, named chief information officer.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
Cirrus Logic's Jason Rhode steps down as CEO and director; board taps President John Forsyth for president-CEO as Rhode remains at the chipmaker as an executive fellow; director David Tupman, Details Lab, advances to chair, succeeding Al Schuele, retiring before the next annual meeting; all other changes effective Jan. 1 ... Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions appoints Stephen Sartwell, ex-L3Harris, senior vice president-program and operations excellence ... Crown Media Family Networks hires Hilary Silverboard, ex-Public Broadcasting Atlanta, for newly created job of senior vice president-brand strategy.
In a pact with Elliott Investment Management, Twitter directors formed an independent committee "to build on the Board’s regular evaluation of Twitter’s leadership and Board structure, evaluate the CEO succession plan, and make recommendations consistent with corporate governance best practices"; board Chair Patrick Pichette led the Management Structure Committee, with directors Jesse Cohn, Egon Durban, Martha Lane Fox, David Rosenblatt and Bret Taylor as members; now, the panel "expressed its confidence in management and recommended that the current structure remain in place: Jack Dorsey remains CEO.
Sinclair hires John Zeigler, ex-YES Network, as chief marketing officer, newly created post ... Meredith promotes at WNEM-TV Bay City, Michigan, Ken Frierson to vice president-general manager ... Captify, the "largest independent holder of search data outside of Google," hires former Comcast executive Brendan Condon for global chief revenue officer ... Red River promotes Sera Gray to chief information officer ... 8x8 advances Germaine Cota to chief accounting officer ... DataTribe, a Fulton, Maryland, cybersecurity and data science firm, promotes John Funge to managing director ... Tray.io general automation platform hires as vice presidents Deborah Silberman, ex-Coupa Software, in global business operations and Brian Mes, ex-Pendo.io, for sales engineering.
In Next Generation 911 Institute election, new board members are Lynne Houserman, Motorola Solutions, for member-at-large (general); and Ron Bloom, Frontier, for consumer telco slot; board picks Peter Beckwith, South Sound 911, as chair; and Angel Arocho, Comcast, for vice chair, and Arocho also reelected for consumer telco position ... Fiserv adds UPS Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Warren to its board.