Communications Personals
Recording Academy moves up Kelley Purcell to vice president-membership and industry relations ... In Alaska Communications Systems' planned sale to an affiliate of Macquarie Capital and GCM Grosvenor, ACS spokesperson tells us the plan is to keep employees and executives; they include President-CEO Bill Bishop, Chief Financial Officer Laurie Butcher, Senior Vice President-Legal, Regulatory and Government Affairs Leonard Steinberg and Senior Vice President-Operations and People Matters Diedre Williams; the cash deal, worth about $300 million, would take the telco private and is expected to close in 2021's second half (see 2011050054).
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Axis hires lead underwriters on its U.S. Cyber and Technology team: Ashley Sales, ex-AIG, now Southeast regional underwriting manager; Jonah Papesh from Axa, is for West Coast; and Eric Allen from Chubb is in New York; insurer adds senior underwriters to U.S. Cyber and Technology team: based in Chicago are both Nina Pappas from Chubb and departing Ironshore Insurance Matthew Jeske, while Melissa Steinmetz, formerly at Epic Insurance, works in Los Angeles ... Windstream names Rob Shanahan, ex-Lightower Fiber Networks, to board of managers.
New York State Broadcasters Association elects officers and new members to board for 2021: Chairperson Karen Carey, Townsquare Media; Vice Chairperson (TV) Amy Collins, from WSTM-TV Syracuse and other area stations; Vice Chairman (Radio) Roberto Yanez, Univision New York Local Media; Secretary Chris Musial, WBBZ-TV Springville, New York; Treasurer Alan Bishop, Finger Lakes Radio Group and Chadwick Bay Broadcasting; and new directors Ron deCastro, WBLS(FM) among other radio stations in New York City; Bart Feder; WPIX New York City; Chris Oliviero, Entercom; Katelin Tinley, Cox Media Group; Jim Riley, WGRF(FM) Buffalo and other radio stations there.