Communications Personals
Wilkinson Barker adds former Colorado, Denver, and U.S. official Arthur Ortegon as partner; his experience includes government relations, legal, regulatory, political, community investment and external affairs for telecom, transportation and mass media ... Glen Echo Group hires from House Ways and Means Committee staff Dan Rubin as senior director ... TechNet promotes Cameron Demetre to executive director, California and the Southwest.
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Broadband Forum's Robin Mersh steps down as CEO "to pursue a new challenge outside of the industry"; forum contributor and previous board member Ken Ko rejoins the organization as managing director, and Craig Thomas moves up to vice president-strategic marketing and business development ... KKR promotes to managing directors, effective Jan. 1, among others: Dave Blodgett, Angelique Faustino, Sanjay Kothari and Emil Werr, all for technology, engineering and data; Jake Heller and Stephen Shanley, both for next generation technology but in different locations; and Elizabeth Seeger, public policy and affairs.
NortonLifeLock adding Avira CEO Travis Witteveen and Chief Technology Officer Matthias Ollig to management when its $360 million Avira buy closes in Q1 (see 2012070025) ... Inyo Broadcast taps Steven Smith as executive chairman and for operating committee "as the newly formed television company works toward the closing of its acquisition of 23 TV stations from" Ion, which is being sold to E.W. Scripps (see here); Smith led the former Journal Communications, retiring in 2015 when it was sold, and then was nonexecutive chairman of Journal Media, until it, too, was sold.
On Semiconductor taps Hassane El-Khoury as CEO; he departed as Cypress Semiconductor CEO in April ... Sony/ATV Music Publishing hires Naomi Asher from Wixen Music UK as vice president-neighboring rights, U.K. and international ... Redline Communications appoints Jim Slinowsky, ex-Siemens RuggedCom, as vice president-product line management ... Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., re-elected as chairman, Homeland Security Committee for next Congress.