Communications Personals
Morgan Lewis adds David Plotinsky, ex-DOJ’s Foreign Investment Review Section, as partner, working on national security, telecom and transactions subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. ... Life360 appoints Kirsten Daru as general counsel-chief privacy officer; she was general counsel of Tile, which Life360 recently acquired.
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Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings complete the deal involving Televisa’s media content and production assets plus Univision (see 2202010080), calling the new company TelevisaUnivision, where Wade Davis is CEO, Alfonso de Angoitia becomes executive chairman and Marcelo Claure is vice chairman; others on the board are Emilio Azcarraga, Bernardo Gomez, Michel Combes, Gisel Ruiz, Oscar Munoz, MC Gonzalez Noguera, Eric Zinterhofer and Jeff Sine; plus Televisa can pick two more directors.
Sinclair promotions include: at Sinclair Broadcast Group, Brian Bark to executive vice president-chief information officer; William Bell to senior vice president and head-distribution and network relations; and Justin Bray to senior vice president-treasurer; and at Diamond Sports Group, Timothy Ivy to senior vice president-programming and digital; Matt Blanock to vice president-promotions and marketing; and Steven Hunt to assistant vice president of distribution sales and operations; others promoted are listed here and will be in this section of a future issue of this publication.
Cisco announces Gerri Elliott to retire as executive vice president-chief customer and partner officer, stays in her current role until May 1, when Jeff Sharritts, currently senior vice president-Americas organization, succeeds her ... Crown Media appoints Julia Rao, ex-Guitar Center, as senior vice president-finance ... Electronic Arts hires Microsoft’s Chris Suh as chief financial officer, effective March 1, replacing Blake Jorgensen, stepping down, but remaining with the company until summer.
Guerrilla RF, 5G chips supplier to wireless OEMs, announces Qorvo’s Kellie Chong as chief business officer, newly created role ... GSMA board elects Telefonica CEO Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete chair for term that begins immediately and runs through December; Orange CEO Stephane Richard vacates the role after three years ... Chipmaker Skyworks Solutions adds CDK Global CFO Eric Guerin, also ex-Corning, to its board.