Turner Broadcasting promotions to senior vice president: Andrea Ching for CNN and Turner digital ad sales marketing and promotions, new position; Jeff Collins for CNN ad sales; and Michael Strober for Turner Entertainment ad sales … Meredith Corp. hires Jon Werther, ex-Simulmedia, as chief strategy officer … Frontier Communications Chief Operating Officer Daniel McCarthy adds title of president … Dial Global names Michael Schreck senior vice president and director of corporate sports.
Librarian of Congress names Suzanne Barnett, judge in King County, Wash., as chief copyright royalty judge and Copyright Royalty Board head, effective May 20 and succeeding James Sledge … Richard Loomis promoted to senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Disney channels worldwide, new position … Lobbyist Registrations: AT&T, Purple Advocacy, effective March 14 … Application Developers Alliance, Brownstein Hyatt, effective March 19 … Rackspace Hosting, JTM Consulting, effective March 1.
Nokia Siemens Networks hires Ken Wirth, ex-Alcatel Lucent, as head of customer operations for North and Latin America, effective April 23 … Neustar hires Jonathan Coombes, ex-Rackspace Hosting, as chief information security officer … Payfone, payment processing service whose backers include Verizon and Rogers Communications, hires Paul Tocatlian, ex-Minerva Networks, as vice president of engineering … Arbitron Chief Financial Officer Richard Surratt to leave job for personal reasons May 11, be replaced on interim basis by Chief Operating Officer Sean Creamer … Eutelsat names Jean-Louis Robin, ex-TDF, human resources director, replacing Izy Béhar, retiring.
Todd Bertoson, ex-Senate Commerce Committee, hired by SNR Denton as senior managing director-public policy and regulation practice … MPAA promotions: Named senior vice president and associate general counsel are Linda Kinney in Washington office and Dan Robbins in Los Angeles office, where Karen Thorland becomes senior vice president and global content protection counsel and Kelly McMahon is named vice president and corporate counsel; Ben Sheffner promoted to vice president of legal affairs, moving to Washington office … Dish Network names James Moorhead, ex-Procter & Gamble, chief marketing officer … Samsung Electronics America hires Tod Pike, ex-Canon USA, as senior vice president responsible for Enterprise Business division.
Video network company IneoQuest Technologies hires Rick Ford, ex-BigBand, as senior vice president-worldwide sales … Cable maker Atlona hires Robert Colaizzi as chief financial officer … National Cable Television Cooperative changes: Judy Meyka, ex-consultant, hired as executive vice president-programming; Chief Financial Officer Corey McCarthy adds title of senior vice president for business development, new position; Frank Hughes named senior vice president of member services; Jeff Nourse, senior vice president of legal affairs, adds responsibility for regulatory oversight … Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing promotes Ken Leonardo to vice president-marketing.
CEA promotes Laurie Lutz to vice president, CES operations … Neustar adds Mark Greene, Fair Isaac Corp., to board … Lobbyist Registrations: Motorola Mobility, OB-C Group, effective March 1.
FCC names William Levis, Colorado consumer counsel, to USF Federal-State Joint Board, replacing Simon ffitch, state of Washington … Alliance for Women in Media new directors: Cyndee Everman, Time Warner Cable; Janet Noll, RFD-TV; Christine Travaglini, Christal Radio, Nicol Turner-Lee, NAMIC.
Changes on Level 3’s board: Steven Clontz, ex-Global Crossing until it was acquired last year by Level 3, added, replacing Lee Theng Kiat, Temasek Holdings; joining is Kevin Chilton, ex-U.S. Air Force … Charles Stewart, ex-office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., joins office of Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., as communications director.
Charter names Jonathan Hargis executive vice president and chief marketing officer … Kunimasa Suzuki appointed president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications … Julian Lighton named Neustar senior vice president of strategy and corporate development.
Senate Judiciary spokeswoman Erica Chabot named legislative director to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. … Ken Kraft joins Cox Business as vice president-marketing … Jonathan Hargis, ex-Cablevision, will join Charter Communications April 9 as executive vice president and chief marketing officer … Lobbyist Registrations: Time Warner Cable, Iverson Government Relations, effective March 1.