Comcast hires Ingrid Sanchez Graham, ex-Discovery Networks Latin America/USH, as senior vice president-creative operations, NBCUniversal's Telemundo ... Atlantic Broadband promotes Debbie Eblen to vice president-general manager, South Carolina region ... Pegasus TransTech hires Mark Spicer, ex-Rand McNally, as vice president-integrated solutions, new position reporting to CEO Frank Adelman ... ProQuest names Janet Hogan, ex-Oshkosh Corp., to lead its Global Human Resources organization ... Remitly hires Karim Meghji, ex-buuteeq, as chief product officer; co-founder Josh Hug moves to chief operating officer ... Tribune Media appoints Peter Kern, InterMedia Partners, to board, succeeding Michael Kreger, resigned.

Sharp Corp. adds to duties of Doug Albregts, who is named president-CEO, Sharp Electronics Corp., which manages Americas business; he succeeds Toshiyuki Osawa, and Albregts remains president, Sharp Imaging and Information Co. of America, which manages business-to-business operations ... LifeLock opens its first Washington, D.C., office with Kimberly Allman, ex-Corporation for National and Community Service, as vice president-government affairs and corporate social responsibility, leading LifeLock government affairs, among other initiatives ... USConnect Holdings promotes Deborah Rand to permanent CEO, USConnect Services and its seven properties ... Mishcon de Reya law firm names Joe Hancock, cybersecurity expert, cybersecurity lead ... Infoblox hires Bill McCarthy, ex-Cisco, as executive vice president-worldwide field operations.

Board election results at NG911 Institute: Mary Boyd, West Safety Systems, reelected member-at-large; also reelected in the Consumer Telecommunications Company category were Angel Arocho, Comcast, Donald Brittingham, Verizon, and Joe Marx, AT&T; new member-at-large is Lynn Shapiro Starr, Motorola Solutions ... Encompass Digital Media names Barrie Woolston, ex-Arqiva, to new position of chief commercial officer ... Calix said Bernd Hesse, founder of NG-PON2 Forum, joined the company as senior director-technology development ... Lionsgate names Gisela Asimus-Minnbergh, ex-Endemol, to newly created position of vice president-alternative programming sales ... Block Communications promotes Keith Wilkowski, former Lucas County, Ohio, commissioner, to director-legal and governmental affairs ... LeEco hires Ralph Leung, ex-Morgan Stanley, as senior vice president, managing director and head-corporate finance and development, North America, responsible for overseeing mergers and acquisitions, strategic and venture investments and managing all capital markets and fundraising activities ... Former Microsoft technology and sales executives Mike Rocco and Jim Dietrich form 3Cloud, a technology consulting firm to leverage IoT deployments through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Cox Enterprises hires Juliette Pryor, ex-US Foods, as senior vice president-general counsel-corporate secretary, succeeding Shauna Muhl, retiring at year's end ... CBS Television Studios starts unscripted programming department that includes linear, streaming and digital, naming reality programming producer/executive Ghen Maynard, ex-CBS, senior executive vice president-alternative programming, new position ... Level 3 promotes Andrew Dugan to chief technology officer and Atilla Tinic to chief information officer ... Kate Tummarello, ex-Politico and Warren Communications News, now at Electronic Frontier Foundation as writer, Activism Team, working on surveillance issues ... Harland Clarke Holdings names Chief Information Security Officer Joe Filer also chief privacy officer.

Pine Street Strategies hires include Lara Cole, ex-NCTA, as partner working on technology issues ... Airborne Wireless Network hires pilot/instructor Jason de Mos as vice president-business development and aviation compliance ... Disney promotes Jamila Hunter to senior vice president, ABC Comedy, at ABC Entertainment ... Lobbyist registrations: Verizon, Jones Group International, effective Oct. 1 ... Data aggregation and analytics firm Yodlee, on behalf of itself, effective Oct. 3.

WilmerHale hires as partner, effective in November, Alejandro Mayorkas, departing deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security; Undersecretary for Management Russ Deyo named acting deputy secretary, effective Oct. 29 ... ComScore early employee Dan Hess returns as head-digital audience and advertising products ... 21st Century Fox hires Brendan Ripp, ex-Time Inc., as executive vice president-National Geographic sales and partnerships, Fox Networks Group, new position ... Raycom names Erik Schrader, ex-WIAT Birmingham, Alabama, vice president-general manager, WOIO Shaker Heights and WUAB Lorain, both in Ohio.

Time Warner's Turner promotes Angel Annussek and Lesley Goldman to new posts of senior vice president-development and original programming, truTV ... Weather Co. hires Jordan Bitterman, ex-Mindshare, as chief marketing officer ... Netflix hires Bela Bajaria, ex-Universal Television, as vice president-content, leading team focused on TV and film licensing from major U.S. studios, and co-production relationships with major U.S. networks, effective Nov. 1 ... Fuze hires Laurie Harrison, ex-Shutterstock, as general counsel ... Invincea appoints Christopher Day, ex-Packet Forensics, chief information security officer ... Rapid7 ups Andrew Burton to chief operating officer, new position ... Coming to Crown Media is Penny Perry, from Larry Levinson Productions, in newly created position of vice president-casting.

Television Music License Committee selects Janet McHugh, ex-Sinclair, to be executive director, succeeding Willard Hoyt, retired ... McDonald Hopkins names Dominic Paluzzi co-chairman, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group ... Joining Discovery Communications is Gunnar Wiedenfels, from ProSiebenSat.1 Media, as chief financial officer, effective about April 1, succeeding Andrew Warren, who the company said in February would leave at year's end and now will extend his contract ... A+E Networks elevates Paul Buccieri to president-A+E Studios & A+E Networks Portfolio Group ... Joining Center for the Advancement of Science in Space is Randy Giles, ex-Bell Labs and an optical technologies expert, as chief scientist.

Comcast hires Luis Rosero, ex-Toyota Motor North America, as vice president-government affairs, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises ... Neustar hires Nick Hulse, ex-Boingo Wireless, as chief revenue officer ... Simmons Research adds Steven Millman, ex-comScore, as chief scientist; Alan Resneck, ex-AlphaImpactRx, as chief financial officer; Pyeush Gurha, ex-Symphony Advanced Media, as chief technology officer; and Bill Harvey, media research expert, as strategic consultant ... 21st Century Fox names Neal Scarbrough, ex-New England Sports Network, executive editor, new position, and Gabe Spitzer, producer and director, executive producer-original programming and branded content, both at Fox Sports.

Alion Science and Technology adds Christopher Zember, ex-DOD think tank Center for Technology and National Security Policy, as chief technology officer ... Ericsson, moving chief HR officer to Sweden, said Senior Vice President-Chief HR Officer Bina Chaurasia, based in California, resigns effective Nov. 15, when MajBritt Arfert becomes acting chief HR officer ... Cognizant Technology Solutions moves Raj Mehta to president, succeeding Gordon Coburn, resigned ... Microsoft starts Microsoft AI and Research Group, moving computer scientist Harry Shum to lead it; group is joined by Information Platform, Cortana and Bing, and Ambient Computing and Robotics teams led by David Ku, Derrick Connell and Vijay Mital, respectively.