CTIA promotes Jamie Hastings to senior vice president-external and state affairs, new position, and Jim Schuler to vice president-external and state affairs ... T-Mobile elevates Marie Sylla to vice president-external and legislative affairs ... Joining R Street Institute is Sasha Moss, ex-counsel to Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, named technology policy fellow ... AwesomenessTV, multi-platform media company owned by DreamWorks Animation, Hearst and Verizon, hires Samie Kim Falvey, ex-ABC Entertainment, in new position of chief content officer of its unnamed premium content service ... Comcast's NBCUniversal hires Errol Cockfield, ex-Edelman, as senior vice president-MSNBC Communications.
Joining TRUSTe is Hilary Wandall, ex-Merck & Co., as general counsel and chief data governance officer ... Coming to Pryor Cashman is Thomas Vidal, ex-Abrams Garfinkel, as partner, Litigation, Media + Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Technology groups ... Birch Communications appoints Chuck Williams, ex-Culhane Meadows, senior vice president-general counsel ... Huawei promotes David He to president, Huawei Enterprise US ... Zayo hires Jack Waters, ex-Level 3, as chief technology officer and president-Network Solutions, effective Aug. 15 ... Cox Media Group promotes Rob Rohr to Ohio market vice president, succeeding Julia Wallace, who announced her retirement earlier this year.
Vivek Badrinath is stepping down from the Nokia board, effective immediately due to his appointment as CEO for Vodafone's Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific region, leaving the Nokia board with eight members through it 2017 Annual General Meeting ... Gabriel Torres, ex-T-Mobile USA, joins Sprint as president of the New England Region ... Julie Haddon, founder of consulting firm The Marketing Farm, named NFL Media senior vice president-marketing.
Charter Communications Chief Operating Officer John Bickham adds title of president ... Entravision names Michael Holderle, ex-Foster Communications, vice president-Integrated Marketing Solutions, McAllen, Texas ...Tribune Media promotes David Ulmer to chief technology officer, from interim CTO.
CTIA names former consultant Kelly Cole senior vice president-government affairs, effective Aug. 1 ... Cox Enterprises promotes Alexander Taylor to executive vice president-chief operating officer ... AT&T promotes Marvy Moore to vice president-general manager, Georgia and South Carolina ... Promotions at Impact Telecom: President-CEO Bob Beaty adds title of chairman; Doug Funsch becomes chief revenue officer ... Telemundo promotes Eduardo Suñol to vice president-Telemundo News Digital ... Mack Araki departs Sony America corporate communications July 31 after 30-year career at Sony to pursue new interests, may be reached at mack.araki@outlook.com.
Charter Communications elects Kim Crawford Goodman, ex-American Express and Dell, to its board and audit committee ... Frontier Communications named Michelle Wolloff, ex-AT&T and DirecTV, senior vice president-general manager, Southern California Westside territory ... Brightstar names Emer Timmons, ex-BT Group, chief marketing officer and president-strategic sales.
Discovery Communications advertising sales chief Joe Abruzzese to retire at the end of 2016 after 46-year career ... CBS/Lionsgate joint venture Pop names Justin Rosenblatt, ex-CW Network, executive vice president-original programming and development ... Telemundo promotes Lia Silkworth to senior vice president-insights and consumer development ... Ericsson President-CEO Hans Vestberg steps down and leaves board, effective immediately; Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Jan Frykhammar becomes interim CEO ... Lobbyist registrations: Enlighten IT Consulting, Ice Miller Strategies, effective April 13 ... InterDigital, Cascade Strategies, effective July 18.
American Civil Liberties Union adds David Cole, to take leave from Georgetown University Law Center, as national legal director, succeeding Steven Shapiro, retiring ... Disney|ABC Television Group adds John Solaro, ex-Microsoft, as head-user experience and product innovation for digital media, and Roger Tsai, ex-Gracenote, as vice president-digital strategy, business planning and operations for digital media ... Cylance hires John McClurg, ex-Dell, as vice president-Office of Security and Trust, and expands job of Malcolm Harkins to chief security and trust officer ... Altman Vilandrie & Co. promotes Alex Baker to principal, advises the firm’s Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector.
21st Century Fox said Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network Chairman-CEO Roger Ailes resigned; Rupert Murdoch, the overall company's executive chairman, named chairman and acting CEO of those businesses ... Univision Communications adds Diego Rodriguez, ex-FBI, as chief global security officer, new position ... Joining Sprint is Ismat Aziz, ex-Sam’s Club, as senior vice president-human resources, succeeding ex-HR head Sandy Price, retired ... Frontier Communications appoints Leticia Solis, ex-Verizon, as area general manager, Mid-Cities operations territory.
Rapid7 said it promotes Peter Kaes to general counsel and names to board Marc Brown, Microsoft, and Tom Schodorf, ex-Splunk ... Covington adds to Cybersecurity Incident Response team Stephen Surdu, ex-Mandiant, as senior cybersecurity adviser ... Nova, 3D visualization software-as-a-service venture started by DreamWorks Animation, names Seksom Suriyapa, ex-SuccessFactors, chief financial officer/general manager ... VimpelCom hires Dan Chapman, ex-Cameron International, as group chief compliance officer ... Delta Risk adds Chris Hendricks, ex-federal criminal investigator, as vice president-security operations services ... Pure Storage hires Vik Nagjee, ex-Epic, as vice president-chief technology officer, Global Healthcare Solutions ... Feed.fm hires Bill Dube, ex-PR Newswire, as vice president-sales and business development ... Shenandoah Telecommunications board elects Leigh Ann Schultz, MorganFranklin Consulting, as director ... Lobbyist registration: The Recording Academy, Manatt Phelps, effective May 1 ... Alliance of Puerto Rico telecom companies Alianza Puertorriquena de Telecommunications, Drinker Biddle, effective May 16 ... DoCoMo Pacific, Emblem Enterprise Services, effective Jan. 6.