C-SPAN promotes Richard Weinstein to vice president-digital media, and he is succeeded in last position by Ben O'Connell, promoted to managing editor, while Robert Browning, Purdue University professor, moves to executive director, C-SPAN archives ... Returning to Bartko Zankel is Chuck La Bella, ex-DOJ Fraud Section, as of counsel, working on several issues including privacy ... Library of Congress adds Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at University of Southampton, England, as Kluge Center Kluge chair in Technology and Society ... Fusion hires John Hendler, ex-Windstream, as senior vice president-sales ... MFour Mobile Research hires Mike Boehm, ex-Los Angeles Times, as director-communications ... ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg to keynote NAB Show's Satellite Industry Forum April 19, 1 p.m., Room S225, Las Vegas Convention Center ... Groupon, following $250 million investment from Atairos, adds to board the investment firm's Michael Angelakis, ex-chief financial officer of Comcast, which now may work with Groupon ... FTE Networks adds to board Patrick O'Hare, ZenFi Networks ... Whitepages adds to board Whitney Bouck, HelloSign ... Lobbyist registration: News Corp., registering on behalf of itself, effective April 1.
CTA promotes to vice presidents Kara Dickerson for strategic partnerships and conferences, Ellen Savage, membership programs, and Tyler Suiters, communications ... Samsung Electronics America promotes to senior directors Steve Merlis, for government relations, and Megan Pollock, strategic communications ... Hunton & Williams starts Cyber and Physical Security Task Force, which is led by global privacy and cybersecurity head Lisa Sotto, cybersecurity partner Paul Tiao and energy partner Kevin Jones ... Marvell Technology CEO Sehat Sutardja and President Weili Dai leave jobs and remain on board, with Sutardja continuing as chairman; Marvell said it has started Interim Office of the Chief Executive headed by interim co-CEOs Executive Vice President, Smart Networked Devices and Solutions Business Group Maya Strelar-Migotti and Executive Vice President, Storage Business Group Pantelis Alexopoulos; other members of the office are Chief Technology Officer Zining Wu, Interim Chief Financial Officer David Eichler, Senior Vice President-General Counsel Tom Savage and Vice President-Global Human Resources William Valle.
Disney Chief Operating Officer Thomas Staggs leaving that job, effective May 6, but will remain as a special adviser to CEO Robert Iger through the fiscal year ... Univision Communications starts Corporate Social Responsibility Council, being led by Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, executive vice president-government & corporate affairs, and Chad Boettcher, senior vice president-social impact; they also co-chair external advisory board to the council; and at the company, Steven Levine named vice president-corporate social responsibility, new position, and Ron Estrada expands role to vice president-national community empowerment ... Transparent Media Partners hires Eric Bader, ex-RadiumOne, to oversee operations ... Nexstar promotes Ward Huey to vice president-general manager, KETK-TV Jacksonville, Texas, associated digital properties and overseeing joint operating agreement with White Knight Broadcasting for stations including KFXK-TV Longview.
Baller Herbst law firm changes name to Baller Stokes with Bradley Hagen hiring Adrian Herbst, ex-partner, as member, and his daughter, Leslie Saporito, ex-associate ... National Association of Counties hires Linda Langston, resigning as Linn County, Iowa, supervisor, as director-strategic relations, effective April 18; she previously was president of the group ... Sprint hires former Verizon Wireless executives Pat Devlin as president, Northeast area, and Mariano Legaz as chief procurement officer ... Comcast hires Mara Arakelian, ex-Bobo Producciones, as senior vice president-talent management, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, succeeding Mario Ruiz, recently promoted (see 1603280031) ... Tessco Technologies CEO Robert Barnhill will become executive chairman after a new CEO is hired ... Lobbyist registrations: Ligado Networks, registering on behalf of itself, effective Feb. 16 ... Pro Data Key, a firm focused on mesh wireless access control products and cloud services, JM Burkman & Associates, effective March 22 ... Smartronix, IT solutions provider, Cornerstone Government Affairs, effective Feb. 1.
Visteon names Corporate Controller William Robertson to serve as interim chief financial officer until a permanent replacement is hired for Jeff Stafeil, who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities ... Chinese e-commerce merchant 58.com promotes Hongyu Xing to chief technology officer.
TruConnect Communications, prepaid mobile service provider, promotes Robert Yap to president ... Nexstar Broadcasting promoted Andy Miller to director-local content development ... Brightcove promotes Mark Blair to vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa and a member of Brightcove’s executive leadership team ... Appointees to U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors: Co-chairs Zoë Baird, Markle Foundation, and Mitchell Baker, Mozilla; other members are Karen Bartleson, IEEE; Greg Becker, Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Financial Group; James Cicconi, AT&T; David Cohen, Comcast; Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago; Mindy Grossman, HSN; Oisin Hanrahan, Handy; Sonia Katyal, University of California-Berkeley School of Law; James Manyika, McKinsey Global Institute; William Ruh, GE Digital; Brad Smith, Microsoft; Corey Thomas, Rapid7; Marta Tellado, Consumer Reports; Susan Wojcicki, YouTube; and John Zimmer, Lyft ... Lobbyist registrations: Etsy, registering on behalf of itself, effective Feb. 1 ... Frontier Communications, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective Feb. 1.
Comcast Cable makes senior vice president promotions: Javier Garcia, general manager-multicultural services; Piers Lingle, customer experience; Ruth Dawson, Comcast Innovation Labs and general manager-Comcast Silicon Valley; Tom Loretan, executive creative director-user experience and product design; Elad Nafshi, next-generation access networks; Noam Raffaelli, IP and communications services; Fraser Stirling, hardware development; Rob Holmes, advanced advertising; Marc Sirota, applied analytics; Ebony Lee, growth development; Luci Rainey, consumer marketing; and Todd Goodbinder, Comcast Business SMB sales ... Telecommunications Industry Association names Ashley Simmons, ex-Intelligent Transportation Society of America, director-communications ... Venable adds Peggy Hudson, ex-Direct Marketing Association, as senior legislative adviser in its Washington office ... Tribune Media digital media appoints: Steven Belser, ex-NowThis and Vice Media, head of creative strategy; Steve Baron, Tribune Broadcasting veteran, head of product and engineering ... Chandra Pisupati, ex-Yahoo, joins Reach Analytics as vice president-engineering, leading its cloud application development ... Intel executive Mark Yahiro joins Sure Genomics advisory board ... Lobbyist registration: Univision Communications, Becker & Poliakoff, effective March 7.
Telemundo promotes Mario Ruiz to senior vice president-music and entertainment projects ... Comcast moves Darren Oliver to regional vice president-human resources, Comcast California … Changes at Pandora: Founder Tim Westergren becomes CEO; Mike Herring becomes president-chief financial officer; Sara Clemens named chief operating officer; Chief Product Officer Chris Phillips adds responsibility for end-to-end product development and delivery; independent board member Jim Feuille appointed board chairman.
Univision Communications hires Eric Ratchman, ex-Disney, as executive vice president-content distribution ... Commerce Department hires Kiersten Todt, ex-Liberty Group Ventures, to National Institute of Standards and Technology and as executive director, Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity ... Pypestream, business-to-consumer mobile messaging platform, hires Michael Williams, ex-Grand Prix of America, as president-sports, media and entertainment ... Among those Starboard Value, a top Yahoo shareholder, said it's nominating to the Internet company's board are: Bridget Baker, ex-NBCUniversal; Brad Buss, who has worked at Cisco, Cypress Semiconductor and other chip companies; Lance Conn, a Charter Communications board member who has worked for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's investment firm and for AOL; Dale Fuller, ex-McAfee; Eddy Hartenstein, ex-Tribune and DirecTV; and Rick Hill, ex-Novellus Systems, now on the board of companies including Arrow Electronics, Autodesk and Cabot Microelectronics.
Norton Rose hires intellectual property technology lawyer Troy Schmelzer, ex-DLA Piper, as partner ... Otter Products names Jim Parke, of investor Blue Ocean Enterprises, CEO, and promotes Steve Nisbet to president and Bonnie Soon to general manager, Asia Pacific, where Rob Kovacs is promoted to vice president-business development ... Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said President Ken Howard, 71, died Wednesday ... Sorenson Holdings names Scott Sorensen acting CEO, Sorenson Communications and CaptionCall, companies at which is chief financial officer; he also is chief operating officer at the communications company; as CEO at both companies he succeeds Pat Nola, leaving to pursue personal interests ... Univision hires Chris Peña, ex-MSNBC, as senior vice president-local media television news, and promotes Lourdes Torres to senior vice president-political coverage & special projects ... SeaChange adds to board William Markey, Relevant C Business Group, succeeding Carmine Vona, who retired from the board in December ... Lobbyist registration: software and services provider VirtuStream, Brownstein Hyatt, effective Feb. 12.