NG9-1-1 Institute elects Patrick Halley executive director, and he remains of counsel to Wilkinson Barker, succeeding Kim Robert Scovill, recently hired by Intrado as vice president-regulatory affairs and now elected as the institute's deputy director ... Unwired Planet hires Noah Mesel, ex-Assia, as general counsel, corporate secretary and executive vice president-legal and government affairs ... Mitchell Silberberg promotes Matthew Williams, copyright, entertainment, intellectual property and technology lawyer, to partner ... Fox hires Danielle Maged, ex-RedBird Capital and before that eBay, as executive vice president-global partnerships, new position.
Elizabeth Russell Neuhoff of Neuhoff Communications joins Gray Television board, new seat ... Nexstar Broadcasting promotes Arika Zink to vice president-general manager, WFXR (Fox) and WWCW-TV (CW) Roanoke/Lynchburg/Blacksburg, Virginia ... New board members at Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program: Jim Walker-Pontius, U.S. Cellular, as chairman of TIRAP’s Technology Committee; Art Pregler, AT&T, as chairman of Quality Committee ... James Anderson, Turner Broadcasting, elected to board of National Association of Minorities in Communications ... Lobbyist registration: PayPal, Emmer Consulting, effective July 20.
Viacom names Alex Berkett, ex-Townsquare, senior vice president-corporate development ... Mediacom promotes Tom Larsen to senior vice president-government and public relations and Peter Lyons to senior vice president-information technology ... Samuel Di Piazza, ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers, joins AT&T board ... New in National Hispanic Media Coalition Washington office: Andy Lomeli, ex-California Public Utilities Commission and Public Knowledge, rejoins as policy associate; Michael Scurato promoted to vice president-policy; Google Policy Fellow Daiquiri Ryan to extend her tenure with NHMC.
Jim Johnsen, Alaska Communications, named president of the University of Alaska ... Animal Planet promotes Andy Weissberg to senior vice president-programming, and Erin Wanner to vice president-production.
Promotions at Emmis Communications: Patrick Walsh to president-chief operating officer and Ryan Hornaday to executive vice president-chief financial officer ... Public Radio International appoints Alison Ranney, Koya Leadership Partners, to its board ... NBCUniversal’s Hispanic Enterprises and Content promotes Lleni Sandoval to vice president-human resources ... Brian Collins resigns from board of Craig Wireless Systems ... Kathleen Schneider, ex-Criteo, joins Level 3 Communications as senior vice president-product and marketing, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
21st Century Fox promotes Kristopher Jones to vice president-government relations ... Frontier Communications names Gabriela Zabalúa, ex-AARP, vice president-multicultural marketing ... Chris Pruitt, ex-KMVT-TV and KSVT-TV, Twin Falls, Idaho, returns to Nexstar Broadcasting as vice president-general manager, KWKT-TV, KYLE-TV and associated digital services for the Waco, Temple and Bryan, Texas, market ... National Association of State Chief Information Officers names Yejin Cooke, ex-National Association of Counties, director-government affairs ... Texting Base said Kimberley Partoll, ex-AOL, is joining SMS marketing firm as investor and adviser ... Qualcomm hires Sunil Lalvani, ex-BlackBerry, as corporate vice president and president of Qualcomm India; Avneesh Agrawal departs Qualcomm as corporate senior vice president and president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, plans unannounced ... Lobbyist registrations: American Association of Independent Music, Thorsen French Advocacy, effective July 13 ... Bond & Associates on behalf of ACA, Dunlap Consulting, effective May 25 ... Software Contract Solutions, Lobbyit.com, effective June 1 ... TwinLogic Strategies on behalf of the Competitive Carriers Association, Yahoo, Winn Strategies, effective June 8.
AT&T, which completed purchase of DirecTV (see 1507240055), names John Stankey CEO, AT&T Entertainment & Internet Services, to lead combined DirecTV and AT&T Home Solutions; DirecTV President, Chairman and CEO Mike White plans to retire ... Wiley Rein's McBee Strategic hires Greg Garcia, ex-Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, as executive vice president, leading its cybersecurity policy advocacy, communications and coalition management practice ... TierPoint, cloud computing and colocation firm, names Jerry Kent CEO, and he remains chairman, will stay in those roles at Suddenlink until its deal to be bought by Altice is complete, and remains CEO of Cequel III, telecom management firm with management agreements with Suddenlink and TierPoint; he succeeds Paul Estes at TierPoint, who remains Cequel III executive vice president ... Allied Minds' BridgeSat, developing an optical system to improve wireless data transfer from satellites, hires David Mitlyng, ex-SSL, as senior vice president-business development and strategy ... Electronic Recyclers International promotes James Kim to chief financial officer ... National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications elects to board James Anderson, Turner Broadcasting System ... Lobbyist registration: Pearl Mobile DTV, Podesta Group, effective May 1.
Pete Moller, ex-GE, named CEO of HEVC Advance patent pool ... Digital Entertainment Group hires John Powers, ex-Warner Home Video, as executive director ... Yahoo promotes Lisa Utzschneider to chief revenue officer ... CA Technologies hires Ayman Sayed, ex-Cisco, as chief product officer, effective Aug. 10 ... Viacom moves Senior Vice President James Stephenson to that role for animation and games, Nickelodeon, new position ... Zenith Research & Development President Jong Kim promoted to senior vice president at parent LG Electronics ... Cisco Chief Strategy Officer Hilton Romanski to join Technicolor board after Technicolor's deal to buy Cisco's connected devices business is completed (see 1507230028) ... Lobbyist registrations: News Corp., Harbinger Strategies, effective May 20 ... Oracle, Horizon Government Affairs, effective July 1.
Cable Center President-CEO Larry Satkowiak retiring, effective at year end ... Rubicon Project, automated advertising company, hires Theresa Mueller, ex-Rocket Fuel, to head political sales at new Washington office; Senior Vice President Dallas Lawrence to be senior political adviser supporting campaign strategy and advocacy outreach ... Qualcomm, as part of strategic realignment plan and deal with investor JANA Partners, adds to board Mark McLaughlin, Palo Alto Networks, and Tony Vinciquerra, Texas Pacific Group and ex-Fox Networks Group, and soon a third director both sides will pick; Brent Scowcroft and Duane Nelles retired from the board, Donald Cruickshank previously told the company he won't run for re-election in 2016, and Raymond Dittamore, if re-elected then, won't run in 2017.
Comtech Telecommunications promotes Comtech Xicom Technology President John Branscum to also be president, Comtech EF Data, succeeding Robert McCollum, retiring July 31 ... Evernote hires Chris O’Neill, formerly of Google [X], as CEO ... Harman International promotes Global Automotive Audio General Manager Phillip Eyler to president-infotainment, replacing Sachin Lawande (see 1506100002), who left June 29 to join Visteon as CEO ... Norsat adds to board Peter Ciceri, Archipelago Marine Services; Shannon Susko leaves board to focus full time on a new venture ... Lobbyist registration: KM LPTV of Chicago-13, Thompson Coburn, effective June 2.