K&L Gates hires Joon Ro Yoon, ex-Reitler Kailas, as partner, IP Litigation practice ... Herman & Whiteaker hires Carrie DeVier, ex-McNair Law Firm, as associate ... Gray Television promotes Greg Conklin to vice president-corporate programming ... RiskIQ hires Jeff Baeth, ex-VeriSign, as chief financial officer ... Silver Peak hires John Vincenzo, ex-Embrane, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Ateme adds to board Jacques Galloy, ex-EVS Broadcast ... Jennifer Ernst, Thinfilm Electronics, elected to chair FlexTech Alliance's governing board for two-year term ... Lobbyist registrations: Comcast, Harbinger Strategies, effective Feb. 1 ... Hewlett-Packard, Rock Creek Counsel, effective Feb. 1 ... Mutualink, Dana Hudson, effective Feb. 1 ... Secure Communications, a cyber firm, Socci and Associates, effective March 3.
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Brandon McBride, Senate Agriculture Committee staffer, to be administrator, Rural Utilities Service ... Frontier Communications hires AJ Burton, ex-Hogan Lovells, as director-federal regulatory affairs ... Madison Square Garden Co. President-CEO Tad Smith resigns, hired to same jobs by Sotheby's, which also adds him to board ...Newtec hires Kevin McCarthy, ex-MTN Satellite Communications, as vice president-market development ... Openwave Messaging hires Lokdeep Singh, ex-Syniverse, as chief product officer, and Jay Seaton, ex-GlassHouse Technologies, as senior vice president-marketing and business development ... Black Box moves Vice President Rick Gannon to that position in operations, North America Commercial Services.
CTIA hires Kara Romagnino, ex-Mintz Levin, as director-regulatory affairs, and Hank Kilgore, ex-office of then-Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., as director-government affairs ... Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hires Greta Milligan Peisch, ex-Office of U.S. Trade Representative, as international trade counsel ... TVEyes promotes Dan Miles to chief operating officer, new position ... Adaptive Medias names Omar Akram to president and chief financial officer.
PCTel promotes David Neumann to senior vice president and general manager, RF Solutions group, and Rishi Bharadwaj to vice president and general manager, Connected Solutions ... ComScore hires David Shiffman, ex-MediaVest, as senior vice president-marketing solutions, and Duncan Trigg, ex-Project Sunblock, as vice president-advertising effectiveness ... RingCentral hires Al Campa, ex-Sierra Ventures, as chief marketing officer ... Returning to Gannett is Bob Sullivan, ex-Scripps Media, hired as senior vice president-programming, Gannett Broadcasting ... Lobbyist registration: InterDigital, wireless technology provider, Kelley Drye, effective Feb. 2.
Drinker Biddle hires Phil Gingrey, ex-Republican U.S. representative from Georgia, as senior adviser, Government & Regulatory Affairs Practice Group ... Goodwin Procter hires Marcia Sundeen, ex-Kenyon & Kenyon, as partner, IP Litigation Group ... Media General hires Richard Levine, ex-AT&T Services, as head-distribution ... Endgame, cybersecurity firm, hires James Butler, ex-FireEye and Mandiant, as chief scientist.
Kellogg Huber hires as associates, working in practice areas including telecom, ex-law clerks Thomas Bennett, Nicholas Hunter, Bradley Oppenheimer and Thomas Schultz ... Cable One hires Kevin Coyle, ex-Elauwit Networks, as senior vice president and chief financial officer ... International Datacasting President and CEO Doug Lowther leaving ... TE Connectivity promotes Terrence Curtin to president, new position ... Tribune Broadcasting hires Jon Hitchcock, ex-CBS, as vice president and general manager of Connecticut's WTIC-TV Hartford and WCCT-TV Waterbury ... AMC Networks hires Bernadette Simpao, ex-Viacom, as vice president-corporate communications ... 21st Century Fox promotes Victoria Marcroft to vice president-marketing, promotion and publicity department, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution ... Digital Place Based Advertising Association adds to board Jose Avalos, Intel ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers adds to Engineering Committee Ron Hranac, Cisco, new chairman of SCTE Network Operations Subcommittee.
Wiley Rein hires David Frolio, ex-GSM Association, as consulting counsel, Communications Practice ... Comcast promotes to also be executive vice presidents General Counsel and Secretary Arthur Block, Chief Communications Officer D’Arcy Rudnay and Chief Accounting Officer and Controller Lawrence Salva ... Shutterstock hires Craig Felenstein, ex-Discovery Communications, as senior vice president-investor relations Globecomm names Jason Juranek, ex-Harris CapRock, chief financial officer ... Inrix hires Steve Banfield, ex-Rightside, as chief marketing officer ... Dish Network hires Scott Skurnick, ex-Sears Holdings, to lead digital marketing as vice president-digital acquisition ... Globecast hires Rick Horrow, Horrow Sports Ventures, as "key industry advisor on a consultancy basis."
Comcast hires Andy Lack, who left the Broadcasting Board of Governors last week (see 1503050043), to return to company, named chairman, NBC News and MSNBC, effective in April; Pat Fili-Krushel moves into new corporate role on executive team ... iHeartMedia promotes Charlie Wilkinson to market president, Dallas ... Deluxe hires Frank Cardello, ex-T3 Media, as president, Deluxe Media ... Internet2 hires Florence Hudson, ex-IBM, as senior vice president-chief innovation officer ... Phoenix New Media, Chinese Internet content provider, promotes Shu Liu to senior vice president ... RingCentral adds Michelle McKenna-Doyle, NFL, to board, from which Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Hermes Growth Partners, resigns.
Broadcasting Board of Governors CEO and Director Andrew Lack departing; Director-Global Operations André Mendes named interim CEO and director ... Communications Systems promotes interim CEO Roger Lacey to that job permanently, and he remains vice chairman ... 21st Century Fox moves Vice President Michael Petrie to that job for investor relations, succeeding Joe Dorrego, previously promoted to senior vice president-chief financial officer, Fox Television Stations ... Returning to KMGH-TV Denver is Brad Remington, ex-KTVK Phoenix, hired by E.W. Scripps as KMGH vice president and general manager ... Center for Democracy & Technology adds to board Andy Pincus, Mayer Brown, and Erika Rottenberg, ex-LinkedIn ... National Treasury Employees Union National President Colleen Kelley retiring following union’s national convention in August.
Leosat hires Vern Fotheringham, ex-Kymeta, as CEO (see 1503040016) ... T-Mobile US hires Christine Kurth, ex-FCC Enforcement Bureau, as senior policy counsel ... Rook Security says FBI names the company's Tom Gorup as chief, Indiana InfraGard IT Sector, which works on cybersecurity and other issues ... World Teleport Association board elects James Trevelyan, Arqiva Satellite & Media, chairman, effective April 1 ... Among those named by Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to Commerce Data Advisory Council: Danah Boyd, Microsoft; Daniel Castro, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Chris DiBona, Google; Stan Humphries, Zillow; Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition; Vadim Kutsyy, eBay; CJ Moses, Amazon Web Services; Colin Parris, GE Software; Brian Schimpf, Palantir; and Kim Stevenson, Intel ... Lobbyist registrations: Mutualink, interoperability firm, The National Group, effective Jan. 14 ... Palo Alto Networks, registering on behalf of itself, effective Jan. 16.