Rogers hires Nitin Kawale, ex-Cisco Systems Canada, as president, enterprise business unit, effective Dec. 1; Larry Baldachin, interim president of the unit, will be a "key executive" there ... Discovery Communications moves Vice President Sarah Davies to that position in production and development, Discovery Family Channel ... President Barack Obama plans to nominate Michelle Lee, deputy undersecretary and deputy director of the Patent and Trademark Office, as Commerce Department undersecretary for Intellectual Property and PTO director, and Victoria Espinel, BSA/The Software Alliance, as member, Trade Policy and Negotiations Advisory Committee ... Videotron promotes in Strategy & Marketing Section to vice presidents Julie Brault for brand & interactive media, and Bertrand Hébert, marketing-telecom, and moves Vice President Marie Ginette Lepage to that position for marketing-content and broadcasting ... Lobbyist Registrations: Digital Receiver Technology, The Charles Group, effective Aug. 15 ... JSA Health Telepsychiatry, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective Sept. 1 ... Videotron promotes in Strategy & Marketing Section to vice presidents Julie Brault for brand & interactive media, and Bertrand Hébert, marketing-telecom, and moves Vice President Marie Ginette Lepage to that position for marketing-content and broadcasting ... Discovery Communications moves Vice President Sarah Davies to that position in production and development, Discovery Family Channel.

Comcast promotes Peter Dobrow to vice president-communications, NBCUniversal’s Hispanic cable network mun2... Elected to inaugural board of Open Interconnect Consortium: Jong-Deok Choi, executive vice president, Samsung Electronics; Imad Sousou, general manager, Intel Open Source Technology Center; Bernard Shung, general manager-new business development, MediaTek; Kip Compton, chief technology officer, Cisco Video & Collaboration Group ... L-com Global Connectivity, supplier of wired and wireless connectivity products, hires Bill Miller, ex-Nexans, as executive vice president-sales and product development ...Diablo Technologies, developer of technology for data-intensive applications, hires David Ferretti, ex-Skyera, as senior vice president-global sales ... Skkynet Cloud Systems adds to board John Adiletta, Somerset International Group.

NAB General Counsel and Executive Vice President Jane Mago retiring, will be a consultant there through 2015 and help oversee music licensing litigation at the Copyright Royalty Board; to be succeeded as head of the legal department by Executive Vice President Rick Kaplan, who now oversees legal and regulatory affairs and is general counsel ...IFC promotes Kevin Vitale to senior vice president-brand marketing ... Birch Communications, following July's purchase of Cbeyond, names at combined company Vincent Oddo as president and CEO, Chris Aversano as executive vice president-chief operating officer, Edward James as senior vice president-chief financial officer, Chris Bunce as senior vice president-general counsel, Christopher Ramsey becomes senior vice president-chief sales officer, and Melanie Kreh promoted to vice president-marketing.

FCC hires Julissa Marenco, ex-ZGS Communications, as Media Bureau assistant chief ... Cloud-based software supplier China Information Technology hires Robin Yang, ex-Harbert Management Corp., as chief financial officer ... Jacob Glick, ex-Google, joins Rogers as chief corporate affairs officer, new post ... CSG hires Peter Zuong, ex-Ericsson, as vice president-chief information security officer ... Joshua Riley, ex-aide to Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., rejoins Boies Schiller as counsel.

Discovery Communications promotes to vice presidents Sara Burns for programming, Investigation Discovery and American Heroes Channel, and for development and production, Destination America Sara Helman and Caroline Perez … VoIP phone-maker Snom promotes Guido Wohlers to chief financial officer … National Association of State Chief Information Officers board for 2014-15 program year includes Chief Information Officers Stu Davis, Ohio, president; David Gustafson, Nevada, vice president; Darryl Ackley, New Mexico, secretary/treasurer, and executive committee directors Claire Bailey, Arkansas; Carlos Ramos, California; Mark Raymond, Connecticut; Paul Baltzell, Indiana; Alex Pettit, Oregon; Karen Robinson, Texas; Sam Nixon, Virginia; and Gale Given, West Virginia … Lobbyist registration: Internet Freedom Business Alliance, Jochum Shore, effective Sept. 10.

Center for Democracy & Technology hires Erik Stallman, ex-Steptoe & Johnson, as director, Open Internet Project, and general counsel … Comcast hires Judy James, ex-Republic Services, as director-government affairs, northern Bay Area of California, which covers Marin, Mendocino, Napa, North Solano and Sonoma areas … 21st Century Fox adds to duties of Fox Networks Group Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Claudia Teran to also be general counsel, Fox Sports … GSN hires Chris Moseley, ex-Madison Square Garden Co., as executive vice president-chief marketing officer … Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers elections for 2015-16 include: Robert Seidel, CBS, president; Matthew Goldman, Ericsson, executive vice president; Stephen Beres, HBO, governor, Hollywood region; and Merrick Ackermans, Turner, governor, Southern U.S. region … Unwired Planet director David Lockwood retiring from board at end of his term.

Disney hires Karey Burke, whose Dark Toy Entertainment had a deal with ABC Studios, as executive vice president-programming and development, ABC Family … Frontier Communications promotes to regional vice presidents in the East region, to expand to include Connecticut after the telco buys AT&T’s operations there (see separate report above in this issue): Kira Howell, marketing; and Cyn Stehouwer, operations … Elevated on Broadcast Music Inc. board to chairman is Paul Karpowicz, Meredith Local Media Group, succeeding Susan Davenport Austin, Sheridan Broadcasting, elected presiding director; joining board are Caroline Beasley, Beasley Broadcast, and William Hoffman, Cox Media Group … Agari, which prevents email cyberattacks, adds Martin Brauns, ex-Interwoven, to board … Rovi hires Kathy Weidman, ex-MoonBeam Partners, as senior vice president and general manager-metadata.

Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program hires Blair Levin, ex-Aspen Institute, as nonresident senior fellow, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative … TechNet hires Caroline Joiner, ex-independent government affairs consultant, as executive director-Texas and Southeast region … Fletcher Heald hires Laura Stefani, ex-Goldberg Godles, as of counsel, to focus on emerging technologies, wireless, broadband and RF equipment issues … Davis Wright hires Bonnie MacNaughton, ex-Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, as a partner, Seattle office … Application Developers Alliance hires Sophie Mestchersky, ex-Apple, as director-European policy and government affairs.

21st Century Fox promotes Nicole Bernard to executive vice president-audience strategy, The Fox Group … Rovi hires Sean Matthews, ex-Arris, as executive vice president-strategy and corporate development … 4G Americas hires Jose Felipe Otero Muñoz, ex-Signals Telecom Group, as director-Latin America and the Caribbean … Scott Greer, ex-Sony Music, joins Capitol Music Group as executive vice president, new position … Kaspersky Lab North America hires Mike Parise, ex-Core Security, as senior vice president-corporate sales.

Minority Media and Telecommunications Council hires Kim Keenan, MMTC board member and ex-NAACP, as president and CEO, succeeding President David Honig, who continues full time at council as president emeritus and general counsel … Verizon hires Diego Scotti, ex-J.Crew, as chief marketing officer … Sysorex, provider of big data, cybersecurity and location-based mobile services, hires Will Frederick, ex-Neural ID, as chief financial officer, replacing Wendy Loundermon, moved to vice president-finance … iHeartMedia promotes Hector Marcano to vice president, Hispanic Operations East, and general manager, WRUM(FM) Orlando … Unwired Planet adds to board Andrew Dodge of Indaba Capital Management, an affiliate of which is Unwired Planet’s largest investor … Open Platform for NFV project names as a “platinum” board member Anthony C.K. Soong, Huawei Technologies USA.