Alvarion wireless broadband connectivity firm promotes Assaf Katan to acting CEO … WWE hires Michael Pine, ex-IMG, as senior vice president-global sales & partnership marketing … Disney promotes Marci Cooperstein to ABC Family vice president-programming and development … Pioneer Consulting submarine fiber firm promotes Guy Arnos to vice president-North America … Lobbyist registrations: Application Developers Alliance, self registration, effective Jan. 1 … Cyber Secure America Coalition, Petrizzo Bond, effective April 8 … TracFone Wireless, Upstream Consulting, effective April 1.
Arianespace appoints Stephane Israel, former chief of staff to the French Minister of Industrial Renewal, as chairman and CEO … Changes at Arris, now that it has acquired Google’s Motorola Home set-top business (CD April 19 p22): Marwan Fawaz, who had led the unit, is leaving and will be a special consultant for several months; John Burke to lead corporate strategy & development and converged experiences; Larry Robinson runs Home Devices business; Bruce McClelland leads Network & Cloud businesses … Dyn, Internet infrastructure as service firm, adds Michael Boustridge, ex-BT Global Services, to board … Lobbyist registrations: Harris Corp., Doerrer Group, effective Feb. 1 … Florida Association of Broadcasters, Capitol Insight, effective March 1 … 21st Century Privacy Coalition, Mayer Brown, effective March 11 … Comcast, FTI Government Affairs and Raul Tapia, effective March 15.
Peter Klein to depart as Microsoft chief financial officer when fiscal year ends June 30, no replacement named … Lobbyist registrations: musicFIRST, Greenberg Traurig, effective Jan. 1 … Verizon, Cove Strategies, effective March 1.
Angie Kronenberg leaving office of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, where she was wireline legal adviser, replaced on acting basis by Rebekah Goodheart, who most recently was deputy director of the agency’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force and associate Wireline Bureau chief … Level 3 hires Joe Cavender, ex-Wireline Bureau, as vice president-federal regulatory affairs … Michael McAlone, ex-Telemundo, rejoins Univision Communications as vice president-network sales for Southwest … MovieLabs hires John Carney, ex-Comcast, as president and CEO … Digital Promise, nonprofit on technology and education authorized by Congress, names Karen Cator, ex-U.S. Department of Education, president and CEO.
Copyright Office promotes Robert Kasunic to associate register-copyrights, and director-registration policy and practice … Orbcomm hires Craig Montgomery, ex-CMG Partners, as senior vice president-marketing … Aternity application monitoring firm hires as vice presidents, both ex-Tibco: Rich Perry for worldwide sales, and Edward Tobin for client services … Open Networking Foundation hires Rick Bauer, ex-Storage Networking Industry Association and CompTIA, as technical program manager.
TVGN hires Brad Schwartz, ex-MSG Media, as president-entertainment and media, as TVGN is now owned by CBS Corp. and Lionsgate … Viacom hires Steve Agase, ex-NBCUniversal, as senior vice president-Music & Entertainment Ad Sales, West Coast, including digital operations … Perseus Telecom hires Lorenz Voss, ex-Trading Technologies International, as executive vice president-global procurement and strategy … ExteNet Systems distributed networks firm hires Andrew Chavez, ex-Nokia Systems Networks, as senior vice president-sales and marketing.
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Matthew Armstrong, strategist on public diplomacy, to become a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors … Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing promotes Mark Snow to senior vice president and general manager-consumer marketing and insights, and Deepa Venkataraman to senior director-integrated marketing … PCN Technology, maker of Internet Protocol products for copper infrastructure, hires Dave Karpenske, ex-JDS Uniphase, as chief operating officer … Covington & Burling hires Gina Vetere, ex-U.S. Chamber’s Global Intellectual Property Center, as special counsel-international trade, public policy and government affairs practices … Univision Communications hires Gustavo Ordóñez, ex-A&E Ole Networks Latin America, as senior vice president-programming research … Lobbying registrations: Both IBM and Wildcat Communications, Burton Kamins Advocacy, effective March 1 … For Discovery Communications, Disney and Viacom, Ernst & Young, effective March 1.
Level 3 promotes President Jeff Storey to also be CEO and nominates him to become a director, succeeding James Crowe, who had planned to leave (CD March 8 p17) and won’t seek re-election to board … Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei named Sirius XM chairman, replacing Eddy Hartenstein … Computer Services mobile and Internet payment company hires Stuart McLellan, ex-BankVue, as vice president-sales, Eastern region.
Duncan Burns, ex-Hill and Knowlton, named ICANN vice president-global communications … Univision Communications advances Ken Wilkey to senior vice president-engineering and technical operations, Univision Television Group … Brandenburg Life Foundation Chairman David Brandenburg named ViewCast chairman, succeeding George Platt, who remains on board … Jessica Murphy promoted to Nickelodeon Group vice president-strategic property planning and marketing … Brenda Budzynski, ex-Alcatel-Lucent, named Spectralink vice president-global R&D … Barry McCarthy, Technology Crossover Ventures partner, won’t seek re-election to Pandora board … Lobbyist registrations: TracFone Wireless, self registration, effective March 31 … Telesat, Shockey Scofield Solutions, effective April 1.
Advanced at Cablevision Systems: Kristin Dolan to president of optimum services; Wilt Hildenbrand to senior advisor-customer care, technology and networks; Brian Sweeney to senior executive vice president-strategy, a new post … Andrew Strauser promoted to vice president, talent development & casting for TLC.