Among appointees to President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness: Steve Case, Revolution; John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins; Paul Otellini, Intel; Antonio Perez, Kodak; Brian Roberts, Comcast; Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook … Fox promotions: Nicole Bernard to senior vice president-audience strategy, Fox Group; Elizabeth Casey to executive vice president-standards and practices, Fox Networks Group … Discovery promotes Camilla Carpenter to senior vice president, strategy and network operations … Insight Communications promotions to senior vice president: Ishmel Goodrum for network operations center; Rocco Laurenzano for project management; Bam Liem for advanced services engineering.
National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative interim President Jack Harvey becomes president-CEO … Cisco Systems promotes Gary Moore to chief operating officer, new position … Edward Evans, ex-Stelera Wireless, becomes Neutral Tandem CEO April 1, on Rian Wren’s retirement … Roberto Llamas, ex-Nielsen, becomes Univision executive vice president-chief human resources officer.
Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, named to President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness … Fox Broadcasting promotions: Suzanna Makkos and Marcus Wiley to senior vice presidents-comedy development; Terence Carter to senior vice president-drama development.
Teresa Stanek Rea, ex-American Intellectual Property Law Association, named Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office … Charter Communications hires John Birrer, ex-T-Mobile USA, as senior vice president of customer experience.
Marybeth Peters, ex-Register of Copyrights, joins Copyright Clearance Center board … David Gross, ex-State Department, named chairman of Information, Communications and Technology Committee at U.S. Council for International Business … West Wireless Health Institute names Ed Cantwell, ex-SpectraPoint, senior vice president … O3B Networks names Steve Collar, ex-SES, CEO, effective March 7, replacing Mark Rigolle after completion of latest financing round … EMS Technologies promotes Dino Koutrouki to its new global resource management business … ShoreTel adds Eric Salzman, Lamco, to board … Clear Channel promotes Kelly Kibler to president/market manager, Dallas … Bravo Digital Media promotes Lisa Hsia to executive vice president, new position.
Named to FCC Technical Advisory Council: Shahid Ahmed, Accenture; Wesley Clark, U.S. Army, retired; Paul Mankiewich, Juniper Networks; John Marinho, Dell; Deven Parekh, Insight Venture Partners; Russ Gyurek, Cisco … Lobbyist registrations effective Jan. 1: Colin Crowell, Crowell Strategies, lobbying for Google on green technology, wireless, copyright and telecom competition issues; Paul Unger, former Republican aide in the House and Senate, working for Comcast on telecom and broadcast issues and net neutrality, and also for the NCTA on net neutrality, broadcasting issues and spectrum … Consultant Glenn Brown joins Rural Broadband Alliance as special adviser and federal-state liaison … MTV Networks promotes Colleen Fahey Rush to executive vice president and chief research officer, new position.
Edward Hassi, ex-O'Melveny & Myers, becomes chief litigation counsel for FTC Bureau of Competition … Andrew Halataei, ex-Stanton Park Group, becomes Information Technology Industry Council director-federal relations … Nokia Siemens Networks names Marco Schroter, ex-Infineon Technologies, chief financial officer … Rajiv Laroia, ex-Flarion, becomes Sonus Networks chief technology officer and senior vice president … Ted Schremp resigns as Charter executive vice president-operations and marketing, citing personal reasons … Ted Garcia, ex-Universal Music Group, hired by PWC as managing director of U.S. entertainment, media and communications practice working on digital and physical content issues.
Anne Boyle, Nebraska PSC, named to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service … Catherine Martin, ex-aide to President George W. Bush, becomes Facebook director-public policy, effective Feb. 21 … DirecTV adds Lorrie Norrington, ex-eBay, to board … Nokia names ex-consultant Chris Weber president of Nokia U.S. and head of markets, North America.
New area presidents at Leap Wireless: David Davis, south; Glen Flowers, ex-MetroPCS, east; Annette Jacobs, west … New Interop Technologies board members: Fred Tannenbaum, Gould & Ratner, and Brian Rich, Catalyst Investors … TLC promotos Laura Staro to senior vice president of research … Cox Communications names Tim McKinley and Steve Rowley, both vice presidents, company officers.
Liberty Media board member Ian Gilchrist joins Sidebar board … George Riedel, ex-Juniper Networks, joins Accedian Networks board …Microsoft promotes Satya Nadella to president of its server and tools business …Disney/ABC TV Group promotes Adam Sanderson to senior vice president-franchise management … Arbitron names Richard Surratt executive vice president of finance, and he will soon become chief financial officer, succeeding Sean Creamer, previously promoted … TruTV promotions to senior vice president: Robyn Hutt for original programming; and Anthony Horn for current programming and specials … Joining Insight Communications as vice presidents: Mitch Weinraub for product development; and Keely Bostock for programming and video services.