VMware adds Carol Carpenter, ex-Google Cloud, as chief marketing officer; and names senior vice presidents Sandy Hogan from Rackspace, for worldwide commercial and partner sales, and Fidelma Russo, ex-Iron Mountain, and also general manager-Cloud Services business ... Limelight Networks announces Christine Cross, ex-GoDaddy, is senior vice president-chief marketing officer.
Comcast promotes Mitch Rose to executive vice president-federal government affairs, succeeding Kathy Zachem in leading Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington office; Zachem retiring, leaving daily responsibilities effective June 30 and remaining at company through 2020 as adviser to Chief Legal Officer-Secretary Tom Reid ... Jamie Favazza, ex-Pinterest, hired by TikTok as public policy communications director, she says; company doesn't comment ... Internet Association's Noah Theran leaving IA effective June 12, hired by Managed Funds Association as executive vice president-managing director, global communications.
IP attorney Jodi DeSchane, ex-Faegre Drinker, joins Ballard Spahr as of counsel; her practice includes copyright, advertising, social media and internet-related issues ... Comcast's Jason Armstrong, chief financial officer of Sky, returns to corporate headquarters as executive vice president-treasurer after his relocation to Sky’s HQ in U.K. complicated by COVID-19; Comcast Treasurer Bill Dordelman retiring; and Armstrong succeeded at Sky by Simon Robson, promoted from his deputy to full CFO.
Dish Network hires Dave Mayo, from T-Mobile, as executive vice president-network deployment, responsible for wireless buildout strategy; promotes Jeff Blum to executive vice president-external and legislative affairs; gives Chief Operating Officer John Swieringa added responsibilities as group president-retail wireless; and advances Michael Schwimmer to group president-Sling TV ... LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition head Mike Gravino retires ... Internet Association hires Dylan Hoffman, ex-aide to Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, as director-government affairs, California.
FTC moves up Patty McDermott to Anticompetitive Practices Division deputy assistant director ... Cox Media Group hires Daniel York, from AT&T, as president-CEO, succeeding interim CEO Steve Pruett, who remains executive chairman (see this section, May 8) ... Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz to step down, staying through transition ... Producer Tara Duncan joins Disney's Freeform as president; ABC Owned Television Stations elevates Rob Elmore to president-general manager, WTVD Durham, North Carolina ... Meredith hires Deborah Collura, ex-Tegna, for vice president-general manager, WGCL-TV and WPCH-TV, both in Atlanta, and promotes Corey Hanson to vice president-general manager, WALA-TV Mobile, Alabama.
Trump administration appoints Blake Curtis, ex-Curtis & Curtis, state director, Agriculture Department Rural Development in New Mexico, a job spokesperson tells us includes Rural Utilities Service there ... Disney promotes Carlos Gomez to senior vice president-treasurer, succeeding Jonathan Headley, retiring ... Zoom hires Damien Hooper-Campbell, ex-eBay, for its first chief diversity officer ... Ritter Communications hires Heath Simpson, ex-Bacom, as chief financial officer, succeeding Bill Harrison, now CFO, E. Ritter and Co.
Perkins Coie adds from Gibson Dunn Alison Watkins as partner, Litigation and Privacy & Security practices ... Kansas Association of Broadcasters' Kent Cornish retiring as president-executive director, remaining as vice president; Allison Mazzei, ex-Pennington & Co., to lead KAB ... Technology and cybersecurity expert Preston Grisham joins APCO as director.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies appoints from McLarty Associates Philippe Maze-Sencier global chair-public affairs ... Zoom adds Velchamy Sankarlingam, ex-VMware, as president-engineering and product ... ImOn Communications promotes Jake Ryan to chief financial officer.
BSA|The Software Alliance announces Heidi Obermeyer, ex-CTIA, as manager-policy ... Aparna Patrie, ex-Senate Judiciary Committee, becomes Facebook public policy manager ... Belden promotes Roel Vestjens to president-CEO, succeeding John Stroup, who becomes executive chairman; also appoints Vestjens and Nancy Calderon, ex-KPMG, to board ... MagnaChip Semiconductor hires Young Soo Woo, ex-CoreeGroup, as chief financial officer ... ImOn Communications advances Jake Ryan to chief financial officer ... Bernie Colpitts, ex-GameStop, returns to ON Semiconductor as chief accounting officer and vice president-subsidiary Semiconductor Components Industries ... F5 promotes Tom Fountain to executive vice president-global services and chief strategy officer, succeeding Steve McMillan, becoming president-CEO of Teradata, effective June 8 ... Hearst moves Shawn Oswald back to KETV Omaha as president-general manager.
Blue Apron's Jason Hatcher, vice president-operations, and Greg Wysocki, vice president-procurement and supply chain, take over fulfillment and supply chain operations ... Nexstar promotes Chris Pruitt to vice president-general manager, broadcast and digital operations in Houston ... Senate confirms John Ratcliffe, 49-44, as director of national intelligence (see this section, May 20).