With CBS Chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves departing (see 1809100026), Joseph Ianniello moves up to president-acting CEO; directors Moonves, David Andelman, Joseph Califano, Charles Gifford, Leonard Goldberg, Arnold Kopelson and Doug Morris voluntarily resign; and elected to the board are Candace Beinecke, of Hughes Hubbard; Barbara Byrne, ex-Barclays; Brian Goldner, Hasbro; Richard Parsons, ex-Time Warner; Susan Schuman, consulting firm SyPartners and Strauss Zelnick, Zelnick Media Capital.
Derek Teslik, ex-Wilkinson Barker, joins Gray Miller as senior counsel ... Cathy Yao leaves MoffettNathanson, becomes Diamond Hill Capital Management telecom analyst ... Space Foundation selects Thomas Dorame, retired Army, as vice president-strategic operations ... Glen Echo Group adds Emma Christman, ex-Dewey Square Group, as senior associate; and as associates Anne Keeney, ex-American Medical Group Association, and Charlie Vinopal, ex-Rational 360 ... Charter Communications announces Kelly Atkinson, ex-Rogers Communications, as head of marketing ... Raycom Media names Eric Duncan, ex-KXXV Waco, vice president-general manager, KOLD-TV Tucson ... InSpeed Networks adds branding consultant Sandra Hill as chief marketing officer and Ken VanDerHorst, ex-Motorola, as vice president-sales.
Public Knowledge appoints Charlotte Slaiman, ex-FTC Anticompetitive Practices Division, policy counsel ... Lauren Dart, ex-office of Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., joins office of Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., as communications director ... National Electrical Manufacturers Association names Philip Squair, ex-National Propane Gas Association, head-advocacy and lobbying initiatives ... ExteNet appoints Jim Hyde CEO, succeeding Ross Manire, retiring ... Open-IX taps Robert DeVita, ex-Mejeticks, as executive director.
NCTA hires Saul Hernandez, deputy chief of staff for Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., as vice president-government relations ... Chamber of Digital Commerce promotes Amy Davine Kim to chief policy officer, and Paul Brigner, ex-Blockchain Technology and Ecosystem Design Research Center at Georgetown University, becomes director-technology policy ... Auburn University hires from George Washington University cyber expert Frank Cilluffo to direct Charles D. McCrary Institute for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Systems ... Nielsen taps David Anderson, ex-Honeywell, as chief financial officer, succeeding Jamere Jackson, resigns to pursue an outside opportunity outside.
Carmen Scurato leaves National Hispanic Media Coalition, becomes senior policy counsel for Free Press ... Mozilla announces Alan Davidson, ex-New America, returns as vice president-global policy, trust and security ... Globalstar promotes Dave Kagan to CEO and Jay Monroe to executive chairman ... Netflix hires Christie Fleischer, ex-Disney, as global head-consumer products ... Hudson Institute names Ann Marie Hauser, ex-Senate Republican Conference, vice president-public affairs.
Sanmina CEO Bob Eulau resigns, board member Michael Clarke replaces him, effective Oct. 1; Executive Chairman Jure Sola leads company in interim ... Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies appoints from Comtech Kim Robert Scovill as executive director, succeeding George Rice ... CBS taps Philip Wiser, ex-Hearst, as chief technology officer ... Andreessen Horowitz hires Angela Strange, ex-Google, as general partner.
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly hires from Wireline Bureau Arielle Roth as wireline adviser, succeeding Amy Bender, leaving the agency (see 1808030021) ... Eutelsat appoints Philippe Oliva, ex-IBM, executive vice president-sales and products, with a view to succeeding Michel Azibert as commercial director in 2019, with Azibert remaining deputy CEO.
Netflix hires cultural diversity consultant Verna Myers as vice president-inclusion strategy, new post, following June resignation of Chief Communications Officer Jonathan Friedland for using “insensitive” remarks (see 1806220064) ... Hewlett Packard Enterprise hires Tarek Robbiati, ex-Sprint, as chief financial officer, succeeding Tim Stonesifer, stepping down.
ARRL, national association for amateur radio, taps Howard Michel, leaving UBTech, as CEO, succeeding Barry Shelley, CEO since January following resignation of Tom Gallagher ... Madison Square Garden hires Richard Constable, ex-Wyndham Worldwide, as executive vice president-global head of government relations and public affairs ... Inseego taps Simon Rayne, ex-Spectralink, as senior vice president-managing director, U.K., Europe, Middle, East Africa and Asia Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand.
Global VSAT Forum appoints David Meltzer, ex-American Red Cross, secretary general ... Netflix names Rachel Whetstone, ex-Facebook, chief communications officer.