Cable ONE CEO Julie Laulis joins C-SPAN board ... NTCA hires Adam Jorde, ex-aide to Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., as a director-government affairs ... CommScope promotes Morgan Kurk to executive vice president-chief operating officer ... Meredith Corp. promotes Lori Brock to vice president-finance, Meredith Local Media ... Radio Frequency Systems names Eddy Vanderkerken, ex- Rohde & Schwarz, director-broadcast sales.
CTIA extends contract by five years for President-CEO Meredith Baker, with pact now ending in 2024 ... Intelsat hires Samer Halawi, ex-OneWeb, as chief commercial officer, effective Jan. 9 ... Biamp Systems' Ron Camden, who planned to retire, now remains vice president-sales, Americas after it was bought by Highlander Partners, reporting to Rashid Skaf, new president-CEO/co-chairman.
Manatt Phelps hires Gregg Nunziata, ex-adviser to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and with tech and patent expertise, as partner, federal regulatory and government practice ... D.A. Davidson adds Thomas White, ex-Macquarie Capital, to institutional equity research team as internet and advertising technology sector analyst ... Monaco cryptocurrency platform hires from Payreto Erald Ghoos as chief operating officer; from Prudential Asia Sean Rach as chief marketing officer; Ken Baylor, ex-Uber, as chief cybersecurity officer; and Weiyi Zhang, ex-AP Capital Management, as platform architect.
Disney's John Skipper resigns as president, ESPN, and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks; George Bodenheimer, ex-ESPN president and former executive chairman, named acting chairman for 90 days; Skipper says he "struggled for many years with a substance addiction," the most important thing now "is to take care of my problem" and he and the company agreed he should resign ... Cablevision's Dolan family-founded media measurement and analytics firm 605 hires technology consultant Daniel Berg as its first chief technology officer ... Madison Square Garden Co. moves up Andrew Lustgarten to president.
USTelecom hires Hawley Stanton, ex-office of House Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta, R-Ohio, as manager-government affairs ... U.K. government names Terry Burns, ex-Channel 4, Ofcom chairman, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Patricia Hodgson, stepping down ... Newsmax TV hires Jeff Lewis, ex-Ovation, as chief revenue officer ... New maker of ultra-small satellites AST&Science, started by Abel Avellan, ex-Emerging Markets Communications, as founder-chairman-CEO ... Arrow Electronics names Steven Gunby, FTI Consulting, to the board, from which John Hanson retires ... Open Compute Project Foundation elects Mark Roenigk, Facebook, as chair, succeeding that company's Jason Taylor.
Pat Carney retires as FCC Office of General Counsel Administrative Law Division assistant general counsel-ethics ... Outgoing Universal Service Administrative Co. acting CEO Vickie Robinson's post at Microsoft (see 1712130018 or 1712130020) is corporate affairs director, Microsoft Airband Initiative, effective Jan. 8, a USAC representative told us; company continues not commenting ... New law firm of Edwards Maxson Mago & Macaulay, with areas including intellectual property; mergers and acquisitions; and technology transactions, adds as partners from Culhane Meadows, working in these areas, Jamal Edwards, Ajay Mago and Michelle Skinner, spokeswoman tells us.
At Universal Service Administrative Co., FCC Chairman Ajit Chairman Pai OKs appointment from Farm Services Administration of Radha Sekar as USAC CEO; Vickie Robinson was acting CEO; the nonprofit that helps administer USF said its board accepted Robinson's resignation in roles also including vice president-general counsel, effective Dec. 31 and says she "accepted a leadership role with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative Team"; the company didn't comment ... New York Interconnect Head/Altice Media Solutions President Ed Renicker named CEO of new multi-operator cable advertising interconnect (see 1712130052).
Matt Johnson, ex-aide to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Izzy Klein, ex-aide to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., start "lobby and public policy shop" Klein/Johnson Group, with clients including First Data and Oracle; Klein tells us both are the firm's co-founders and principals ... New at Pandora: Aimée Lapic, ex-Gap, joins as chief marketing officer ... FiberLight hires Marc Dyman, ex-Digital Realty Trust and Time Warner Cable, as executive vice president-chief revenue officer, new post ... Vonage adds Dharmesh Shah, ex-EarthLink, as vice president-inside sales, new post.
Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council's Kim Keenan resigns as president-CEO to "pursue another business opportunity," MMTC spokeswoman says; Maurita Coley Flippin named interim president-CEO and continues doing chief operating officer-executive vice president duties ... Internet Association hires Amy Murphy, who advised the now-retiring Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, as manager-federal government affairs ... Disney hires from Channel Media Solutions Mike Napodano as senior vice president-chief technology officer, Disney|ABC Television Group.
Wayne Luplow to retire in early January after a 53-year career at Zenith, including as one of the framers of HDTV; will remain a consultant on ATSC 3.0 and other issues and keep his ATSC board seat as a representative of IEEE ... Entercom re-adds Nichole Hartman, ex-Cox Media Group, as senior vice president-market manager, Chattanooga and promotes Claudia Menegus to senior vice president-market manager, Orlando ... Univision Communications moves up Dominic Fails to senior vice president-local media sales, for radio business nationwide.