Aspen Institute names Tom Wheeler, ex-FCC, senior fellow; his first blog post there is on E-rate ... Netflix moves Greg Peters, who led international development efforts, to chief product officer, effective in July, succeeding Neil Hunt; Chief Talent Officer Tawni Cranz leaving to pursue other interests ... Tegna hires Anne Bentley, ex-PBS and AOL, as vice president-chief communications officer, reporting to CEO Gracia Martore ... Webroot hires Gary Hayslip as chief information security officer; he was San Diego's CISO ... Univision Communications promotes Danny Lowry to vice president-radio national sales, new post, and Christine Escobar to vice president-general manager & director-sales, Univision Austin.

Viacom expands role of Colleen Fahey Rush as executive vice president-insights and audience science/chief research officer, Viacom Media Networks ... SES board OKs restructuring, creating SES Video and SES Networks: Ferdinand Kayser, currently SES chief commercial officer, named CEO, SES Video; Steve Collar, now CEO, O3b Networks, moves to CEO, SES Networks, and both report to SES CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh; in addition to those three, SES executive committee is: Chief Financial Officer Padraig McCarthy; Chief Strategy-Development Officer Christophe De Hauwer; Chief Technology Officer Martin Halliwell; Chief Human Resources Officer Evie Roos; and Chief Legal Officer John Purvis, company announced.

TDS Telecom Executive Vice President-Government and Regulatory Affairs Kevin Hess retiring, effective at year's end, succeeded by Drew Petersen, currently vice president-external affairs and communications, who will lead the Government and Regulatory department, effective later this year ... Salem Media Group promotes Heath Garlutzo to general manager, Colorado Springs ... Courtney White adds Food Network and Cooking Channel programming and development to her Travel Channel oversight, Scripps Networks Interactive announces.

Drinker Biddle's Mark Dever and Eduardo Guzmán join Squire Patton Communications Practice Group as partners ... Radio Television Digital News Association and Foundation hire ex-chairman and current foundation Secretary/Treasurer Dan Shelley as incoming executive director and, effective in September, executive director, succeeding Mike Cavender, retiring (see the personals section of the Dec. 1 issue of this publication), and providing transition assistance through Dec. 31 ... Zayo hires from Level 3, which CenturyLink is buying, Andrew Crouch as president-chief operating officer, effective April 27, succeeding Chris Morley, remaining during a transition.

AT&T creates Global Public Sector organization and expands responsibilities of AT&T executive Kay Kapoor to lead it as president; Kapoor led AT&T’s public-private partnership for FirstNet, which was announced March 30 (see 1703300050) ... Salem Media Group Washington, D.C., Vice President-General Manager David Ruleman is retiring, effective at the end of June; he also has oversight of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Boston; Ruleman promotes Tom Moyer to general manager-Washington, already effective ... Hogan Lovells adds, all from Weil Gotshal, mergers and acquisitions partners Richard Climan, Keith Flaum and Jane Ross, and IP and Technology Transactions partner John Brockland ... SureID hires aviation and aerospace consultant Justin Oberman, ex-Transportation Security Administration, as vice president-identity strategy.

RIAA promotes Mitch Glazier to president, effective now, and to chairman-CEO, effective in January 2019; Chairman-CEO Cary Sherman retires, effective at the end of 2018 ... USTelecom hires Sally Aman, who ran her own firm, as senior vice president-communications and public affairs, succeeding Anne Veigle (see this section of the March 31 issue of this publication) ... Jenner & Block adds David Bitkower, ex-DOJ Criminal Division principal deputy assistant attorney general, as partner, White Collar Defense and Investigations practice.

Verizon hires Hans Vestberg, ex-Ericsson, as executive vice president, Network and Technology team; Marni Walden continues to report to Chairman-CEO Lowell McAdam, as does Vestberg, Walden is executive vice president, Media and Telematics, and continues leading integration and expansion of telematics; and John Stratton likewise reports to McAdam as executive vice president, Customer and Product Operations, and leads operations and sales for IoT products and services.

USTelecom's Anne Veigle, senior vice president-communications and ex-Communications Daily, decided to depart to pursue new opportunities ... Nexstar Media hires Gregory Raifman, ex-Rubicon Project, as president, Nexstar Digital, new post ... Space Foundation hires Tom Zelibor, ex-Lightwave Logic, as CEO, effective April 30 ... Windstream hires Christopher King, ex-Curo Health Services and telecom and cable analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, as vice president-investor relations ... Board of Conway Corp., operator of Conway, Arkansas-owned utility system including cable, phone and internet, promotes Chief Financial Officer Bret Carroll to CEO, succeeding Richard Arnold, retiring effective May 31.

Senate Commerce Committee adds telecom and tech aides: Cort Bush, ex-aide to Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, as professional staff member, and Crystal Tully, ex-aide to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as counsel ... FCC Wireless Bureau names Charles Mathias ombudsperson, single point of contact for issues of contraband wireless devices in correctional facilities and deployment of technologies used to combat them; he remains a bureau associate chief; agency notes the ombudsperson position stems from order commissioners approved at their meeting last week to combat such contraband devices (see 1703230056) ... Society for Science & the Public adds Kumar Garg, ex-Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior fellow.

FairPoint Communications names Mike Reed state president-Vermont, succeeding Beth Fastiggi, hired by the state's government as commissioner, Department of Human Resources; Reed remains the telco's state president-Maine ... Tessco Technologies reorganizes sales force, combining commercial sales and product teams under Senior Vice President Charles Kriete, now for commercial sales, product marketing and supply chain, and combines retail sales and product teams under Liz Robinson, promoted to senior vice president-retail sales and product marketing; Senior Vice President-Sales Pete Peterson resigns for personal reasons.