AT&T promotes Michael Wittrock to president-Southeast Region ... Vonage Holdings elects Hamid Akhavan, Long Arc Capital, to its board ... Lobbyist registrations: IDT911, a cybersecurity firm, The Madison Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Enterprise software firm SAP America, Covington & Burling, effective Nov. 18.
Cloud services provider Asentinel, names Philippe Lignac, ex-Minacom, chief sales officer.
Senior Partner Lew Paper of Pillsbury Winthrop retiring, effective Jan. 1 ... Twitter Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger decided to leave and take time off; the company said it's "taking steps to streamline and flatten the organization by elevating our engineering, product and design functions, with each area now reporting directly" to CEO Jack Dorsey ... Greylock Partners hires as a partner Josh McFarland, who it says will leave Twitter, where he was vice president-product, in late Q1 ... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promotes Lauren Reamy to deputy legislative director; among those joining the office are Samantha Roberts, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., as general counsel, and Bobby Zarate, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., as a senior foreign policy adviser.
Harris Wiltshire promotes to partners Adrienne Fowler, with technology and telecom clients; Stephen Miller, complex civil litigation and telecom law, among other areas; and Henry Shi, working on FCC issues and areas including fiber networks and subsea cable ... Richard Lara, ex-Mase Lara, named executive vice president-general counsel, Spanish Broadcasting System ... Amazon hires Arrow Augerot, ex-U.S. Trade Representative Office, as senior manager-public policy ... Autobrain, connected car platform, hires Yonah Lloyd, ex-Mobileye, as president and appoints Tim Leuliette, former Visteon CEO, adviser to the chairman ... TechTarget names Daniel Noreck, ex-Providence and Worcester Railroad, chief financial officer-treasurer ... Wikia appoints Dorth Raphaely, ex-Bleacher Report, as senior vice president-content for its entertainment fan website Fandom.
RIAA hires George York, ex-U.S. Trade Representative Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation, as senior vice president-international policy ... In office of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Chief of Staff Alberto Martinez named senior adviser, succeeded as COS by Clint Reed, who was campaign manager for Rubio’s 2016 reelection campaign ... Ford promotions include Bradley Gayton to group vice president-general counsel and Marcy Klevorn to group vice president-information technology and chief information officer.
In office of Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Jillian Wheeler is promoted to press assistant, succeeding Press Secretary Emily Long, who is leaving to become a full-time stay-at-home parent; Lee is also Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chairman ... Sunlight Foundation Communications Director Jenn Topper said she's leaving to pursue other opportunities, as part of the group's transition; in a blog post Friday titled "Sunlight will endure," it said that in the transition and under incoming Executive Director John Wonderlich, who previously did the job on an interim basis (see this section of the Jan. 6 of this publication), Alex Howard is promoted to deputy director; in September, the group said it was ending some operations.
Succeeding Dave Hoppe (see 1511060043) as chief of staff to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is Jonathan Burks, promoted as Hoppe is departing after the holidays to pursue a new, undisclosed opportunity ... Miller Barondess hires as a partner Jay Rakow, ex-ProCon.org, who focuses on media, entertainment and intellectual property ... At Time Warner, it said Warner Bros. Pictures President-Creative Development and Worldwide Production Greg Silverman "stepping away" from executive responsibilities to lead a new "multi-faceted" content production and media and technology-related entrepreneurial venture, with support from Warner Bros., effective Jan. 1; it said also taking effect then is Toby Emmerich promoted to president-chief content officer, Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
Common Ground Alliance hires attorney Sarah Magruder Lyle, ex-America’s Natural Gas Alliance, as president, effective Jan. 23; she succeeds Bob Kipp, president since the start of the stakeholder-run organization to protect underground lines; his presidency ends in late April ... Joining Fletcher Heald is Mark DeSantis as associate attorney; he came to the law firm from the Global Antitrust Institute, where his fellowship included research on international antitrust and intellectual property law ... 21st Century Fox names at Fox News Kevin Lord, ex-Tegna, executive vice president-human resources, effective Jan. 16 ... Salem Media Group hires Gregg Stiansen, ex-Nassau Media, as general manager, Philadelphia cluster of radio stations, succeeding Russ Whitnah, retiring effective Dec. 31.
Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council hires Rikin Thakker; a spokeswoman for the group said he remains at RF Academics, which he co-founded, in a consulting capacity and previously had been president; at MMTC, he is vice president-telecommunications and spectrum policy and the lead content developer for its Department of Labor contract with the National Urban League and the Wireless Infrastructure Association; the MMTC spokeswoman said Thakker succeeds Nicol Turner-Lee, who joined the Brookings Institution (see this section in the Nov. 8 edition of this publication) ... Cable One board promotes President-Chief Operating Officer Julie Laulis to CEO and a director, effective Jan. 1; she will continue as president; Laulis succeeds CEO-Chairman Tom Might, who remains as executive chairman.
BMC Software hires Peter Leav, ex-Polycom, which was bought by Siris Capital (see 1609270041), as president-CEO, succeeding Bob Beauchamp, who remains chairman ... Sinclair promotes John Solomon to chief operating officer-Circa, its newer brand that's mobile-friendly and has video news and entertainment ... Marvell Technology hires Thomas Lagatta, ex-Numecent and onetime Broadcom, as executive vice president-worldwide sales and marketing ... Cubic hires as vice presidents at Cubic Mission Solutions: Jerry Madigan, ex-Aerojet Rocketdyn, for secure communications, and Robert Peabody, ex-Northrop Grumman, systems strategy. ... Petra Industries elevates Jim Loden to vice president of e-commerce sales ... Quantcast sales hires include Brian Murphy, ex-Unified, as vice president-sales/head-East and Central regions ... Newly named to ATSC board for 2017: Paul Hearty, Sony Electronics; Jong Kim, LG Electronics; Peter Sockett, Capitol Broadcasting; Yiyan Wu, Communications Research Centre.