Lowenstein Sandler hires Evan Bienstock, ex-Mintz Levin, as partner, Tech group ... American Library Association names Roger Rosen, Rosen Publishing, senior adviser-Office for Information Technology Policy, and names to two-year terms on new Public Policy Advisory Council: Laurent Crenshaw, Yelp; Skip Dye, Penguin Random House; Amma Felix, United Negro College Fund; Alan Fishel, Arent Fox; Keith Krueger, Consortium for School Networking; Tiffany Moore and Michael Petricone, both from CTA; Piper Nieters Su, Advisory Board Co.; Katherine Oyama, Google; Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University; Brooks Rainwater, National League of Cities; Jocelyn Richgels, Rural Policy Research Institute; Tony Sarmiento, Senior Service America; Michael Scurato, National Hispanic Media Coalition; and David Young, Verizon.
Justice Department's Bill Baer, assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, named acting associate attorney general, effective April 17 and succeeding Stuart Delery ... McGlinchey Stafford hires Brian Koide, tech patent expert/attorney, as member, Intellectual Property/Commercial Litigation team ... Mozilla hires Sean White, ex-BrightSky Labs, as vice president-technology strategy, "with an initial focus on emerging technology opportunities" in virtual reality, augmented reality and connected devices ... Entertainment Software Association names Anastasia Staten, ex-American Humane Association, executive director, ESA Foundation ... National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications promotes James Jones to senior vice president-education and diversity solutions, and Sandra Girado to vice president-events and partner relations ... NewsON hires Derek Van Nostran, ex-CNN, as head-marketing.
Sprint hires Claudio Hidalgo, ex-Digicel Group, as president-Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands region ... Rovi hires Ted Schremp, ex-SmartHomes Ventures who also has worked in the cable industry, as chief marketing officer ... Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists elects Gabrielle Carteris, actress, president, after Ken Howard, 71, died (see report in the March 25 issue) March 23, and succeeding Carteris as executive vice president is Rebecca Damon, actress ... Universal Music Group hires Ty Roberts, Gracenote co-founder, as senior vice president-chief technology officer, new position, effective April 25 ... Engine hires Paul Geller, ex-CTA Audio Board and ex-Hangar, as managing director.
State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary-Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Daniel Sepulveda named chairman-designate of World Summit on the Information Society Forum ... SeaChange International promotes to CEO Ed Terino, who remains on the board, which fired CEO Jay Samit; the company's stock closed down 31 percent to $3.82 Friday after Terino said he was disappointed in the company's financial performance ... Viacom's Velocity integrated marketing and creative content division starting dedicated movie studio group in Los Angeles led by, in expanded roles, senior vice presidents Chris Lenz, creative and production, and Danielle Della Corna-Kupchak, integrated marketing ... Raycom names Daniel Cates, ex-WJHL-TV Johnson City, Tennessee, vice president-general manager, WCSC-TV Charleston, South Carolina, succeeding Rita Scott, retired.
AT&T promotes Tiffany Baehman to vice president-chief marketing officer, Cricket Wireless, succeeding Janna Ducich, recently promoted to vice president-general manager, AT&T Mobility New England region ... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts names to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for seven-year terms starting May 19 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Rudolph Contreras and U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida Judge Anne Conway, FISC website says ... Emerson Electric promotes Sara Yang Bosco to senior vice president-secretary and general counsel, effective May 15, succeeding Timothy Westman, who did those jobs on an interim basis since August and is retiring ... Rubicon Project hires Harry Patz, ex-Velti, as chief revenue officer, and Rob Deichert, ex-Criteo, as head-global revenue operations ... Motorsport Network hires Steven Ewing, ex-Verizon's Autoblog.com, as managing editor, Motor1.com ... Acacia Research adds to board Frank Walsh, Jupiter Capital Management Partners.
C-SPAN promotes Richard Weinstein to vice president-digital media, and he is succeeded in last position by Ben O'Connell, promoted to managing editor, while Robert Browning, Purdue University professor, moves to executive director, C-SPAN archives ... Returning to Bartko Zankel is Chuck La Bella, ex-DOJ Fraud Section, as of counsel, working on several issues including privacy ... Library of Congress adds Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at University of Southampton, England, as Kluge Center Kluge chair in Technology and Society ... Fusion hires John Hendler, ex-Windstream, as senior vice president-sales ... MFour Mobile Research hires Mike Boehm, ex-Los Angeles Times, as director-communications ... ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg to keynote NAB Show's Satellite Industry Forum April 19, 1 p.m., Room S225, Las Vegas Convention Center ... Groupon, following $250 million investment from Atairos, adds to board the investment firm's Michael Angelakis, ex-chief financial officer of Comcast, which now may work with Groupon ... FTE Networks adds to board Patrick O'Hare, ZenFi Networks ... Whitepages adds to board Whitney Bouck, HelloSign ... Lobbyist registration: News Corp., registering on behalf of itself, effective April 1.
CTA promotes to vice presidents Kara Dickerson for strategic partnerships and conferences, Ellen Savage, membership programs, and Tyler Suiters, communications ... Samsung Electronics America promotes to senior directors Steve Merlis, for government relations, and Megan Pollock, strategic communications ... Hunton & Williams starts Cyber and Physical Security Task Force, which is led by global privacy and cybersecurity head Lisa Sotto, cybersecurity partner Paul Tiao and energy partner Kevin Jones ... Marvell Technology CEO Sehat Sutardja and President Weili Dai leave jobs and remain on board, with Sutardja continuing as chairman; Marvell said it has started Interim Office of the Chief Executive headed by interim co-CEOs Executive Vice President, Smart Networked Devices and Solutions Business Group Maya Strelar-Migotti and Executive Vice President, Storage Business Group Pantelis Alexopoulos; other members of the office are Chief Technology Officer Zining Wu, Interim Chief Financial Officer David Eichler, Senior Vice President-General Counsel Tom Savage and Vice President-Global Human Resources William Valle.
Disney Chief Operating Officer Thomas Staggs leaving that job, effective May 6, but will remain as a special adviser to CEO Robert Iger through the fiscal year ... Univision Communications starts Corporate Social Responsibility Council, being led by Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, executive vice president-government & corporate affairs, and Chad Boettcher, senior vice president-social impact; they also co-chair external advisory board to the council; and at the company, Steven Levine named vice president-corporate social responsibility, new position, and Ron Estrada expands role to vice president-national community empowerment ... Transparent Media Partners hires Eric Bader, ex-RadiumOne, to oversee operations ... Nexstar promotes Ward Huey to vice president-general manager, KETK-TV Jacksonville, Texas, associated digital properties and overseeing joint operating agreement with White Knight Broadcasting for stations including KFXK-TV Longview.
Baller Herbst law firm changes name to Baller Stokes with Bradley Hagen hiring Adrian Herbst, ex-partner, as member, and his daughter, Leslie Saporito, ex-associate ... National Association of Counties hires Linda Langston, resigning as Linn County, Iowa, supervisor, as director-strategic relations, effective April 18; she previously was president of the group ... Sprint hires former Verizon Wireless executives Pat Devlin as president, Northeast area, and Mariano Legaz as chief procurement officer ... Comcast hires Mara Arakelian, ex-Bobo Producciones, as senior vice president-talent management, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, succeeding Mario Ruiz, recently promoted (see 1603280031) ... Tessco Technologies CEO Robert Barnhill will become executive chairman after a new CEO is hired ... Lobbyist registrations: Ligado Networks, registering on behalf of itself, effective Feb. 16 ... Pro Data Key, a firm focused on mesh wireless access control products and cloud services, JM Burkman & Associates, effective March 22 ... Smartronix, IT solutions provider, Cornerstone Government Affairs, effective Feb. 1.
Visteon names Corporate Controller William Robertson to serve as interim chief financial officer until a permanent replacement is hired for Jeff Stafeil, who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities ... Chinese e-commerce merchant 58.com promotes Hongyu Xing to chief technology officer.