George Mason University Law School hires David Rehr, ex-George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management and NAB, as professor of law and senior associate dean ... Beasley Broadcast CEO George Beasley takes medical leave of absence, remaining chairman; Caroline Beasley, executive vice president-chief financial officer, named interim CEO ... Windstream promotes Jarrod Berkshire to president-operations, Georgia ... TDS promotes Jane McCahon to senior vice president-corporate relations and corporate secretary ... Visteon hires Markus Schupfner, ex-Elektrobit Automotive, as chief technology officer, effective April 1, responsible for Visteon activities in autonomous vehicle development ... CyrusOne hires Kellie Teal-Guess, ex-ProQuest, as executive vice president-chief people officer ... USA Technologies, mobile and other transactions technology provider, moves Michael Lawlor to chief services officer, and adds to board Robert Metzger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business ... Visionet Systems, technology consulting firm, hires Bill McNamara, ex-title insurance executive, as chief strategy officer.
NAB hires Ray Baum, ex-House Commerce Committee aide, as vice president-government relations, effective March 31 ... President Barack Obama plans to nominate James Dempsey, a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, to remain a PCLOB member; he also is executive director of University of California Berkeley Law School's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology ... Shutterfly hires Christopher North, leaving Amazon UK, as CEO and names him a director, all effective May 31; Chairman Phil Marineau will continue serving as interim CEO until North's arrival ... Mobile data solutions provider Recipero hires David Dillard, ex-Verizon Wireless, as managing director-Americas ... Society of Satellite Professionals International names for one-year terms: Bryan McGuirk, ViviSat, chairman; and Dawn Harms, Boeing Satellite Systems International, president; to three-year director terms: Mike Donovan, Scripps Networks Interactive; Gary Hatch, ATCi; and Ruy Pinto, Inmarsat; and Ed Giovannini, Ericsson, named treasurer, succeeding Harms.
Gilat promotes Yona Ovadia to CEO, effective March 31, succeeding interim CEO Dov Baharav, who remains chairman ... Intelsat promotes Skot Butler to president-Intelsat General, effective April 4, succeeding Kay Sears, who leaves "to pursue a new professional opportunity" ... Comcast hires Sridhar Solur, ex-HP Inc., as senior vice president-product development, Xfinity Home and IoT, Comcast Cable ... Qualcomm hires Mary Gendron, ex-Hospira, as senior vice president-chief information officer ... Viacom independent directors elect Frederic Salerno, ex-Verizon, lead independent director, new position; and company extends by two years the contract of Senior Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Thomas Dooley through Dec. 31, 2018 ... Geoffrey Blackwell, Amerind Risk and ex-FCC, elected to board of Native Public Media ... Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council adds to board Steven Roberts, Roberts Cos., and Rodney Sampson, Opportunity Ecosystem.
Small Business Administration hires Tracy Terrill, ex-LegalZoom, as chief digital officer, new position ... Electronic Frontier Foundation hires Ernesto Omar Falcon, ex-Public Knowledge, as legislative counsel ... Lionsgate hires James Marsh, ex-Piper Jaffray, as senior vice president-investor relations ... ChannelAdvisor hires Lance Phillips, ex-Youth Digital, as U.S. vice president-services ... Lobbyist registrations: Google, Swan Creek Strategies, effective Feb. 1 ... SpaceX, Harbinger Strategies, effective Feb. 1 ... Bitmanagement Software, interactive, real-time 3D and multimedia software developer, McLarty Inbound, effective Feb. 1.
Garvey Schubert hires cable and communications lawyer Art Harding, ex-Locke Lord, as of counsel ... Returning to AT&T is Peter Jacoby, ex-UnitedHealth Group, as vice president-federal relations and director-legislative strategy ... Raycom promotes Pat LaPlatney to president-CEO, succeeding Paul McTear, retiring effective at the end of June, and promotes Susana Schuler to executive vice president-content & operations ... Shaw Communications promotes Jay Mehr to president and adds "accountabilities" for regulatory and government relations for Peter Johnson, executive vice president-chief legal and regulatory officer ... Disney promotes to vice presidents Lauren Kisilevsky for original movies, Disney Channel, and Jonas Agin for original series, Disney Channel and Disney XD.
Financial Services Roundtable hires Adam Rice, aide to Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, as communications director, and Jon Evans, ex-Targeted Victory, as senior manager-digital strategy ... Brightstar hires Cassio Calil, ex-J.P. Morgan, as head-global financial solutions ... Tremor Video hires Andy Morley, ex-Grapeshot, as managing director, U.K. and head, London office ... Panasonic System Communications hires Brian Rowley, ex-Verizon, as director-marketing and product management, responsible for Toughpad tablets, Toughbook laptops and related products and services ... Lobbyist registrations: telemedicine firm Higo, American Defense International, effective March 1 ... telemedicine firm Zeriscope, American Defense International, effective Feb. 1.
FCC Incentive Auction Task Force adds Erin Griffith, Wireless Bureau Auctions & Spectrum Access Division attorney-adviser, as legal adviser, succeeding Mary Margaret Jackson, leaving the agency to pursue professional interests outside of Washington ... Univision Communications hires Jed Meyer, ex-Omnicom Media Group's Annalect, as executive vice president-corporate research ... Jim Hackett, ex-Steelcase CEO, relinquishes his seat on Ford board to become chairman of Ford Smart Mobility, new subsidiary formed "to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services" ... Amazon Vice President-Digital Video Michael Paull to keynote NAB Show’s Online Video Conference April 18, 10:30 a.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, Room N249 ... Autodesk, which reached deals with Eminence Capital and Sachem Head Capital Management, adds to board Scott Ferguson, Sachem Head, Rick Hill, Tessera Technologies, and Jeff Clarke, Kodak ... Lobbyist registrations: Entertainment Studios Networks and the National Association of African American Owned Media, Emmer Consulting, effective March 10 ... SpaceX, S.O. Witt and Associates, effective Feb. 12.
Crown Castle hires Daniel Schlanger, ex-Exterran, as chief financial officer, effective June 1, and as senior vice president, effective April 1 ... National Foreign Trade Council board names Rufus Yerxa, ex-World Trade Organization and previously at Akin Gump, with clients including AT&T, president, effective May 9 and succeeding Bill Reinsch ... Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group hires Christine Birch, ex-Focus Features, as executive vice president-domestic creative marketing strategy, new post ... Luminus Networks hires Darius Goodall, ex-Dell, as vice president-product marketing and business development ... Connected Vehicle Trade Association elects to board Terry Hughes, AppCarousel ... Yahoo adds to board Catherine Friedman, ex-Morgan Stanley, and Eric Brandt, ex-Broadcom ... Cloud Native Computing Foundation names to Technical Oversight Committee Jonathan Boulle, CoreOS, Bryan Cantrill, Joyent, industry expert Camille Fournier, Benjamin Hindman, Mesosphere, Ken Owens, Cisco, and Alexis Richardson, WeaveWorks ... Lobbyist registrations: Comcast, Cox Enterprises, Farragut Partners on behalf of 21st Century Privacy Coalition, NCTA and T-Mobile, Rivendell Group, all effective Jan. 1 ... IT consulting firm Wilco Technologies, Kit Bond Strategies, effective March 1.
Mintz Levin hires Alyssia Bryant, ex-Keller and Heckman, as associate, Communications Section, focusing on wireless and accessibility issues ... Univision Communications promotes Daniel Coronell to president-news ... Starry hires Kristen Morrissey Thiede, ex-Metamorphic Ventures, as senior vice president-business development and corporate strategy ... Quantcast promotes Stephen Collins to president-chief financial officer, and said it recently promoted Phil Macauley to global vice president-sales and hired Sandra McDevitt, ex-Google, as vice president-people & places ... Russell Reynolds Associates hires industry experts for Technology Practice: Jeff Yolen, running Software Practice, East Coast, and Başak Ozer, working on IoT, mobile, digital, wearables, Internet and big data issues.
FCC confirms it hired David Grossman, ex-aide to House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., as chief of staff and media policy adviser to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn; it also named Daudeline Meme, ex-Enforcement Bureau, aide to Clyburn for wireless, international and public safety issues; Louis Peraertz leaving as Clyburn's senior legal adviser ... Discovery Communications promotes David Leavy to chief corporate operations and communications officer, with oversight of technology and other areas ... Internet Association hires S.Y. Lee, ex-Department of Homeland Security, as communications director, succeeding Nika Nour, hired previously by Entertainment Software Association.