ARRL directors elect Tom Gallagher, ex-TV cameraman and then investment banker, CEO-secretary, effective April 18, succeeding David Sumner, and, effective Feb. 29, Gallagher joins staff as CEO-elect ... National Geographic Society and 21st Century Fox joint venture National Geographic Partners hires Laura Nichols, ex-MPAA, as senior vice president-chief communications officer, new position ... Newsy, over-the-top video news service, starts Washington office in bureau of its parent company Scripps, led by Director-News Zach Toombs ... EMC promotes Denis Cashman to chief financial officer, effective March 1, when he succeeds Zane Rowe, who on that day becomes CFO of the company's VMware, which EMC noted will remain a public company after EMC's takeover by Dell ... Riverbed Technology hires Subbu Iyer, ex-EMC, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer.

Comtech EF Data hires Mark Toppenberg, ex-Teledyne Microwave Solutions, as senior vice president-sales and marketing strategy, new position at the company where he used to work ... Verve hires Pratiksha Patel, ex- Centric Digital, as chief people officer, new position ... CenturyLink adds Martha Bejar, ex-Flow Mobile, to board, from which Joseph Zimmel resigned ... IBM adds Mark Fields, Ford, to board, from which Alain Belda and William Brody are retiring.

NPR promotes Stephanie Miller to oversee operations and staff of Digital Services, where Jason Butler expands responsibilities ... Entravision promotes Lilly Gonzalez to executive vice president-integrated marketing solutions, East Coast, and Humberto Hormaza to senior vice president-integrated marketing solutions, Orlando ... Gannett hires Michael Kuntz, ex-Gawker Media, as senior vice president-digital revenue, USA Today ... Twitter hires Leslie Berland, ex-American Express, as chief marketing officer; leaving company are Senior Vice President-Engineering Alex Roetter, Senior Vice President-Product Kevin Weil, Vice President-Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton and Vice President-Human Resources Brian Schipper ... Time Warner hires Corinna Keller, ex-Viacom, returning to CNN, as vice president-advertising sales, Americas, CNN International Commercial.

Discovery Communications hires Suzanne Kolb, ex-E! Entertainment, as executive vice president-general manager, overseeing Web brands and series, digital development, Discovery VR and social partnerships ... Univision Communications hires Alejandro Nieto Molina, ex-Cadena SER, as senior vice president-general manager, radio, new position ... F5 Networks hires Mike Convertino, ex-CrowdStrike, as chief information security officer, new position ... LiveIntent, email-based advertising platform, hires Jason Kelly, ex-Rapt, as president ... Interactive Advertising Bureau board elects: Lauren Wiener, Tremor Video, chair; she's succeeded by Jim Norton, Verizon's AOL, as vice chairman; new to board are John Frelinghuysen, Disney/ABC Television Group, Jed Hartman, Washington Post, Robb Richter, Media General, Michael Rubenstein, AppNexus, Rick Welday, AT&T AdWorks, and Joe Zawadzki, MediaMath; ex-officio board members include: Stu Ingis, Venable ... ATSC board elects Richard Friedel, Fox Networks, as chairman, succeeding Glenn Reitmeier, NBC Universal, who remains on ATSC board.

HTC promotes Jason Mackenzie to global executive vice president, and André Lönne to president, HTC Americas ... Time Warner promotes Valerie Immele to senior vice president-business, Turner Sports, and names Amit Chaturvedi, ex-Taykey, senior vice president-revenue operations and platforms, Turner ... Lobbyist registrations: Akin Gump on behalf of Federated Wireless, The Roosevelt Group, effective Jan. 1 ... American Broadband and Telecommunications Co., Kelley Drye, effective Dec. 1 ... CenturyLink, Ernst & Young, effective Oct. 7 ... Charter Communications and Intel, The Raben Group, both effective May 31 ... Comcast, Scrivner Leon Group, effective Jan. 4 ... ITTA, Mercury Strategies, effective Nov. 16 ... Raytheon, American Continental Group, effective Nov. 1.

Kerbey Harrington hires John Raposa, ex-Verizon, as of counsel ... Among those Comcast adds in Twin Cities Region are Dan Gillan, promoted to vice president-sales & marketing, and Rachel Williams, ex-General Dynamics, as vice president-engineering ... LifeLock promotes Hilary Schneider to CEO, and she joins board, succeeding Todd Davis, who becomes executive vice chairman; director Roy Guthrie becomes chairman, effective March 1 ... Internet Infrastructure Coalition names Christian Dawson, who now no longer is chairman, its first full-time executive director; David Snead, chairman of public policy working group, named the coalition's chairman ... At Microsoft, Jenny Lay-Flurrie moves to chief accessibility officer, succeeding Rob Sinclair, leading accessibility efforts in Windows and Devices Group; Susan Hauser moved to corporate vice president-new Business and Corporate Responsibility Group.

LeoSat Enterprises hires Ronald van der Breggen, ex-SES, as chief commercial officer ... Westell Technologies promotes Rick Good to senior vice president-in-building wireless, from acting, and hires Oscar Hernandez, ex-Global Optical Networking Products, as senior vice president-engineering and outside plant ... Genband names Patrick Joggerst, who was chief marketing officer, executive vice president-global sales and marketing ... Digital Realty Trust hires Tony Rossabi as managing director-Telx, which Digital Realty bought in October and where he was an executive vice president ... Verve hires Gian LaVecchia, ex-MEC Global, as vice president-client strategy and development ... Lumos Networks names as directors Lawrence Askowitz, Gabriel Advisors, and Shawn O’Donnell, FTI Consulting.

Wireless 20/20 hires Fred Campbell, Center for Boundless Innovation in Technology, as senior policy adviser ... Greenberg Traurig hires Rudolph Giuliani, ex-Bracewell, as global chairman-Cybersecurity and Crisis Management Practice, and senior adviser to Executive Chairman Richard Rosenbaum ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers promotes to senior vice presidents-membership Nicole George-Middleton and Shawn LeMone ... ICANN hires In-Pyo Hwang, ex-Korea Internet & Security Agency, as head, Korea, succeeding Hyun-O Kwon, leaving organization to focus on her family ... Relativity Media hires Tamoor Shafi, ex-Omnia Media, as chief digital officer ... Pioneer Japan promotes Satoshi Ohdate to general manager, Consumer Car Electronics Business Division, and Ichio Kitamura to general manager, OEM Car Electronics Business Division ... Resonant, components supplier for mobile devices, hires advisory board member Barry Waxman as vice president-sales and marketing, new post ... Lobbyist registrations: The Advertising Coalition, Polsinelli, effective Jan. 1 ... Intel, Akin Gump, effective Dec. 1, and TwinLogic Strategies, effective Nov. 9 ... Major League Baseball, The Duberstein Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Windstream, Ernst & Young, effective Dec. 16.

Sinclair promotes David Gibber to vice president-deputy general counsel, Scott Shapiro to vice president-corporate development and Dana Feldman to vice president-promotions ... Engine advocacy group names Evan Engstrom, who has been its policy director, acting executive director; Julie Samuels steps down as executive director, remains president of its board ... Sprint names more regional presidents, including: hiring Jim Mills, ex-Vonage, as president-Illinois and Wisconsin Region, succeeding Tracy Nolan, moving to senior vice president-sales, office of the CEO; Johan Chung, ex-LG Electronics, as president-Northern California and Nevada Region; and Greg Post, ex-Recipero, as president-Mountain and Southwest Region ... Zinwave, wideband distributed network provider for in-building wireless and IP, hires Scott Willis, ex-Goodman Networks, as CEO.

Keller & Heckman promotes Wesley Wright to partner, practicing telecom law ... Patent and Trademark Office hires Molly Kocialski, ex-Oracle America, as director-Rocky Mountain Regional Office ... Sprint hires Glen Flowers, ex-GWF Consulting, as president-Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana Region, and he previously worked at the carrier, and Conrad Hunter, ex-Tranlin, as president-New England Region, and promotes Karen Paletta to president-New York City, New Jersey, Central Pennsylvania and Delaware Region, and she remains regional vice president-consumer sales, Northeast, until new regional structure rolls out in 2017 ... GoPro Entertainment Senior Vice President Zander Lurie resigns to become CEO at SurveyMonkey, but is appointed to GoPro board.