Microsoft names Amrote Abdella regional director, 4Afrika Initiative, succeeding Fernando de Sousa ... FCC names to Universal Service Administrative Co. board, it said, as of Nov. 1: Joel Lubin, consultant to AT&T, representing incumbent LECs; Robert Bocher, consultant to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, libraries getting discounts; Wayne Jortner, New Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate, state consumer advocates; Matt Gerst, CTIA, CMRS providers; Jose Jimenez, Cox Communications, cable operators; Daniel Domenech, American Association of School Administrators, and Brian Talbott, Association of Educational Service Agencies, both for schools that are eligible to receive discounts; Ellis Jacobs, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, low-income consumers; Joseph Gillan, Gillan Associates, competitive LECs; Katharine Hsu Wibberly, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, rural healthcare providers; Geoffrey Feiss, Montana Telecommunications Association, incumbent LECs with $40 million or less in annual revenue; and Atilla Tinic, Level 3, interexchange carriers with $3 billion or less in annual revenue ... Lobbyist registrations: Credo Action, Sean Vitka, effective Sept. 9 ... NAB, Kelly Cole Strategies, effective Aug. 17 ... 21st Century Fox, Elmendorf Ryan, effective Sept. 1.

Wilkinson Barker hires broadcast-TV and media lawyer Howard Liberman, ex-Drinker Biddle, as partner ... National Foreign Trade Council President Bill Reinsch retiring, effective in April ... Maryland Public Service Commission hires Tori Leonard, ex-Rosborough Communications, as director-communications ... MRV Communications hires Adam Scheer, ex-Viavi Solutions, as senior vice president-product line management and corporate development, new position ... Five9 names Michael Burdiek, CalAmp, to board ... Lobbyist registrations: First Data, Capitol Counsel and O'Rourke & Nappi, both effective Sept. 1.

Returning to Campbell Killin is Jim Campbell, ex-CenturyLink, as partner at the law firm, which works on areas including telecom ... Madison Square Garden Co. promotes Donna Coleman to executive vice president-chief financial officer after she was interim CFO, and hires John Caparella, ex-Venetian, Palazzo and Sands Expo and Convention Center, as executive vice president-venue management, effective Oct. 26 ... Scripps Networks promotes Henry Ahn to president-content distribution & marketing ... Discovery Communications hires Karen Leever, ex-DirecTV, as executive vice president and general manager-digital media ... Deloitte promotes Sandra Shirai to lead its U.S. technology, media and telecom practice, the first woman in such a position at the firm ... Accenture shifts Marc Carrel-Billiard to managing director, global technology research & development, Accenture Technology, and he will oversee Accenture Technology Labs.

USTelecom Senior Executive Vice President Alan Roth to retire, effective sometime next year ... OneWeb hires Matthew O’Connell, ex-consultant, as CEO ... Application Developers Alliance names Jake Ward permanent president, and also CEO, succeeding as planned Jon Potter, who stepped down in September ... Electronic Frontier Foundation hires Barak Weinstein, a former EFF legal secretary, as executive assistant ... AnyClip Media, content marketing platform for distributing branded video, hires Gil Becker, ex-myThings, as CEO, succeeding Oren Nauman ... Wilson Electronics hires Curtis Burkhart, ex-SureCall, as director-enterprise sales ... Twitter hires Omid Kordestani, ex-Google, as executive chairman.

Entertainment Software Association hires for legal team Ben Golant, ex-Patent and Trademark Office, as chief counsel-IP policy, and Bijou Mgbojikwe, ex-International Trade Association, as counsel-IP policy ... Open Gaming Alliance names Wanda Meloni, on its board as vice president, executive director ... Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hires Tim Maurer, ex-New America, as associate, to help lead new cyberpolicy project on developing norms for offensive cyber operations ... Sinclair moves Chief Operating Officer, Original Programming Arthur Hasson to COO, Sinclair Programming, and promotes William Butler to senior vice president-promotion and corporate marketing ... Birch Communications hires Grant Williams, ex-FusionConnect, as vice president-customer care ... Imax hires Jessica Kourakos, ex-CBS, as senior vice president-investor relations.

President Barack Obama appoints Raymond Dolan, Sonus Networks, to President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ... Communications Engineering Inc. (CEI) promotes Michael Jones to vice president-sales and marketing ... North American Numbering Council appointees: Chair Betty Ann Kane, D.C. Public Service Commission; Marilyn Jones, FCC Wireline Bureau, designated federal officer; and members ATL Communications' Aelea Christofferson, AT&T's Henry Hultquist, Bandwidth.com's Greg Rogers, CenturyLink's Mary Retka, Comcast's Valerie Caldwell, the Competitive Carriers Association's Rebecca Murphy Thompson, Comptel's Alan Hill, Cox Communications' Jose Jimenez, CTIA's Matthew Gerst, 800 Response Information Services' David Greenhaus, Level 3 Communications' Scott Seab, with NARUC's Paul Kjellander (Idaho), Lynn Slaby (Ohio), Crystal Rhoades (Nebraska), Karen Charles (Massachusetts), Scott Rupp (Missouri), National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates' Helen Mickiewicz, NCTA's Jerome Candelaria, NTCA's Stephen Pastorkovich, SIP Forum's Richard Shockey, SMS/800's Gina Perini, Sprint Nextel's Rosemary Emmer, T-Mobile USA's Michele Thomas, USTelecom's Thomas Soroka, Verizon's Ann Berkowitz, Vonage's Brendan Kasper and XO Communications' Tiki Gaugler

Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission names Brian Thomas, acting director-policy, to job permanently, and hires Amanda Cecil, ex-state Senate Transportation Committee, as legislative director ... CBS promotes Deborah Barak to president-business operations ... FWD.us hires Michael Rekola, ex-office of Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, as communications director ... Goodman Networks promotes Joy Brawner to chief financial officer, succeeding interim CFO Geoff Miller ... Cox Enterprises hires Charlene Binder, ex-ABB, as senior vice president-human resources ... Industrial Internet Consortium elects to steering committee Tanja Rueckert, SAP, and John Tuccillo, Schneider Electric ... Among those newly elected to board of Ad Council, it said, are Jerri DeVard, ADT, Jonathan Mildenhall, Airbnb, Laura Nelson, Nielsen, Eli Pariser, Upworthy, Christina Smedley, PayPal, and Nada Stirratt, Verve.

Visa hires Demetrios Marantis, ex-Square and former acting U.S. trade representative, as senior vice president-global government relations ... JSI hires Dave Lewis, ex-consultant to ILECs, as vice president-product innovation ... eBay changes to Americas Government Relations team include promoting Senior Director David London to head of the team, and hiring Laura Dooley as senior manager, North American government relations ... Mozilla hires Ari Jaaksi, ex-Intel, as senior vice president-connected devices, effective next month ... Verve Mobile hires Kevin Arrix, ex-SFX Entertainment, as chief revenue officer ... Comcast moves Janet Uthman to vice president-inclusion and multicultural marketing, Northeast division.

Cable Center promotes Jana Henthorn to president-CEO, succeeding Larry Satkowiak once he retires as planned (see 1507220030) Jan. 1 ... Dish Network promotes Jessica Straus to director-government affairs ... Avaya hires Morag Lucey, ex-VirtualCMO who used to work for Avaya, as chief marketing officer, and Steve Biondi, ex-Oracle, as vice president-Global Partner Organization, new position ... EMC hires John Finney, ex-O3b, as chief commercial officer ... Voip-Pal.com hires Barry Lee, expert in financial management, as chief financial officer ... USA Fiber, builder and operator of dark-fiber networks, hires Jeremy Latimer, ex-FiberLight, as vice president-sales ... Public Knowledge adds to board Virginia Lam Abrams, Project Decibel, Moses Boyd, Integrated Solutions Group, Laurent Crenshaw, Yelp, and Frank Torres, Microsoft, and names board member Maura Colleton Corbett, Glen Echo Group, chairwoman, PK said ... Lobbyist registrations: ACT Inc., on student data privacy protection, Foresight Law + Policy, effective Aug. 26 ... Digital Reasoning, cognitive computing firm, Efrus Federal Advisors, effective Oct. 1 ... NAB, Hogan Lovells, effective Sept. 25.

Charter Communications hires as executive vice presidents: Philip Meeks, now at Time Warner Cable, and he also will be president, business enterprise services, effective once Charter buys TWC; Paul Marchand, ex-PepsiCo, for human resources; and David Kline, ex-Visible World, who also is named president-media sales ... Decisive Communications, provider of services to cable operators, promotes Gregg Sanders to president ... Twitter names interim CEO Jack Dorsey to that job permanently, and he remains on the board, though he won't be chairman and he will remain CEO of Square Inc.; Twitter moves Adam Bain to chief operating officer, while Richard Costolo resigns from the board, it said in SEC filing ... Gannett hires Kelly Andresen, who used to work on digital and other issues for The Washington Post, as vice president-branded content, in mobile, video, data visualization and virtual reality ... Disney moves Tish Graham to vice president-broadcast technology, ABC Owned Television Station Group ... Richard Atkinson, Adobe Systems global director-piracy conversion, to keynote Content Protection Summit: Europe Oct. 21, Grand Connaught Rooms, London ... Lobbyist registrations: AT&T, Valente & Associates, effective Oct. 1 ... NTCA, Arent Fox, effective Aug. 20 ... Overstock.com, Park Strategies, effective Aug. 15.