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.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development names Doug Frantz, ex-U.S. State Department, deputy secretary general, effective Nov. 1 ... At Goodwin Procter, lawyers elected to the firm’s partnership include, in technology & life sciences: Jason Breen, Andrew Hill and Jacqueline Mercier; and in IP litigation Robert Frederickson and Srikanth Reddy ... At McDonald Hopkins, Dominic Paluzzi, lawyer in the national Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice, elected to the firm's membership, essentially equivalent to being promoted to partner ... Viacom hires Julian Zilberbrand, ex-ZenithOptimedia, as executive vice president-audience science, effective Oct. 19 ... Technicolor hires Luis Martinez Amago, Alcatel-Lucent, as president of its Connected Home division for the North American market ... ShoreTel adds to board Josef Vejvoda, Jove Capital.
FCC moves Claude Aiken to Office of General Counsel as associate general counsel and special adviser-Internet law and policy, taking over portfolio of Stephanie Weiner, who recently moved to Chairman Tom Wheeler's office to work on wireline issues and to succeed the departing Daniel Alvarez (see 1509240035); also at the agency, OGC moves William Dever to front office and names him special counsel-broadband competition policy, with focus on wireline and video competition, and to continue working for the transaction team, including on Charter Communications buying Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable ... Pillsbury hires Patrick Murck, ex-Bitcoin Foundation, as special counsel, Corporate & Securities Technology practice section.
Cumulus Media hires Mary Berner, ex-Association of Magazine Media and a current director of Cumulus, as CEO, effective Oct. 13, succeeding Lew Dickey, who becomes vice chairman ... C Spire hires Stephen Bye, ex-Sprint, as chief technology officer, effective Nov. 1 ... Time Warner promotes Craig Barry to executive vice president-production and chief content officer, Turner Sports, adding oversight of a new (see 1509240042) e-sports league ... Among other management assignments at comScore after it buys Rentrak (see 1509300031), the companies said, Magid Abraham remains executive chairman, Mel Wesley remains chief financial officer, and David Chemerow, Rentrak current chief operating officer and CFO, will advise CEO Serge Matta, focused on integration of the companies ... Pandora elects to board Mickie Rosen, ex-Yahoo ... eBay adds to board Paul Pressler, Clayton Dubilier.
Hulu hires Ben Smith, ex-Sonos, as senior vice president-head, experience ... Wireless Telecom Group hires Daniel Monopoli, ex-LeCroy, as general manager-test and measurement, overseeing Boonton Electronics and Noisecom ... CyrusOne Chief Financial Officer-Administrative Officer Kimberly Sheehy leaving, will be an employee through year's end and then a consultant on its SEC annual report, being succeeded by Gregory Andrews, ex-Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, hired as executive vice president effective Oct. 19, and to become CFO after SEC 10-Q filed for Q3 ... TVB hires Brian Wexler, ex-WTSP St. Petersburg, Florida, as vice president-Local Division ... Nexstar names Craig Marrs, ex-KMIR-TV Palm Springs, California, vice president-general manager, WFFF-TV Burlington, Vermont, and associated digital and mobile services; he also will oversee WVNY Burlington through a joint operating agreement with Mission Broadcasting.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court names Preston Burton amicus curiae on a matter involving NSA collection of phone metadata ... Westell Technologies President, In-Building Wireless Inc. Scott Goodrich resigns, effective Oct. 2; Tom Gruenwald, Westell CEO, named interim general manager of the unit and Goodrich to be a part-time consultant through this year ... Scripps Networks promotions involving senior vice presidents are Shannon Jamieson Driver for network marketing & creative services, Freddy James, network integrated programming, Alaka Williams, network human resources, and Cheryl Middleton Jones, international human resources; it promotes Gabriel Gordon to vice president-network research ... Elephant Talk Communications, software defined network architecture and cybersecurity firm, separating roles of chairman and CEO, with Steven van der Velden remaining chairman and to step down as CEO once a successor is named, and Roderick de Greef, who had been on the board, again named a director ... Epix hires Ben Tappan, ex-Landscape Entertainment, as vice president-scripted programming ... Lobbyist registration: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Innovative Federal Strategies, effective Aug. 1.
Time Warner hires Lauren Hurvitz, ex-Starcom Mediavest Group, as executive vice president-chief communications and corporate marketing officer, Turner Broadcasting System ... Univision Communications promotes to senior vice presidents, Univision Deportes, Eric Conrad for programming and acquisitions and Olek Loewenstein for strategy and operations.
Discovery Communications hires Paul Guyardo, ex-DirecTV, which now is part of AT&T, as chief commercial officer, new position and effective Oct. 5, while Bruce Campbell expands responsibilities, named chief development, distribution & legal officer ... Trustworthy Accountability Group hires Rachel Nyswander Thomas, now at Direct Marketing Association, as senior vice president-operations and policy, effective Oct. 12 ... National Cable Television Cooperative hired John Childress, ex-WideOpenWest, as vice president-product strategy and management, effective in May, NCTC says this week ... Technology CEO Council names Mark Durcan, Micron Technology, chairman, succeeding Ursula Burns, Xerox, and adds Safra Catz, Oracle, and Tom Leighton, Akamai.