Steve Molina, ex-Defense Information Systems Agency, joins NTIA as deputy associate administrator, Office of Spectrum Management ... University of Colorado-Boulder's Philip Weiser steps down as dean of the law school and returns to its faculty, effective July 1, 2016, and remains executive director, Silicon Flatirons ... Disney moves for Disney Television Animation Studio: promotes Eric Coleman to senior vice president-original programming/general manager, and Jonathan Schneider to vice president-strategy; hires Aaron Simpson, ex-Mondo Media, as vice president-development; promotes Shane Prigmore to vice president-creative affairs; and hires Bonnie Lemon, ex-DreamWorks Animation, as vice president-production ... Jason Allen, ex-Participant Media, rejoins Sony Pictures Entertainment as vice president-corporate communications ... Lycos adds to board Michael Mauldin, creator of the Web search technology ... Lobbyist registration: Xilinx, Lincoln Policy Group including ex-Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., effective July 8.
GCI hires Kara Leibin Azocar, ex-Covington & Burling, as regulatory counsel-federal affairs ... GSM Association hires Mats Granryd, ex-Tele2 Group, as director general and board member, effective Jan. 1 ... NII Holdings names Francisco Tosta Valim Filho, ex-Via Varejo, president, Nextel Brazil, succeeding Gokul Hemmady, and adds to board Robert Schriesheim, Sears ... Rovi hires Michael Hawkey, ex-EchoStar's Sling Media, as senior vice president-general manager, Discovery business group ... Coalfire hires Steve Deitsch, ex-Biomet, as chief financial officer ... Riverbed Technology hires Bjorn Engelhardt, ex-Actifio, as senior vice president, Riverbed Asia Pacific and Japan ... Belden names to board Jonathan Klein, Tapp Media and ex-CNN.
With AT&T's Wayne Watts retiring as senior executive vice president-general counsel effective Sept. 30, David McAtee promoted to senior executive vice president-general counsel, effective Oct. 1. ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hires Mark Sperling, ex-Allen & Co., as senior vice president-strategy and business development ... Park Electrochemical promotes Anthony DiGaudio to vice president-marketing technology ... Michigan Association of Broadcasters elects to 2015-16 board: Ed Fernandez, E.W. Scripps, chairman, Debbie Kenyon, CBS Radio, vice chairwoman/chairwoman-elect, and Peter Tanz, Midwest Communications,secretary/treasurer; at-large director Gary Baxter, WSYM-TV Lansing; and board members Nick Gnau, iHeartMedia, Sheryl Coyne, Blarney Stone Broadcasting, Chad Conklin, WSMH Flint, and Mike Renda, WJBK Detroit.
Following retirement of Scripps Networks Interactive's Brooke Johnson as president, Food Network and Cooking Channel (see 1508200021), it promotes Burton Jablin to chief operating officer and Kathleen Finch to chief programming, content & brand officer, and names Shannon O’Neill, president, Travel Channel, managing director-finance & operations, U.S. networks ... QLogic names director Christine King executive chairman and Jean Hu, who remains chief financial officer, acting CEO; Prasad Rampalli resigns as president-CEO ... Society of Broadcast Engineers elections to new positions for 2015 include Jerry Massey, Entercom, president, Jim Leifer, iHeartMedia, vice president, and Ted Hand, Cox Media Group-Charlotte, secretary, and as directors on the board Mark Fehlig, Osborn Engineering, Michael Hendrickson, American Public Media Group/Minnesota Public Radio/Classical South Florida, Jeff Keith, Wheatstone Corp., and Kevin Plumb, ESPN Technology ... iRobot adds to board Mohamad Ali, Carbonite.
Retiring is Brooke Johnson, president of Scripps Networks Interactive’s food lifestyle brands; will consult for the company through next year ... Univision adds to Leonardo Ruiz's duties, named vice president-general manager, KUTH Provo, Utah, and he remains general manager of Univision stations in Bakersfield, California ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, starting a Global Customer Service team, promotes DeDe Burns to vice president-global customer services, new position ... TA Associates, private equity firm, hires as vice presidents working on areas including technology, and some returning to the firm after graduate school, Amara Suebsaeng, Alex Melamud, John DiCola, ex-Hellman & Friedman, and Max Cancre ... Westell Technologies hires Brian Brouillette, formerly of Ixia, as senior vice president-intelligent site management and worldwide services ... LifeLock hires Marco Wirasinghe, ex-Yahoo, as vice president-consumer applications.
Wiley Rein's McBee Strategic Consulting hires Mark Duffy, ex-Qorvis MSLGroup, as manager, communications practice, expanding international practice ... ABRY Partners hires Fadi Chehadé as senior adviser-digital strategy, starting after he leaves ICANN ... Parkmobile, mobile parking payments firm, names Jon Ziglar, ex-Ceridian HCM, CEO, succeeding Cherie Fuzzell, leaving to pursue other opportunities ... Northrop Grumman promotes Robert Fleming to vice president-cyber, unattended systems and division strategy, land and self-protection systems division ... Time Warner promotes Priya Dogra to senior vice president-mergers and acquisitions, leading M&A group.
Ropes & Gray hires Heather Egan Sussman and Rohan Massey, both ex-McDermott Will, as partners, privacy & data security practice, running that practice with Doug Meal ... Akamai names Ash Kulkarni, ex-Informatica, senior vice president-general manager, Web Experience Division ... Merit Network names Joseph Sawasky, Wayne State University chief information officer, president-CEO, effective Aug. 31 ... AMC Networks hires Stephanie Yates, ex-TV One, as vice president-research and insights, WE tv ... Univision Local Media promotes Sabina Widmann-Hernandez to vice president, general manager and director-sales, Univision stations in San Diego.
Broadcasting Board of Governors names John Lansing, leaving Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, CEO and director, effective in September; André Mendes had been BBG interim CEO and will remain at BBG in leadership role in global operations; and CTAM names Anne Cowan, senior vice president-communications and marketing, acting CEO ... Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network hires Shripriya Mahesh, ex-First Look Media, as partner, on the leadership team guiding the organization and she will oversee Omidyar Network's global Consumer Internet & Mobile initiative ... GTT Communications promotes Layne Levine to chief revenue officer.
Shenandoah Telecommunications, preparing for proposed purchase of nTelos (see 1508110067), promotes to senior vice presidents William Pirtle for marketing and sales, Thomas Whitaker, operations, and Edward McKay, engineering and network planning ... Fiber network provider SiFi Networks names David Thomas, ex-BT, head-network operations ... Interface Security Systems promotes Chuck Moeling to chief marketing officer.
ZenithOptimedia hires Joe Reinstein, ex-Obama White House, as executive vice president-integrated services, Performics, new position ... In reorganization of Discovery Communications U.S. networks: Rich Ross promoted to group president, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel; Discovery Life Channel integrated into TLC team, reporting to Executive Vice President-General Manager Nancy Daniels; Jane Latman, general manager, Discovery Life Channel, named general manager, American Heroes Channel in addition to senior vice president-development, Investigation Discovery; Bob Scanlon moves to general manager, Velocity and automotive content; and Carolina Lightcap, head-content, Discovery Latin America and U.S. Hispanic Group, coordinates leadership of global family brands and kids content strategy ... SeaChange names to new positions as senior vice presidents Paul Crann, ex-BTI Systems, for product management and solutions architecture, and Mitchell Chun promoted for business development ... Lobbyist registration: Starz Entertainment, Venable, effective July 1.