Entertainment Software Association hires Stanley Pierre-Louis, ex-Viacom, as general counsel ... Sprint hires Kevin Crull, ex-Bell Media, as chief marketing officer ... Telecommunications Industry Association hires April Ward, ex-House Homeland Security Committee, as director-communications and public affairs ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers promotes Michael Martin to head Nashville membership office as vice president ... Wave promotes Steve Friedman to executive vice president-fiber design and construction, and hires Harold Zeitz, ex-Classmates.com, as president-chief operating officer ... Rockwell Automation promotes Thomas Donato to president, Europe, Middle East and Africa region ... ZigBee Alliance promotes Victor Berrios to vice president-technology ... Kopin hires Hideki Matsukawa, ex-Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., as chief display scientist, new post.
CenturyLink hires Cynthia Shelton, ex-General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, as vice president-special program sales, CenturyLink Government, leading federal sales team for the telco's intelligence and cybersecurity programs ... Qualstar promotes Daniel Jan to president; Steven Bronson steps down as president and remains CEO ... Bel Fuse promotes Dennis Ackerman to president, Bel Power Solutions, and Peter Bittner to president, Bel Connectivity Solutions ... Nintendo of America hires Doug Bowser, ex-Electronic Arts, as vice president to lead U.S. sales organization ... Nexstar promotes Stephen Freifeld to vice president-general manager, WJET-TV Erie, Pennsylvania, and associated mobile and digital operations, and he'll oversee Nexstar’s relationship with Mission Broadcasting’s affiliate WFXP Erie under a joint operating agreement ... Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Educational Foundation elects David Zagin, A+E Networks, to board.
CBS promotes Kelli Raftery to senior vice president-communications, including governmental affairs and other areas, effective June 1, succeeding Shannon Jacobs, named senior consultant, advising on carriage agreements, Washington issues and other subjects ... Allied Minds hires John Bruno, ex-VidSys, as senior vice president-chief financial officer, Federated Wireless ... Media General, opening Washington bureau, hires Jim Osman, ex-Gannett's WUSA Washington, as bureau chief ... Cox Enterprises promotes Dallas Clement to executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective July 1, succeeding Doug Franklin, retiring, effective Aug. 1.
Venable forms State Attorney General practice, led by Mark Pryor, ex-Democratic U.S. senator from Arkansas, and hires to the practice Kevin Turner, ex-aide to Republican Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, as counsel ... Jupiter Systems President Eric Wogsberg died; board member Jack Klingelhofer named chairman, while Chief Operating Officer Robert Worthington continues to manage company operations until a successor to Wogsberg is named ... Arista Networks hires Ita Brennan, ex-Infinera, as chief financial officer, a job done on interim basis by Chairman Andreas Bechtolsheim ... Resigning from Unwired Planet are Daniel Mendez and Timothy Robbins, effective July 1, as incoming CEO Boris Teksler, who begins June 1, will assume principal responsibility for intellectual property ... Specialists On Call, specialty telemedicine services provider, hires Hai Tran, ex-BioScrip, as chief financial officer.
InSite Wireless hires Richard Grimes, ex-Capital Tower Group from which InSite bought distributed antenna systems and telecom assets, as chief operating officer, DAS and Small Cells Group ... To be on eBay and PayPal boards when companies are separated: At eBay: current director Thomas Tierney will be chairman, and regular directors will be Fred Anderson, Elevation Partners; Edward Barnholt, ex-Agilent; Anthony Bates, GoPro; Bonnie Hammer, NBCUniversal; Kathleen Mitic, Sitch; Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network; Bob Swan, eBay chief financial officer; Perry Traquina, ex-Wellington Management; Devin Wenig, president and CEO-designee of eBay; at PayPal: Current eBay President and CEO John Donahoe will be chairman, and regular directors will be Jonathan Christodoro, Icahn Capital; Scott Cook, Intuit founder; David Dorman, CVS Caremark; Gail McGovern, American Red Cross; David Moffett, ex-Freddie Mac; Omidyar; Dan Schulman, PayPal president and CEO-designee; and Frank Yeary, CamberView Partners ... Maxwell Technologies adds to board Rick Bergman, Synaptics.
Center for Copyright Information hires Jim Kohlenberger, JK Strategies, as executive director, succeeding Jill Lesser, named senior adviser, and adds Stephen Balkam, Family Online Safety Institute, to advisory board ... Sony Electronics Senior Staff Engineer Luke Fay wins 2015 Bernard Lechner award for outstanding contributions to ATSC ... Lobbyist registration: Cyber Security and Defense Super PAC, Socci and Associates, effective May 1.
Verizon's Craig Silliman, executive vice president-public policy and general counsel, also named strategic policy adviser with retirement later this month of Randy Milch, executive vice president and strategic policy adviser to CEO Lowell McAdam ... Sphere Consulting hires Edward Wyatt, ex-New York Times, as senior vice president, public policy research and intelligence practice ...Windstream promotes Jeffery Howe to executive vice president-enterprise sales, succeeding John Leach, leaving to pursue other career opportunities ... RF Digital, maker of wireless modules for the IoT, hires Rod Landers, wireless inventor, as chief operating officer.
TCH Group hires Doug Wiley, ex-Wiley Rein, as partner ... Facebook hires Kevin Martin, ex-FCC chairman who had been consulting for the company for two years, as vice president-mobile and global access policy, and promotes Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan to also be vice president-U.S. public policy, leading Washington office ... Time Warner promotes Doug Shapiro to executive vice president-chief strategy officer, Turner Broadcasting System, effective in July ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hires Clara Kim, ex-National Geographic, as executive vice president-general counsel, effective June 1, succeeding Elizabeth Matthews, promoted to CEO in January ... Verizon hires Melissa Garlick, ex-Fiat Chrysler, to lead new Brand Creative organization ... Shomi streaming service hires David Asch, ex-Redbox, as senior vice president-general manager ... Link Labs, low-power, wide-area IoT network firm, hires Bryan Eagle, ex-Multi-Tech Systems, as vice president-business development and marketing.
Comcast hires Michael Cavanagh, leaving Carlyle Group, as senior executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective early this summer, as Comcast Vice Chairman and CFO Michael Angelakis still plans to start and become CEO of a company focused on investing in and operating growth-oriented companies and becomes Comcast senior adviser ... Telecommunications Industry Association hires as senior vice presidents James Reid, ex-aide to then-Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., for government affairs; and Patty Higginbotham, ex-Global Business Travel Association, as general counsel; and also hires Franklin Flint, ex-Dell, as chief technology officer ... AT&T Senior Vice President-Compliance Jeffrey Lewis adds chief accessibility officer post.
Disney promotes Rob Elmore to vice president and news director, KABC-TV Los Angeles ... Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute hires Ruben Gonzales, ex-United Cerebral Palsy, as vice president-philanthropy ... Disney promotes Leslie Ferraro to president, Disney Consumer Products ... BSA/The Software Alliance hires Jen Beltz, ex-Evan Falchuk for Governor, as vice president-global communications ... Graham Holdings names Michael Englehaupt, ex-KQED public media organization, vice president-chief technology officer, Graham Media Group, effective June 1 ... Time Warner hires Rob Bradley, ex-IDG UK, as head-digital advertising sales and data, CNN International Commercial, new position ... Lobbyist registration: American Tower, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective April 1.