Womble Carlyle hires Doug Bonner, ex-Drinker Biddle, as partner, telecom, cable & broadcast team ... Imax hires Jason Brenek, ex-Disney, as president of its new home entertainment division ... Littelfuse, circuit-protection product supplier, hires Matthew Cole, ex-Ametek, as senior vice president-general manager, Industrial Business Unit, new position ... Retiring from Cox Media Group is Orlando TV Vice President-General Manager Shawn Bartelt, effective June 19; promoted to succeed her is Paul Curran ... Wi-SUN Alliance hires Bob Heile, ex-ZigBee Alliance, as director-standards.
MPAA extends contract of Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd into 2018 ... Brady Corp. hires Russell Shaller, ex-Teledyne, as senior vice president and president, identification solutions, effective June 22 ... Interlink Electronics, human-machine interface firm, hires Tracy Kern, ex-Vitesse Semiconductor, as chief financial officer ... Sports Fans Coalition names Ryan Rudominer, SackNFLTaxBreaks.org, chairman, Mid-Atlantic region.
Named to incoming Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins' new leadership team: Pankaj Patel, executive vice president-chief development officer; Kelly Kramer, executive vice president-chief financial officer; ex-chief information technology officer Rebecca Jacoby, senior vice president-operations; Guillermo Diaz promoted to CIO; Francine Katsoudas, senior vice president-chief people officer; ex-head of mergers and acquisitions strategy; Hilton Romanski, senior vice president-chief technology and strategy officer; Karen Walker, senior vice president-chief marketing officer; Chris Dedicoat, senior vice president-worldwide sales; Joe Cozzolino, senior vice president-services; Mark Chandler, senior vice president-general counsel; Ruba Borno, ex-Boston Consulting Group, vice president-growth initiatives and chief of staff; Chief Technology and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior and Senior Vice President-Services Edzard Overbeek, will move to strategic adviser roles, effective immediately, and stay through the transition; Executive Vice President-Industry Solutions and Chief Globalisation Office Wim Elfrink to retire, effective July 25.
Madeleine Findley, ex-FCC Office of General Counsel, moves to Wireline Bureau as a deputy bureau chief ... Wilkinson Barker said media transaction expert Doc Bodensteiner, ex-Wiley Rein, joined the firm as a partner effective immediately ... Turner Broadcasting promotes Sandy Padula to senior vice president-research for TBS and TNT ... Hearst TV promotes Dave Kaylor to director-veteran recruiting ... L-3 Communications promotes Mark Von Schwarz to senior vice president and president of the company’s Aerospace Systems business segment ... Liberty Global promoted Betzalel Sergio Kenigsztein to president-chief operating officer, Liberty Global’s Latin American and Caribbean Operations, effective July 1 ... Tribune Broadcasting names Michael Page, ex-Gannett Digital Ventures, vice president-digital local sales ... New members of Digital Analytics Association board: Colin Coleman, Equifax; Adam Greco, Web Analytics Demystified; Deanna Pagano, MetLife; and Amy Sample, Public Broadcasting Service. New officers are: Chair, Jim Sterne,Target Marketing; President, Casey Carey, Google; Vice President, Eric Feinberg, ForeSee by Answers; Vice President-Marketing, Steve Petitpas, Microsoft; Treasurer, Ned Kumar, FedEx; Secretary, Robin Chiang, First Data Corp. ... Lobbyist registration: Music Innovation Consumers (MIC) Coalition, counting the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Google, NAB and Pandora among members, TwinLogic Strategies, effective April 29.
SES promotes Patrick Biewer to CEO, LuxGovSat S.A. ... Orange Group promotes Paul Molinier to CEO of Viaccess-Orca, effective June 15, replacing François Moreau de Saint Martin, moving to Orange Business Services as vice president-industry and IT large accounts ... Comcast names Chris Satchell, ex-Nike, executive vice president-chief product officer, Comcast Cable ... New on Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions board: Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Systems, as treasurer, and Chris Drake, iconectiv, as chairman of the ATIS Technology and Operations Council.
Time Warner Cable Chief Financial Officer Arthur Minson has left the company, will remain as an adviser until the Charter transaction closes; promoted to acting co-CFOs are William Osbourn, senior vice president-controller and chief accounting officer, and Matthew Siegel, senior vice president-treasurer ... James Rasulo to resign as CFO of Walt Disney Company effective June 30, but will remain in an advisory capacity to assist in the transition to new CFO, to be named later ... Comcast Spotlight names Justin Evans, ex-Collective Inc., to newly created position of vice president-principal data and research strategist ... Sling TV names Ben Weinberger, ex-Digitalsmiths, senior vice president-chief product officer.
Rivada Networks hires Peter Cramton, University of Maryland, as chief economist ... Lobbyist registration: National Music Publishers Association, Bridge Street Group, effective April 17.
Information Technology Industry Council hires Jennifer McCloskey, ex-aide to Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., as director-government affairs ... Time Warner promotes Scott Miller to senior vice president-associate general counsel-legal and business affairs, Turner Broadcasting System's Turner Content Distribution ... Comcast promotes Anand Kini to chief financial officer, NBCUniversal; had been interim CFO ... Neustar hires Michael Krieger, ex-Department of Defense, to direct new Local Number Portability Administrator Transition Project Management Office, and he'll work with also past DOD officials Priscilla Guthrie and Roger Loeb; all are full-time consultants to the company.
Commerce Department hires Alan Davidson, leaving New America Foundation, as digital economy director and senior adviser to Secretary Penny Pritzker; NAF promotes Kevin Bankston to succeed Davidson as director of the foundation's Open Technology Institute ... Open Interconnect Consortium hires Mike Richmond, Intel, as executive director ... Avnet names Dee Dee Lear senior vice president-emerging channels for the Americas, Avnet Technology Solutions ... Cybergy Holdings hires Terry DiVittorio, ex-Knowledge Consulting Group, as vice president-cyber operations, Cybergy Labs ... Xoom, digital money transfer provider, adds to board Chris Shimojima, Provide Commerce ... Lobbyist registrations: 21st Century Fox, Arnall Golden, effective May 22 ... Cloudera Government Solutions, Twenty-First Century Group, effective April 13.
PowerPhone, emergency and 911 communications firm, moves Jerry Turk to president ... Capitol Music Group promotes Michelle Jubelirer to chief operating officer ... Mellanox promotes to vice presidents Mehdi Asghari for silicon photonics, Eyal Babish for hardware, Ronnen Lovinger for operations and corporate quality, Henning Lysdal for active interconnect engineering, and Alon Webman for silicon engineering ... Ruckus Wireless Chief Technology Officer Bill Kish leaving company and board to pursue new interests in technology ... International Technology Law Association elects Jenna Karadbil, Law Offices of Jenna Karadbil, president; Susan Barty, CMS Cameron McKenna, vice president; Robert Weiss, Neal Gerber, treasurer; Christian Frank, Taylor Wessing, secretary; Charles Morgan, McCarthy Tetrault, assistant secretary; and as regular board members Kevin Erdman, Reichel IP; Robert Milligan, Seyfarth & Shaw; Matthew Mousley, Duane Morris; Charles Mudd, Mudd Law Offices; Rory Radding, Locke Lord; and Eugene Weitz, SAI Global ... Open Data Center Alliance adds to board Samson David, Infosys, Edward Goldman, Intel, and Wanjing Li, China Unicom Group.