Windstream hires Kevin Halpin, ex-Allied Wireless, as senior vice president-process development and improvement, and promotes Kristi Moody to senior vice president-law and corporate secretary ... Cablevision hires Cindi Buckwalter, ex-Scientific Games, as senior vice president-investor relations, and promotes Bret Richter to executive vice president-corporate finance and development ... Liberty Global moves Dana Strong to senior vice president-chief transformation officer ... MTS hires Lior Salansky, a former board member and executive of the company, as CEO ... Rejoining Electronic Frontier Foundation is Cory Doctorow, digital rights advocate, to oppose some digital rights management technologies as special consultant, Apollo 1201 Project to eradicate DRM ... National Music Publishers’ Association adds to board Jody Gerson, Universal Music Publishing Group, filling vacancy left by Zach Horowitz, ex-chairman UMPG ... Global Capacity adds to board Bill LaPerch, ex-AboveNet ... Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers names: Paul Stechly, Applied Electronics, as finance vice president, completing term of Matthew Goldman, elected in October as SMPTE executive vice president; William Miller, Miltag Media Technology, membership vice president; Douglas Sheer, D.I.S. Consulting, New York region governor; Andrew Setos, Blackstar Engineering, Hollywood region governor, succeeding Clyde Smith, stepping down in conjunction with retiring; and Paul Treleaven, ex-Avitel, standards director.
Lerman Senter promotes Stephen Coran to member and Scott Pippin to senior counsel ... Andrew Lack, ex-Bloomberg Media Group, sworn in as CEO and director, Broadcasting Board of Governors ... SES Government Solutions promotes Peter Hoene to president-CEO, effective March 2, succeeding Tip Osterthaler, retiring ... Patrick Communications hires Diana Wilkin, ex-CBS, as partner ... 21st Century Fox hires Corie Henson, ex-Electus, as executive vice president-alternative entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Co., succeeding Simon Andreae, moving into new producing role ... Rogers Communications hires Dirk Woessner, ex-Deutsche Telekom, as president of its consumer business unit, effective April 6.
AT&T promotes Thaddeus Arroyo to CEO, Iusacell; former CEO Adrian Steckel to help him with integration of the company into AT&T, which just completed the acquisition ... Morrison & Foerster names partner Andrew Serwin co-chairman, Global Privacy and Data Security Group ... RealNetworks hires Marjorie Thomas, ex-Intuit, as chief financial officer and treasurer, effective Feb. 4, succeeding Tim Wan, who relocated to the Bay Area ... Vubiquity hires Michele Edelman, ex-Warner Bros., as executive vice president-marketing and communications ... Lobbyist registrations: American Tower, Brownstein Hyatt, effective Dec. 4 ... Consumers Union, Etka Consulting, effective Jan. 1 ... Electronic Funds Transfer Association, Capitol Counsel, effective Jan. 1 ... National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Prime Policy Group, effective Jan. 1.
Charter Communications hires in Government Affairs Adam Falk, ex-Cablevision, as senior vice president, Waldo McMillan, ex-Capstone Counsel Group, as vice president, and Tamara Lipper Smith, ex-FCC Office of Strategic Policy, as vice president ... MPAA promotes Stan McCoy to president, Europe/Middle East/Africa region, succeeding Chris Marcich, promoted to president-international, new position ... Cowan DeBaets hires Doug Jacobs, ex-A&E Television Networks, as partner, New York office, working on cable-TV and digital media ... WeBoost hires Michael Mouser, ex-Navigation Solutions, as vice president-worldwide engineering.
FCC hires Will Wiquist as deputy press secretary ... ZwillGen promotes to "shareholder" Jon Frankel, who works on privacy, data security, e-commerce, intellectual property and litigation ... Keller and Heckman hires Michael Fitch, ex-wireless consultant, as senior counsel, Telecommunications Practice Group ... Baker Botts names Suzanne Hengl special counsel, intellectual property ... Univision Communications promotes Chiqui Cartagena to vice president, Political and Advocacy Group.
Kelley Drye hires Lee Terry, ex-U.S. Republican representative from Nebraska, as senior adviser, Government Relations and Public Policy practice group ... FCC hires Bruce Jacobs, ex-Pillsbury Winthrop, as chief of the Enforcement Bureau Spectrum Enforcement Division ... Federated Wireless hires Kurt Schaubach, ex-National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, as chief technology officer ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers promotes Elizabeth Matthews to CEO, succeeding John LoFrumento, who retired Dec. 31 ... Copyright Office promotes Sy Damle to deputy general counsel and Maria Strong to deputy director-policy and international affairs ... TechNet hires Matthew Mincieli, ex-Nauset Advisors, as executive director, Massachusetts and the Northeast region.
AT&T hires John Lively, ex-Time Warner Cable, as vice president-federal relations, AT&T Services ... Wilkinson Barker hires Bill Hunt, ex-Dish Network, as partner, and Patrick Halley, ex-FCC Wireline Bureau, as of counsel ... Debevoise & Plimpton hires David O’Neil, ex-Justice Department, as partner and member, White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice ... National Music Publishers’ Association promotes Senior Vice President Danielle Malito Aguirre to also serve as general counsel ... Broadcast Music Inc. hires Liz Fischer, ex-NBCUniversal, as vice president-corporate communications and marketing ... Council on Foreign Relations names Jay Rockefeller, ex-Democratic U.S. senator from West Virginia, distinguished fellow, with research focuses to include cybersecurity issues ... Satellite Industry Association board elects to 2015 Executive Committee Stacy Fuller, DirecTV, as chairwoman, Jennifer Manner, EchoStar, as vice chairwoman, and Patricia Cooper, Intelsat, treasurer ... Lobbyist registrations: Hollywood.com, Davis & Harman, effective Jan. 1 ... Uber, The Doerrer Group, effective Nov. 24.
Jeff Fleeher, ex-NBCUniversal, joins Universal Pictures Home Entertainment as worldwide chief financial officer ... Joining Mintz Levin intellectual property group from Edwards Wildman, based in Boston: Peter Corless, David Conlin, Kathleen Carr, Kongsik Kim, David Cotta, Steven Jensen, Adam Samansky and Tom Wintner ... Larry Thorpe, senior fellow in Canon U.S.A.'s Professional Engineering & Solutions Division, wins Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award from Television Academy for "contributions" that have "significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.”
Heather O’Connor departs Jan. 16 as RealD senior vice president-finance and chief accounting officer to accept a post with another company ... Joe Doering, ex-Swisslog Holding and Siemens, moves to communications technology company Kathrein, where he will be board member in charge of sales and marketing ... Lobbyist Registration: Rural Broadband Co., on behalf of itself, effective Jan. 14.
Joanne Maguire, ex-Lockheed Martin Space Systems, and Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, YAS Capital Partners, join Visteon board ... Cox Enterprises names Duncan O'Brien, ex-TIAA-CREF, senior vice president-general manager, corporate strategy and investments ... Former Sprint executive John Harrison joins PCIA-The Wireless Infrastructure Association as senior adviser ... Frontier Communications promotes Stephen LeVan to senior vice president-video content and delivery ... IHeartMedia promotes Jeff Tyler to Minneapolis market president ... Lobbyist Registration: NCTA, Hannegan Landau Poersch Advocacy, effective Jan. 1.