House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., announces staffers for new Congress: Jeff Carroll, staff director, formerly chief of staff in Pallone's personal office; Tiffany Guarascio, deputy staff director, formerly legislative director in Pallone's personal office; Tim Robinson, chief counsel, formerly legislative director for Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.; Ashley Jones, outreach director, formerly chief of staff to Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga. ... Senate Judiciary Privacy Subcommittee Chairman Al Franken, D-Minn., hires as counsel Leslie Hylton, ex-telecom staffer to former Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. ... Arent Fox adds Alex Manning, ex-staff director, House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, to its Government Relations practice as senior government relations director in Washington office ... Steptoe & Johnson promotes to of counsel Chris Bjornson, practicing before the FCC and other government agencies and in transactional matters ... Sinclair Broadcast names Howard Friedman, Lanx Management, to its board ... CTAM board elections: Mark Greatrex, Cox Communications, to chair; Jamia Bigalow,Fox Networks, vice chair; Jonathan Hargis, Charter, secretary; David Preschlack, Disney & ESPN Media Networks, treasurer ... Nevada Broadcasters Association names Mary Beth Sewald, ex-KRNV Reno, president, succeeding Bob Fisher, who retires ... Smartphone accessories manufacturer Peri names Mohammad Tabatabai, ex-Broadcom, CEO ... New members of CompTIA's Telecom Advisory Council: Co-chairs Jeff Ponts, Datatel Solutions, and Bryan Schroder, Juvo Technologies; Vice Chair Rob Butler, Crossvergence; Laura Bernstein, CRA Telecom; Brandon Burchard, Telegration; Meredith Caram, AT&T; Dave Dyson, Eclipse Telecom; Keith Fotta, Continuum; Tim Kennedy, Carousel Industries; Ian Kieninger, Avant Communications; Michael Paynter, Tier3 Technologies; Craig Schlagbaum, Comcast Business; Charles Stafford, Matrix Integration; Marko Spremo, Telapprise; Richard Williams, Verizon; Guy Yasika, Alteva.
Among those promoted to Dickstein Shapiro partners are Fiona Chaney, whose practices include entertainment, which she leads, Ann-Marie Luciano, in State Attorneys General Practice, and Charles Monterio, Intellectual Property Practice ... Tennessee Supreme Court names Deborah Taylor Tate, ex-FCC commissioner, director of the Administrative Office of the Courts ... Wiley Rein names Karl Nebbia, ex-NTIA Office of Spectrum Management, independent consultant to its Communications Practice ... Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, hires Karen Lightfoot, ex-aide to then-House Commerce Committee ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., as communications director and policy advisor ... ESPN names Aaron LaBerge executive vice president-chief technology officer, succeeding Chuck Pagano, who recently retired ... Avnet Technology Solutions promotes Patrick Zammit to global president ... CenturyLink promotes Tim Meehan to senior vice president-general manager, CenturyLink Government ... Hibernia Networks names Omar Altaji, ex-AT&T and Lucent, chief commercial officer ... ITN Networks, multiplatform video ad sales company, hires Stephen Poulin, ex-MediaVest Worldwide, as executive vice president-platform development.
Beijing-based online game developer and operator Perfect World promotes Yunfan Zhang to chief operating officer.
Newly appointed members of FCC Task Force on Optimal Public Safety Answering Point Architecture: Bernard Aboba, Microsoft; Bradley Blanken, Competitive Carriers Association; Mary Boyd, Intrado; Tom Breen, AT&T; Robert Brown, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council; Alicia Burns, Frontier Communications; Mario DeRango, Motorola; Tracy Felty, Saline County, Illinois; Laurie Flaherty, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Mark Fletcher, Avaya; James Goerke, Texas 911 Alliance; Jeanna Green, Sprint; Larry Hatch, Oregon APCO/NENA; Joseph Heaps, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice; David Holl, National Association of State 911 Administrators (Pennsylvania); Michael Kennedy, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Rebecca Ladew, Speech Communications Assistance by Telephone; Chris Littlewood, Center for Public Safety Innovation; Anthony Montani, Verizon; Mehrdad Negahban, beamSmart; Sean Petty, Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT); Richard Ray, National Association for the Deaf; Steve Souder, Department of Public Safety Communications, Fairfax County, Virginia; Brian Tagaban, Navajo Nation; Jeff Wittek, Airbus Defense and Space (Cassidian Communications) ... Audio Precision President Dave Schmoldt adds CEO responsibilities, replacing Bruce Hofer, who will remain chairman and principal hardware engineer ... Internet marketing agency Netmark.com promotes Chief Operating Officer John Broadbent to CEO, replacing Josh Dalton, who will stay on with the company for several months in “an administrative role."
Commissioner Jeffrey Goltz to retire from Washington's Utilities and Transportation Commission … China Digital TV Holding promotes Yue Qian to acting chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1.
Liberty Interactive and Liberty Media extended the contract of President-CEO Gregory Maffei through 2019.
Aviat Networks Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Ned Hayes retiring; Michael Shahbazian, ex-PDF Solutions and Saba Software, named interim CFO ... Worldnow, supplier of digital content management and monetization platforms, promotes Craig Smith to president-chief operating officer.
Senate Republican Conference and incoming Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., name Brendon Plack staff director of conference, and he will continue to oversee operations in Thune’s personal office; Ann Marie Hauser, ex-Patomak Global Partners, hired as deputy staff director of the conference; AshLee Strong promoted to senior communications director; Frederick Hill, ex-aide to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., named communications director for the committee ... Comtech Telecommunications hires Stanton Sloane, ex-Decision Sciences International, as CEO and president, effective by Feb. 1, succeeding Fred Kornberg, who becomes executive chairman ... Media General hires John McCarus, ex-DigitasLBi, as chief strategy officer, digital media business, new post.
Hearst Corp. moves Hank Price, president and general manager, WXII-TV, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to that job at WVTM-TV Birmingham, Alabama, and hires Tim Morrissey, ex-Gannett and formerly of Hearst, as president and general manager of WJCL Savannah, Georgia, as part of completing purchase of those stations ... iHeartMedia names Rich Davis vice president-programming, Seattle ... Technology Crossover Ventures promotes Ted Coons and Daniel O’Keefe to general partners and Sean Giese to principal ... Comcast moves Senior Vice President Jeff Mayzurk to that job for operations and technology at NBCUniversal’s Hispanic Enterprises and Content.
Comporium hires Russell Cook, ex-4e Ventures, as managing director, Comporium Ventures ... American Tower adds to board Craig Macnab, National Retail Properties ... Also new to board of Fiber-to-the-Home Council is Kevin Bourg, Corning, completing remaining two years of term held by Dave Kiel, Corning.