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.
Oceus Networks promotes Jeff Harman to chief operating officer and Kevin Stiles to chief technology officer ... Akamai hires Erica Chapman, ex-Osram, as vice president-corporate services, effective Jan. 5 ... Fiber-to-the-Home Council elects to board Robert Murrie, Enhanced Telecommunications ... Extreme Networks names to board Raj Khanna, ex-Qualcomm ... Deezer hires Hans-Holger Albrecht, ex-Millicom, as CEO, effective Feb. 1.
FTC hires Marina Lao, professor, Seton Hall University School of Law, as director-Office of Policy Planning, effective in February, succeeding Andrew Gavil, returning to Howard University School of Law ... Redgrave hires Monica McCarroll, ex-Williams Mullen, as of counsel at firm that focuses on law and technology ... Senate approves nominations of Karen Kornbluh to be member, Broadcasting Board of Governors, for term expiring Aug. 13, 2016, and Colette Honorable, NARUC past president, as member, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ... NATPE promotes Jordan Ryder to vice president-domestic and international programming, new position ... Comcast hires Angela Vega, ex-Pacific Gas & Electric, as director-government affairs, Central Valley of California, where she works on local government affairs and policy issues in Fresno, Madera, Kings, Tulare and Santa Barbara counties ... Lobbyist registration: Minority Cellular Partners Coalition, Podesta Group, effective Oct. 29.
Wiley Rein promotes Scott Weaver to co-chairman, Public Policy Practice, of which he leads day-to-day operations ... Antel Communications, started last year to provide mobile devices, hires Saeed Saatchi, ex-Samsung Telecommunications, as chief operating officer, new position ... PCTel promotes Shelley Bacastow to vice president-general counsel, succeeding Varda Goldman, effective Jan. 1; Goldman to be vice president-legal transition officer in 2015 and retire at the end of next year ... Minnesota Public Utilities Commission promotes Dan Wolf to executive secretary, succeeding Burl Haar, retiring ... Lobbyist registrations: NerdWallet, online finance firm, Monument Policy Group, effective Nov. 1 ... Viiad Systems, healthcare technology firm, Brownstein Hyatt, effective Nov. 1.
MRV Communications promotes Mark Bonney to president and CEO, succeeding David Stehlin, who resigned as an officer and director to pursue other interests, and Stephen Krulik to chief financial officer, replacing Bonney ... Perk.com, mobile rewards program, hires Ted Hastings, industry executive, as president ... QVC promotes Mathias Bork to CEO, QVC Germany, succeeding Steve Hofmann, CEO of QVC Europe, who has also been interim CEO of QVC Germany for about a year ... Deezer, digital music streaming company, hires Beth Murphy, ex-Zinio and former Yahoo, as chief marketing officer ... Nexstar hires Joseph McNamara, formerly of KHON-TV Honolulu, as vice president-general manager, Virginia TV stations WFXR Roanoke and WWCW Lynchburg and their digital operations ... Ford board adds former FCC Chairman William Kennard, Velocitas Partners, effective Jan. 1, as Homer Neal departs as director.
Wireless lawyer Mitchell Lazarus retiring as partner at Fletcher Heald at end of the year ... Windstream promotes: Tony Thomas to president and CEO and names him a director, succeeding Jeff Gardner, who resigned and will remain a senior adviser to the CEO and on the board through Feb. 1; Bob Gunderman to permanent chief financial officer; David Works to president, enterprise; David Redmond, who remains president of consumer and adds small and medium business; and Mike Shippey to president, carrier.
Returning to AT&T is Betsy Brady, ex-Microsoft, as senior policy advisor ... Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., incoming Commerce Committee ranking member, tentatively names staff for committee next Congress: Kim Lipsky, staff director for the ranking member; Chris Day, deputy staff director; and Clint Odom, general counsel and policy coordinator ... Intelsat promotes Stephen Spengler to deputy CEO, and, effective April 1, to CEO, when Chairman and CEO David McGlade becomes executive chairman ... David Flowers resigns from Sirius XM board because he’s retiring Dec. 31 as Liberty Media managing director-alternative investments, replaced on Sirius XM board by Mark Carleton, Liberty Media senior vice president ... Otelco CEO and director Michael Weaver retiring Dec. 31, date when promotion is effective of President Robert Souza to also be CEO and a board member; Weaver to consult with the company for a year.
Global Capacity hires Vic Pierni, ex-Verivo Software, as chief financial officer ... At WE tv, AMC Networks promotes Suzanne Gladstone Murch to vice president-original programming, new position, and hires as vice presidents-development Angela Molloy and David Stefanou ... National Hispanic Media Coalition hires Elizabeth Ruiz, ex-staff attorney to judges on Virginia's Chesapeake Circuit Court, as policy counsel ... Wiley Rein promotions include: to partners Matthew Dowd, in the Intellectual Property, Appellate, and Litigation practices; Stephen Obermeier, Litigation, Appellate, White Collar Defense & Government Investigations, Government Contracts, and Communications practices; and Brett Shumate, Appellate, Litigation, and Communications practices; and to of counsel: Rachel Hunnicutt, Intellectual Property and Food & Drug Law practices; and Joan Stewart, Communications Practice ... Charter Communications hires Jodi Robinson, ex-Starz Entertainment, as senior vice president-user experience design and development.
Satellite Industry Association hires Tom Stroup, ex-Shared Spectrum Co., as president ... USTelecom hires Diane Griffin Holland, ex-FCC, to law and policy team as vice president ... Verizon promotes Craig Silliman to executive vice president-public policy and general counsel, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Randal Milch, named strategic policy adviser to CEO Lowell McAdam, overseeing strategic policy initiatives ... Icontrol Networks hires Ken Hahn, ex-QuinStreet, as chief financial officer, and Steve Gribbon, ex-ADT, as senior vice president-worldwide sales ... SpotXchange hires Randy Cooke, ex-NCC Media, as vice president-programmatic TV ... Gigamon hires Scott Sullivan, ex-VSS Monitoring, as vice president-worldwide channel sales ... YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki appointed to Salesforce board ... Lobbyist registrations: iApp Creative, digital payment firm, Tauzin Consultants, effective March 24 ... Gada Secure Pay technology company, TG&C Group, effective Dec. 1.
Viacom promotes David Katz to senior vice president-content relations, Nickelodeon Group ... Hargrove, trade show, event and exhibit firm, hires Dan Cole, ex-CES, as senior vice president-trade shows and exhibits ... Quantcast hires Peter Kuipers, leaving The Weather Co., as chief financial officer, and Peter Sirota, ex-Amazon Elastic MapReduce, as senior vice president-engineering ... Warburg Pincus names Andrew Sukawaty, Inmarsat, as executive-in-residence, to work on investments in media, tech and telecom, effective in January ... PCTel elects to board Jay Sinder, telecom executive ... Elected to 2014-15 terms at Fibre Channel Industry Association are: Mark Jones, Emulex, chairman and president; Greg McSorley, Amphenol, treasurer; Jay Neer, Molex, secretary; and at-large members: Craig Carlson, QLogic; Kevin Ehringer, Data Center Systems; Saito Kinya, Fujitsu Japan; J Metz, Cisco; Steven Wilson, Brocade; and as marketing chairman Rupin Mohan, Hewlett-Packard.