Mintz Levin hiring additional lawyers who work on pay-TV and ISP issues from Edwards Wildman: Sharon Monahan as of counsel and Ari Moskowitz as associate ... Mintz Levin's consulting affiliate ML Strategies hires Cort Bush, ex-aide to then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., as director-government relations ... Universal Music Group hires Mike Tunnicliffe, ex-GroupM, as executive vice president-business development & partnerships, U.S., new post, effective Jan. 1 ... Goodman Networks hires Craig Holmes, ex-Sizmek, as chief financial officer, succeeding interim CFO Geoff Miller

Cablevision hires Mickey Paxton, ex-Jumpinfish, as senior vice president and executive director-creative services.

Mintz Levin hires from Edwards Wildman as members Seth Davidson and Craig Gilley, who have worked on issues affecting cable operators, ISPs and others ... John Neuffer departs Dec. 31 as senior vice president-global policy at Information Technology Industry Council to become Semiconductor Industry Association president and CEO, succeeding Brian Toohey, who a year ago announced his plans to leave to become executive vice president at DEKA Research & Development Corp., but agreed to stay until a successor was named ... Scott Ackerson retiring from 21st Century Fox as executive vice president-news, Fox Sports, effective in March, after which he continues in an advisory capacity ... Viamedia hires John Victory, ex-WTIC(AM) Hartford, as general manager, Hartford ... Insight Venture Partners, private equity and venture capital firm, hires Nick Sinai, ex-U.S. deputy chief technology officer, as venture partner ... Tremor Video hires Utpal Kalita, ex-WPP, as head-engineering.

Akin Gump hires David Turetsky, ex-FCC International Bureau, as partner, public law and policy practice, to work on areas including cybersecurity ... Wiley Rein hires Shawn Chang, ex-aide to House Commerce Committee Democrats, as of counsel, Public Policy Practice, where he will work with communications, technology and other clients ... MPAA Executive Vice President-Content Protection and Chief of Operations Michael Robinson retiring in March 2015; Dean Marks, Warner Bros. Entertainment, hired as executive vice president, deputy general counsel and chief-global content protection, effective at beginning of next month ... HSN Inc. hires Jeffrey Kuster, ex-Fruit of the Loom, as president, Cornerstone, and executive officer, HSNi ... Cox Media Group promotes Paul Briggs to vice president-general manager, WHBQ-TV Memphis.

Viacom moves Senior Vice President Tony Maxwell to that job for promotional creative and strategy in Nickelodeon Group ... Genband hires Ricardo Diaz, ex-Westell Technologies, to lead Caribbean and Latin American sales region.

BerlinRosen, public relations firm, hires Bartees Cox, ex-FCC, as senior associate, to work in its labor practice ... European Parliament Conference of Presidents approves Giovanni Buttarelli, ex-assistant European data protection supervisor, as European data protection supervisor, and Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski, ex-Polish Data Protection Authority, as assistant supervisor.

Infoblox hires Jesper Andersen, ex-Cisco, as president, CEO and board member, effective Dec. 8; succeeding Robert Thomas, who's departing company but will remain there for about four months as an executive adviser ... FCC names John Schanz, Comcast, chairman of Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council, succeeding Larissa Herda, as Comcast takes over chair position from tw telecom, which was recently acquired by Level 3.

Fletcher Heald hires telecom lawyer Laura Stefani, ex-Goldberg Godles, as of counsel ... New America Foundation hires Josh Stager, ex-legal fellow to Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as policy counsel, Open Technology Institute, working on issues including net neutrality ... Cablevision promotes Lisa Anselmo to vice president-corporate communications ... Harbinger Group CEO, Chairman and board member Philip Falcone resigning from those positions, effective Dec. 1; board member Joseph Steinberg named chairman and Keith Hladek resigning from board, and he and Falcone are expected to focus on HC2 Holdings and Harbinger Capital Partners.

Wilson Sonsini hires John Flynn, ex-McLeod Witham, as partner, litigation practice ... Among those Media Institute names to advisory council of new Global Free Speech and the Internet program are Robert McDowell, Wiley Rein, as chairman, and he becomes ex officio member of institute’s board, and as members are Stuart Brotman, Harvard University; David Gross, Wiley Rein; Larry Kilman, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers; Karim Lesina, AT&T; Jackie Ruff, Verizon; Sally Shipman Wentworth, Internet Society; and Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School ... UL promotes Carlos Correia to president-global supply chain and sustainability ... Collective, digital advertising company, hires John Vandermay, ex-BlackBerry, as chief technology officer ... BrandShop, supplier of branded e-commerce services, hires Reuben Hendell, ex-eBay Enterprise, as CEO ... EdgeWave, cybersecurity firm, hires Farley Stewart, ex-McAfee, as vice president-product management.

Arnold Kleiner retires as president and general manager of KABC-TV Los Angeles, no successor named.