Corporation for Public Broadcasting hires Joyce MacDonald, ex-National Public Media, as vice president-journalism ... Comcast hires Javier Garcia, ex-Yahoo, as vice president and general manager-multicultural services, Comcast Cable ... Electronic Frontier Foundation promotes Cindy Cohn to executive director, effective in April, succeeding Shari Steele, stepping down; Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry promoted to legal director, succeeding Cohn, and will continue to lead IP team; Kurt Opsahl promoted to general counsel, also succeeding Cohn, and also named deputy executive director, new position; David Greene promoted to civil liberties director, new position ... Safe-T Data, cloud security provider, hires Derek Schwartz, ex-Cyclone Commerce, as CEO ... Jeffrey Cammerrer departs as chief financial officer of Appliance Recycling Centers of America to work for a private equity firm in the healthcare industry, effective Nov. 21, his duties to be assumed on an interim basis by CEO Mark Eisenschenk ... Meruelo Media hires Rick Rodriguez, ex-Discovery Networks, as general manager, Meruelo Television ... Lobbyist registration: Neustar, Gephardt Group Government Affairs, effective Oct. 27.
SMS/800 hires Joel Bernstein, ex-Temple Strategies, as vice president-regulatory and public policy ... Fletcher Heald hires Bob Winteringham, ex-Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as of counsel ... IHeartMedia promotes Kelly Parker to vice president-sales, Dallas ... Nokia Networks promotes Ashish Chowdhary to lead customer operations, effective Jan. 1, and until then he will continue to lead Asia, Middle East and Africa; René Svendsen-Tune, executive vice president, Europe and Latin America, to leave the company at the end of Q1 ... iHeartMedia hires Adam Denenberg, ex-Huffington Post, as chief technology officer, iHeartRadio Network, effective Nov. 17 ... Time Warner promotes Dan Riess to executive vice president-integrated marketing and branded content, Turner Broadcasting’s Ad Sales division.
Windstream promotes Sarah Day to senior vice president-small and medium-sized business sales and marketing ... Viacom promotes Cathy Galeota to senior vice president-preschool current series, Nickelodeon Group ... The American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers and Interactive Advertising Bureau name Linda Woolley, ex-Direct Marketing Association, as president and CEO, TAG, joint marketing-media industry program to fight digital ad fraud, piracies and other problems ... Kabam hires Nick Earl, ex-Electronic Arts, as president, Kabam Global Studios ... Pica8 hires Niraj Jain, ex-Vocera Communications, as vice president-business development ... Madison Square Garden Co. hires Scott Henry, ex-Nielsen Audio, as executive vice president and chief technology officer ... A10 Networks hires Gunter Reiss, ex-Ericsson, as vice president-strategic alliances ... IEEE names Greg Shannon, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, chairman, IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative ... Lobbyist registrations: American Tower Corp., on behalf of itself, effective Oct. 1 ... CALinnovates, WilmerHale, effective Oct. 1 ... Apple, WilmerHale, effective Oct. 15.
National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative hires Greg Santoro, ex-NII Holdings, as chief marketing and strategy officer, new position ... Hiroki Totoki, currently Sony senior vice president-corporate planning, finance and new business creation, becomes CEO, Sony Mobile Communications, effective Nov. 16, replacing Kunimasa Suzuki, who will shift that same date to executive vice president, Sony Entertainment ... Sprint names Junichi Miyakawa, from majority owner SoftBank Group, as technical chief operating officer, new post, but he also remains executive vice president and on the board of SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank BB and SoftBank Telecom ... Immersion Corp. hires Mahesh Sundaram, ex-Dolby Labs, as vice president-worldwide OEM sales.
EWTN Global Catholic Network hires Patti Connolly, ex-AutoTrader.com, as vice president-human resources ... Newly elected to Radio Advertising Bureau board: Drew Horowitz, Hubbard Radio; Bill McElveen, Alpha Media; Pat Walsh, Emmis Communications; and Steve Wexler, Journal Broadcast Group.
Discovery Communications hires Rich Ross, ex-Shine America, as president, Discovery, effective in January ... Rogers hires Deepak Khandelwal, ex-Google, as chief customer officer, effective Nov. 10; Mike Adams, interim chief customer officer, will lead some "key files" until he retires and moves back to the U.S. in June ... Intertrust Technologies hires Robert Tarjan, former chief scientist there who is a computer science professor at Princeton University, as chief scientist, to lead research on technical problems in trust and security on the Internet.
FCC hires Olga Madruga-Forti, ex-Arsat Telecomm, as chief, Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division of the International Bureau, where she has previously worked ... Greenberg Traurig hires California State Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, as chairman, California Government Law & Policy Practice, effective Dec. 1 after his final term expires ... Hogan Lovells hires Aaron Cutler, former aide to then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., as partner, Legislative group; his experience includes telecom and technology ... Kirton McConkie hires Drew Clark, Broadband Breakfast Club founder, as of counsel, Telecommunications Practice Group, which advises state and local governments in deploying broadband infrastructure.
FCC Media Bureau promotes Holly Saurer to associate chief, names Susan Singer, ex-Wireless Bureau, chief economist ... Covington & Burling hires Andrea Zulli, ex-Norton Rose, to EU competition group as of counsel ... Mimik technology, provider of personalized multi-screen experience for digital content, hires Daniel Veniez, expert in economics and public policy, as executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Comcast hires Mitch Rose, ex-consultant to company and others in industry at Mitch Rose Strategic Consulting, as senior vice president-government affairs, NBCUniversal ... Disney promotes Marcy Lefkovitz to vice president-technology and workflow strategy, ABC broadcast operations and engineering ... American Intellectual Property Law Association hiresLisa Jorgenson, ex-STMicroelectronics, as executive director, effective Nov. 17.
NAB promotes Curtis LeGeyt to senior vice president-public policy, new position ... OpenX Technologies hires include Deborah Roth, ex-Fab, as chief communications officer, new position, and Scott Braley, ex-Facebook’s Atlas, as senior vice president-demand ... NG9-1-1 Institute elects to board for 2014-16 terms: Angel Arocho, Comcast, representing IP-enabled provider position; Mary Boyd, Intrado, and Jim Shepard, 911 Datamaster, members at-large; Alicia Burns, Frontier Communications, large telecom carrier position; and Nneka Ezenwa, Verizon, wireless provider position.