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.
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.