Viacom promotes James Barge to chief financial officer -- replacing Thomas Dooley, who remains chief operating officer -- and Katherine Gill-Charest to controller … Changes at Liberty Global: Diederik Karsten promoted to managing director of European broadband operations, a new position, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Gene Musselman, retiring … Karl Sun, ex-Google, joins MediaForge board … Daniel Hesse, Keith Cowan and Steven Elfman, all of Sprint Nextel, resign from Clearwire board … Terry Bleakley, ex-MeaSat, becomes Intelsat regional vice president-Asia Pacific sales, effective Nov. 15 … Association of Cable Communicators executive board members: President Jim Maiella, Cablevision; First Vice President-Membership Rosa Gatti, ESPN; Second Vice President-Programs Anthony Surratt, Time Warner; Secretary Sandy Colony, Insight; Treasurer Annie Howell, Howell Public Relations; at large, Misty Skedgell, Turner Broadcasting … Erin McIlvain, ex-Dish Network, hired by Hallmark Channels as vice president of national accounts.
New at FCC: Michelle Carey, ex-NTIA, deputy chief, Media Bureau; Michael McKenzie, ex-Microsoft, Wireless Bureau deputy chief overseeing mobility, spectrum management and technologies … Kelley Dunne, ex-DigitalBridge, Verizon and Bell Labs, to become CEO of telecom nonprofit One Economy by year-end … Carol Kruse, ex-Coca-Cola Co., hired by ESPN as senior vice president of marketing.
Greg Guice ends detail to House Commerce Committee to return to FCC as assistant for House affairs to Chairman Julius Genachowski … Monica Desai, ex-FCC, named partner at Patton Boggs communications and technology group … Moves to new international production arm of TLC: Luis Silberwasser, senior vice president, international head of content; Darcy Tomlin, vice president, programming; Jon Sechrist, head of lifestyle programming; Sarah Thornton, ex-Pulse Films, head of development and production … NeoNova Network Services board member Ray Carey named CEO and chairman; Outgoing CEO John Carlson remains on board … Ming Wu, ex-China Cable Networks, hired by Arris as vice president of business development for Chinese market … Dan Minchin promoted by Insight Communications to director of business operations for Louisville district; Michael Pasquillini hired as director of advanced services engineering and reports for central operations.
Changes in office of FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker: wireline aide Christi Shewman to return to Wireline Bureau; Brad Gillen switches from media aide to wireline aide; Krista Witanowski detailed from Media Bureau to become Baker’s acting media aide; confidential assistant and staff attorney Millie Kerr to leave FCC; Kari Amstutz, ex-staffer to Rep. Charles Djou, R-Hawaii, becomes confidential assistant; Tasha Kinney, ex-Department of Agriculture, becomes staff assistant … Changes in office of Commissioner Michael Copps: senior policy advisor Jennifer Schneider leaving to become Frontier Communications vice president of legislative affairs; Margaret McCarthy, ex-office of Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., named policy advisor for broadband, wireline and universal service, beginning Oct. 12 … Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke to become CEO of NBC Universal after Comcast takes control … Mohit Kaushal, ex-head of FCC connected health team, hired by West Wireless Health Institute as executive vice president of business development and chief strategy officer … Changes at Hearst TV: John Drain, ex-Comcast Spotlight, joins Oct. 4 as senior vice president-finance; Jeana Stanley promoted to vice president-administration and IT … Christopher Wegmann adds responsibilities at Radio One in becoming vice president and general manager for its Washington market stations … Belinda Lui, ex-Microsoft Hong Kong, moves to Time Warner as head of Asia-Pacific international relations and public policy, replacing Hugh Stephens, who will leave after an interim period … George Bell takes leave from General Catalyst to become Jumptap CEO and board member; former CEO Dan Olschwang remains on board … Chris Rooke, ex-CBS, hired by SVnetwork as senior vice president of business development and strategic partnerships, new position … Peter Aquino, ex-RCN, named to TiVo board.
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker to leave after Comcast deal closes … Matthew Rose, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, joins AT&T board … Frontier Communications promotions: Rhonda Lutzke to senior vice president-general manager, Mid-State Territory; Michael Flynn to senior vice president-general manager, Illinois; Dave Davidson to senior vice president-general manager, Ohio … Wireless Telecom Group promotes Robert Censullo to acting chief financial officer, replacing Paul Genova, who remains CEO … Changes at Sierra Wireless: Dan Schieler moves to senior vice president-general manager, mobile computing; Didier Dutronc moves to senior vice president-general manager, M2M solutions unit; Philippe Guillemete promoted to chief technology officer; Andrew Berman, head of AirLink business unit, to leave company.
Leap Wireless Chief Operating Officer Al Moschner to retire by Dec. 31 … Frontier Communications promotes John Lass to president, Central Region … Cablevision Systems promotes Tom Donohue to senior vice president, technology, Local Media group … Katharine Weymouth, Washington Post Media, elected to Washington Post Co. board … Jason Fisher, ex-ABC Studios, hired by AMC as senior vice president of production … New at Current TV: Kristen Hilbert, ex-SheSpeaks, and Diana Stengel, promoted, both to vice presidents, distribution … Eugene Toombs, MiTek, added to HiBeam Internet & Voice board.
Theresa Swinehart, ex-ICANN, joins Verizon as executive director-global Internet policy … VoIP company Deltathree names consultant Arie Rand chief financial officer, to start Oct. 3 … Global Crossing names Warren Baxley, ex-InterCall, vice president, global collaboration … Edward Marecki, Delaware State Police, joins executive board of National Emergency Number Association, representing northeastern region … Arbitron promotes Thom Mocarsky to senior vice president of corporate communications and investor relations, new position … New series development vice presidents at MTV: Shannon Fitzgerald for East Coast and Colin Nash for West Coast … Vanessa Hambidge, ex-Viacom, hired by Petry Media as vice president of marketing, new position … Ryan Flynn hired by NBC Universal as Bravo vice president of production.
Josh Hurvitz, ex-American Continental Group, hired by Time Warner as executive director of public policy … Marcus Sachs, Verizon, joins National Cyber Security Alliance board … Tellabs names Dean Liming, ex-Openwave Systems, vice president of professional services.
Dave Grimaldi, ex-office of Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., joins FCC as chief of staff and media legal advisor to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, as expected (CD Sept 17 p9); acting chief of staff Angie Kronenberg stays in Clyburn office as wireline advisor … Preparing for when Ivan Seidenberg retires, Verizon names Lowell McAdam, ex-Verizon Wireless, chief operating officer, effective Oct. 1; Francis Shammo promoted to executive vice president-chief financial officer; Daniel Mead promoted to replace McAdam as Verizon Wireless CEO … Tina Pidgeon promoted by GCI to senior vice president of governmental affairs and senior counsel, a job created after Dana Tindall died last month in a plane crash with ex-Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and others aboard; Tim Fitzpatrick, Pidgeon’s husband, to leave Comcast SportsNet as vice president of public relations in mid-October to move to Anchorage with her … Mike Iandolo, ex-Alcatel Lucent, joins AirHop advisory board … Qualcomm promotes Steve Mollenkopf to executive vice president and group president … Tribune Interactive names Mike Glickenhaus executive vice president of products and solutions, taking over from John Martin, who joins research and marketing department as vice president … Discovery names Gabriel Sauerhoff, ex-Disney and ESPN, vice president-digital media distribution … Danielle Kriz, ex-Canyon Snow, joins Information Technology Industry Council as director of global cybersecurity policy.
Charles Rainey promoted to chief administrative law judge by Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission … LG Electronics CEO Nam Yong resigns, replaced by Koo Bon-joon, a member of LG’s founding family and CEO of LG International Corp.