FBI promotes Shawn Henry
Changes at FCC International Bureau: Thomas Sullivan promoted to associate chief/chief of staff, Linda Haller Sloan returns from White House Office of Science & Technology Policy to become associate bureau chief; Jennifer Gilsenan and David Strickland promoted to assistant chiefs; Walt Strack, ex-Wireless Bureau, becomes assistant chief, economics; Robert Somers promoted to outreach coordinator; Irene Wu promoted to acting chief data officer; Richard Lerner, ex-Office of Managing Director, becomes deputy chief, Strategic Analysis & Negotiations Division; Julie Saulnier, ex-Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, named deputy chief, Strategic Analysis & Negotiations Division; Robert Tanner promoted to assistant chief, Strategic Analysis & Negotiations Division; Paul Blais, ex-DISA, named branch chief, Systems Analysis Branch, Satellite Division … MTN Satellite Communications names Joseph Wright, ex-Intelsat, chairman … Richard Green, ex-CableLabs, joins Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers board … Discovery names Meg Lowe, ex-MTV, senior vice president, domestic distribution, effective Sept. 30 … Jennifer Garrett promoted by Cox Communications to vice president of sales … John Levy, Board Advisory, joins Brightpoint board, replacing James Reid-Anderson, who became CEO of Six Flags Entertainment.
FCC names Peter Karanjia, ex-New York state attorney general’s office, deputy general counsel, and Troy Tanner, ex-Bingham McCutchen, deputy International Bureau chief … John Killian to retire around year’s end as Verizon chief financial officer … Satellite Industry Association names Sam Black, ex-Stimson Center, director of policy … Ed Adler, ex-Time Warner, joins MediaLink as senior partner to represent media, entertainment and high-tech clients … Coby Cooper promoted by Nexstar to vice president and general manager of Illinois’ WCIA Champaign and WCFN Springfield.
Jason Llorenz, ex-National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, becomes executive director, Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership … EuNetworks names James Thomas, ex-TalkTalk Telecom Group, chief financial officer … Discovery promotions: Jocelyn Egan to senior vice president, Discovery Solutions; Maria Kennedy to senior vice president-advertising sales, direct response … Cablevision Systems names Valerie Green, ex-Fuse, senior vice president, marketing, Local Media group, effective Sept. 27 … Deon Levingston, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, joins NAB radio board … Pierre Bouvard leaving Arbitron Sept. 30 as executive vice president of cross-platform services … Mark Marshall promoted to Turner Sports Ad Sales senior vice president and national sales manager … Media General hires Mark Dvornik as president and general manager of WFLA-TV Tampa, Fla., and president of Riverbank Studios … New at Sony, Discovery Communications and Imax 3D joint venture: Julia Rao, ex-Discovery, to chief financial officer, and Mark Ringwald, ex-AmericanLife TV, to scheduling and acquisitions director … Michael Greenspan promoted to senior vice president, digital advertising operations at MTV Networks, which hires Rick Bruner, ex-DoubleClick, as vice president, digital ad sales research and Stuart Schneiderman, ex-Online Publishers Association, to digital research senior director … Donna Thomas promoted by Ascent Media Group to senior vice president of sales for cable, telco and new media … Blair Westlake, Microsoft, becomes treasurer, International Academy of TV Arts & Sciences.
Daniel O'Connell, ex-Verizon, becomes Fiber-to-the-Home Council president Oct. 1 …
John Ryan promoted by Level 3 to chief legal officer, succeeding Thomas Stortz, retiring at year-end … Verizon Wireless names Andrew Davies, ex-Vodafone, chief financial officer … Cynthia Hook, ex-Dell, becomes Comcast senior vice president-general auditor … Rhod Williams, ex-EchoStar Technologies, moves to EchoStar Europe as general manager, European operations … Jennifer Holtz, formerly of e-Copernicus and CTIA, becomes Booz Allen Hamilton associate, broadband policy … Wavestream names John Gray, ex-Advantech, vice president-sales, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia … Lynn Tinsley, ex-Weather Channel, hired by Hallmark Channel as ad sales director for Southeast.
Kyle Dixon, ex-Wilkinson Barker, hired by Time Warner as vice president of public policy …
Mark Rasch, ex-Justice Department, named director of cybersecurity and privacy consulting for CSC’s North American Public Sector business …
Changes at AT&T: Senior Vice President-Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer Dorothy Attwood moves to Disney; Robert Quinn adds title of chief privacy officer; Len Cali will add responsibility for global public policy … Mark Bohannon, ex-Software & Information Industry Association, hired by Red Hat as vice president of corporate affairs and global public policy, starting Oct. 1 … Seth Cooper, ex-American Legislative Exchange Council, becomes research fellow at Free State Foundation … CBS Interactive’s GameSpot names John Davison, ex-IDG GamePro, vice president-programming, games and Metacritic … General Cable new independent directors, expanding board to seven: Chip McClure, ArvinMeritor, and Patrick Prevost, Cabot Corp., who also will be on audit, compensation and corporate governance committees … Richard Kelley promoted by NBC Universal to president and general manager of KNSD San Diego … Daniel Danker, ex-Microsoft, joins BBC Future Media & Technology on Sept. 20 as general manager, programs and on-demand … Westwood One Network Radio Division President Gary Schonfeld leaving to return to AdLarge Media; Westwood One President Rod Sherwood to oversee Network Radio.
New in Frontier Communications’ Washington office: Michael Saperstein, ex-PCIA, to manage federal regulatory activities; Allison Ellis, ex-Ericsson, becomes associate general counsel, compliance and regulatory.