Julie Brill, ex-North Carolina Department of Justice, sworn in as FTC commissioner … Frank Lloyd retired last Wednesday as partner at Mintz Levin, where he worked on cable and other issues … Miranda Curtis resigns as president of Liberty Global Japan after it sold its stake in Jupiter Telecommunications; she’s nominated to board of Liberty Global … Kevin Bennett promoted by Discovery Channel to senior vice president of programming … James DeLong, Convergence Law Institute, joins Digital Society as visiting fellow working on intellectual property and regulatory policy …
Harry Hawks retiring from Hearst Television in May as chief financial officer …
Former Los Angeles attorney Edith Ramirez sworn in as an FTC commissioner …
VoIP company Aptela promotes Douglas Strahan to president and CEO, succeeding Larry Barker, named chairman … Eileen Nelson, ex-3Com, hired by Openwave as senior vice president of human resources …
Digital advertising firm Rubicon Project names Ben Trenda, ex-AOL, vice president-U.S. demand, and Eric Matza, ex-Experian, director of product marketing …
Thomas Fitzpatrick, ex-Centennial Communications, becomes Iridium chief financial officer; Eric Morrison moves to senior vice president, Iridium NEXT financing and planning …
FairPoint Communications Chief Financial Officer Alfred Giammarino resigned Wednesday, citing personal reasons; Lisa Hood, senior vice president and controller, named interim CFO … Thomas Murray, ex-Vermont Telecom Authority, rejoins TDS Telecom as manager, state government affairs … Tennessee Regulatory Authority director Eddie Roberson to head the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Subcommittee on Education and Research.
Fox Networks Group moves David Lyle to President of Fox Look, newly formed to license and produce unscripted shows from Fox Broadcasting and Fox Cable Networks; Ravi Ahuja promoted by networks group to executive vice president of business operations and development … Don Paige, ex-Toly Digital Networks, hired by Entone as director of sales for North America southeastern region … Lee Levine of Levine Sullivan and Cliff Sloan of Skadden Arps, join Media Institute’s First Amendment advisory council …
Insight Communications promotes Diego Jaramillo to director of operational reporting, hires Ben Halliwell as director of strategic marketing … Jeffrey Belk, ICT168 Capital, elected to board of wireless technology company InterDigital …
Todd Brecher, ex-Time Warner Cable, named Cablevision senior vice president, associate general counsel of business affairs …