Communications Personals
Disney's John Skipper resigns as president, ESPN, and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks; George Bodenheimer, ex-ESPN president and former executive chairman, named acting chairman for 90 days; Skipper says he "struggled for many years with a substance addiction," the most important thing now "is to take care of my problem" and he and the company agreed he should resign ... Cablevision's Dolan family-founded media measurement and analytics firm 605 hires technology consultant Daniel Berg as its first chief technology officer ... Madison Square Garden Co. moves up Andrew Lustgarten to president.
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ICANN moves internet assigned numbers authority expert Kim Davies to vice president-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority services and president-public technical identifiers, effective Jan. 1. succeeding Elise Gerich, departing ... Qumu promotes interim Chief Financial Officer David Ristow to CFO ... TierPoint, supplier of IT infrastructure services, hires Andrew Baird, ex-Audible, as vice president-marketing ...Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to give keynote interview at Smart Cities at CES 2018 conference Jan. 10, 10:30 a.m., Westgate Hotel ... Cypress Semiconductor appoints Jeannine Sargent, ex-Flex executive, to its board.