Communications Personals
CenturyLink CEO Glen Post retires effective May 23, when annual meeting is held, rather than Jan. 1, 2019, as was planned; President-Chief Operating Officer Jeff Storey to move up to CEO-president; Post said while he "will continue to serve the company as a board member, I will not assume the role of chairman of the board in order to ensure there is clarity that Jeff will be CenturyLink's new leader"; chairman will remain Harvey Perry; director Bruce Hanks is named lead independent director ... Gogo names director Oakleigh Thorne president-CEO, succeeding Michael Small, leaving board; Thorne steps down as CEO of Thorndale Farm, family office of the Thorne family, which is Gogo's top shareholder and he remains on Gogo's board.
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National Emergency Number Association adds Dan Henry, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, as director-government affairs, succeeding Trey Forgety, hired by Apple (see 1802210022) ... IPC -- Association Connecting Electronics Industries hires Chris Mitchell, ex-Prime Policy Group, as vice president-global government relations ... Monument Policy Group adds Bryan Alphin, ex-House Judiciary Committee staff, as legislative manager.
Frontier Communications hires Rob Curtis, ex-Bain & Co., as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... CBS adds John Arianas, ex-Pivot, as vice president-social impact partnerships ... FiberLight promotes Kevin Coyne to chief operating officer; Jay Anderson takes newly established job of chief engineer; Project Management Office created under Becky Ingram; construction, field services, and service delivery are now under Wayne Wooley, Ron Holt and April Stoume, respectively ... DataGryd data center operator hires Thomas Brown, ex-Windstream, as president-CEO ... Space tech venture capital firm Seraphim Capital adds Frédéric Rombaut, ex-Cisco Investment International and Qualcomm Ventures Europe, as general partner.
With Discovery Communications completing buy of Scripps Networks Interactive (see 1803060052), the combined company is now called Discovery Inc. and its board adds Kenneth Lowe, ex-SNI chairman-president-CEO ... Foundation for Rural Service board last week elected at an NTCA meeting in Austin: Eric Cramer, Wilkes Telephone Membership, who moves up to president; Carri Bennet, Womble Bond, advancing to vice president; and David Adams, Green Hills Telephone, moving up to secretary/treasurer ... Fitbit adds to board Brad Fluegel, recently retired from Walgreens.