Spectrum Co ATSC 3.0 spectrum consortium founded by Sinclair and Nexstar hires John Hane, ex-Pillsbury Winthrop, as president ... FCC Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force Chief of Staff Thom Parisi leaving agency to return to private sector ... Moses & Singer expands Intellectual Property practice, naming as partners Toby Butterfield from Frankfurt Kurnit and Gregory Shatan from Bortstein Legal Group ... CTA promotes Jean Foster to senior vice president-marketing and communications, new post ... Ribbon Communications moves Tony Scarfo to executive vice president-products and research and development; John McCready, who had that job and was chief strategy officer, remains in latter post; Scarfo left predecessor firm Sonus in 2016 and was doing consulting.
WOW hires David Brunick, ex-Adelphia Communications, as chief human resources officer ... Sinclair hires TV executive who most recently founded a startup William Ballard as general manager, WPDE-TV Florence, South Carolina, and overseeing the company providing services to WWMB Florence ... National Association of Manufacturers adds lawyers to Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action: Peter Tolsdorf hired as vice president-litigation and deputy general counsel, succeeding Quentin Riegel, retiring; and Lindsey de la Torre joins as executive director, Manufacturers’ Accountability Project and special counsel, MCLA.
Meredith board elects Chairman-CEO Steve Lacy executive chairman and elects Chief Operating Officer-President Tom Harty president-CEO, effective Feb. 1 ... Dentons adds entertainment and sports commercial litigator from Greenberg Traurig Mark Trigg as partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice ... Cox Enterprises promotes Paul Scolese to vice president-government affairs and Andre Reese to vice president-information systems operations ... Communications Workers of America promotes Online Communications Director Beth Allen to CWA communications director, succeeding Candice Johnson, retiring effective Feb. 1.
Comcast hires from Liberty Global's Virgin Media Dana Strong as president-consumer services ... Equinix says CEO-board member Steve Smith resigns "after exercising poor judgment with respect to an employee matter," and board, accepting his resignation, names Executive Chairman Peter Van Camp interim CEO; he previously was CEO ... President Donald Trump is naming Suzette Kuhlow Kent, EY, administrator, Office of Electronic Government, Office of Management and Budget.
With NAB Executive Vice President John David moving from head, Radio Department, to senior adviser to the association (see 1801220016), the group's Steve Newberry adds oversight of that department; Newberry was hired a few months ago as executive vice president-strategic planning/special projects (see 1710130036); Newberry's duties also include overseeing new NAB building project; and in related news this week, a spokesman confirms the group agreed to sell its building for $31.6 million and will stay at 1771 N St. NW and rent it from Stream Realty until it moves, targeted for fall 2019, into its new building at 1 M St. SE.
FCC re-adds Sarah Whitesell, ex-Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women, as again deputy chief, Media Bureau ... NewTV hires Meg Whitman, leaving Hewlett Packard Enterprise (see 1711220003), as CEO, effective March 1; it was founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, named chairman ... Univision names Chief Marketing Officer Jessica Rodríguez to also be president-chief operating officer, UCI Networks, new post ... Lockheed Martin moves to vice presidents Bill Phelps promoted for external communications, succeeding Nettie Johnson, retiring; and Adam Sohn, ex-Amazon, hired, for Lockheed Martin Space Communications, succeeding Andrea Greenan, recently named vice president-internal communications.
Energous hires Daniel Lawless, ex-Broadcom, as vice president-regulatory affairs ... Twitter Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto resigns and SoFi board names him CEO and a director, effective March 1; SoFi interim CEO Tom Hutton, who has been executive chairman, named non-executive chairman ... Murgitroyd promotes trademark attorneys Anne Bashir and Eleanor Coates to directors-trademarks; director is similar to a partner ... Napster appoints management consultant Venesa Hoffmann vice president-business development and operations, Europe, Middle East and Africa ... Communications Engineering hires Scott Hempstead, ex-HA Design Group, as senior design engineer.
NATOA hires member Nancy Werner, ex-Beery Elsner, as general counsel, effective Feb. 5; Steve Traylor was executive director-general counsel until retiring effective Dec. 31, with Tonya Rideout having then moved up to executive director (see 1709270034) ... Executive Vice President-NAB Radio John David moves from day-to-day role as head, NAB Radio Department, effective Feb. 1, named senior adviser to the association ... Internet Association promotions/role expansions: Robert Callahan to lead State Government Affairs team; John Olsen oversees state government affairs in the Northeast as director-Northeast states; and State and Local Government Affairs Senior Manager Lauren Kimzey runs political engagement in California.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., joins Senate Commerce's Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet Subcommittee, following the departure of Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) from the committee ... Albert Shuldiner, ex-DTS and ex-Ibiquity Digital, named chief of the FCC Media Bureau’s Audio Division. To assure orderly transition, current Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle will temporarily assume new part-time role as senior adviser in the division ... Tim Koxlien will retain his title as TeleQuality CEO with completion of merger of Education Networks of America with TeleQuality Communications ... Univision Communications promotes Michael Mueller to senior vice president-business development.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appoints from office of Commissioner Brendan Carr Nirali Patel as special counsel; Carr hires to succeed Patel Will Adams, ex-Morgan Stanley, as legal adviser-wireless issues, and adds Andi Roane, ex-Public Safety Bureau, as staff assistant ... DLA Piper hires from Skadden Arps John Beahn as partner, Telecom practice, which is part of Intellectual Property and Technology practice ... AutoAlert's new chief operating officer is ex-Ford executive Jim Benintende.