AT&T creates Global Public Sector organization and expands responsibilities of AT&T executive Kay Kapoor to lead it as president; Kapoor led AT&T’s public-private partnership for FirstNet, which was announced March 30 (see 1703300050) ... Salem Media Group Washington, D.C., Vice President-General Manager David Ruleman is retiring, effective at the end of June; he also has oversight of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Boston; Ruleman promotes Tom Moyer to general manager-Washington, already effective ... Hogan Lovells adds, all from Weil Gotshal, mergers and acquisitions partners Richard Climan, Keith Flaum and Jane Ross, and IP and Technology Transactions partner John Brockland ... SureID hires aviation and aerospace consultant Justin Oberman, ex-Transportation Security Administration, as vice president-identity strategy.
RIAA promotes Mitch Glazier to president, effective now, and to chairman-CEO, effective in January 2019; Chairman-CEO Cary Sherman retires, effective at the end of 2018 ... USTelecom hires Sally Aman, who ran her own firm, as senior vice president-communications and public affairs, succeeding Anne Veigle (see this section of the March 31 issue of this publication) ... Jenner & Block adds David Bitkower, ex-DOJ Criminal Division principal deputy assistant attorney general, as partner, White Collar Defense and Investigations practice.
Verizon hires Hans Vestberg, ex-Ericsson, as executive vice president, Network and Technology team; Marni Walden continues to report to Chairman-CEO Lowell McAdam, as does Vestberg, Walden is executive vice president, Media and Telematics, and continues leading integration and expansion of telematics; and John Stratton likewise reports to McAdam as executive vice president, Customer and Product Operations, and leads operations and sales for IoT products and services.
USTelecom's Anne Veigle, senior vice president-communications and ex-Communications Daily, decided to depart to pursue new opportunities ... Nexstar Media hires Gregory Raifman, ex-Rubicon Project, as president, Nexstar Digital, new post ... Space Foundation hires Tom Zelibor, ex-Lightwave Logic, as CEO, effective April 30 ... Windstream hires Christopher King, ex-Curo Health Services and telecom and cable analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, as vice president-investor relations ... Board of Conway Corp., operator of Conway, Arkansas-owned utility system including cable, phone and internet, promotes Chief Financial Officer Bret Carroll to CEO, succeeding Richard Arnold, retiring effective May 31.
Senate Commerce Committee adds telecom and tech aides: Cort Bush, ex-aide to Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, as professional staff member, and Crystal Tully, ex-aide to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as counsel ... FCC Wireless Bureau names Charles Mathias ombudsperson, single point of contact for issues of contraband wireless devices in correctional facilities and deployment of technologies used to combat them; he remains a bureau associate chief; agency notes the ombudsperson position stems from order commissioners approved at their meeting last week to combat such contraband devices (see 1703230056) ... Society for Science & the Public adds Kumar Garg, ex-Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior fellow.
FairPoint Communications names Mike Reed state president-Vermont, succeeding Beth Fastiggi, hired by the state's government as commissioner, Department of Human Resources; Reed remains the telco's state president-Maine ... Tessco Technologies reorganizes sales force, combining commercial sales and product teams under Senior Vice President Charles Kriete, now for commercial sales, product marketing and supply chain, and combines retail sales and product teams under Liz Robinson, promoted to senior vice president-retail sales and product marketing; Senior Vice President-Sales Pete Peterson resigns for personal reasons.
Viacom names Jim Gianopulos, ex-Fox Filmed Entertainment, as chairman-CEO, Paramount Pictures, effective April 3 ... Murphy & McGonigle hires Patricia Wallace, ex-Mathews Wallace LLP, as partner, leading Strategic Discovery and Information Management group and working on cybersecurity, technology and other issues ... In Spotify's buying MightyTV, the latter's founder-CEO Brian Adams joins as vice president-technology, the acquirer announces ... Avant adds Shane McNamara, ex-Qology Direct, as executive vice president-channel sales, East.
Hearst Television adds Andrew Fitzgerald, ex-Twitter, as chief digital content officer, new position, effective April 10 ... Layer3 TV hires Amos Smith, ex-Time Warner Cable, now part of Charter Communications, as chief financial officer ... Titan Platform US adds Kelly DiGregorio, ex-Lazada, which Alibaba acquired in April, as chief content officer, and Richard Sussman, ex-TiVo/Rovi, as chief revenue officer ... Nexstar Media promotes Carol Ward to vice president-general manager of Virginia's WAVY-TV Portsmouth, WVBT Virginia Beach and associated digital services ... Alessandro Feitosa, ex-Nokia, joins 5 Bars as vice president-solution engineering.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., hires Paul Tencher, ex-Evan Bayh for Senate campaign, as chief of staff ... Entercom hires Richard Schmaeling, ex-LIN Media until Media General bought it in December 2014 and more recently ex-Travel Leaders Group, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective April 18, succeeding Steve Fisher, stepping down April 30 as previously announced and continuing to assist with CBS Radio integration (see 1703210063) through January, it announced (here and here) ... Disney board extends Bob Iger’s contract as chairman-CEO to July 2, 2019, from June 30, 2018, it reports to SEC.
President Donald Trump's Director-Legislative Affairs Marc Short adds to Legislative Affairs Senate staff team: Amy Swonger as deputy assistant to the president and Senate deputy director-legislative affairs, Mary Elizabeth Taylor as deputy director-nominations, and others ... Patrick Ross, ex-Patent and Trademark Office and ex-Warren Communications News, joins Procopio law firm as senior manager-marketing and communications ... MicroTech hires satellite executive Joseph Uglialoro as chief administrative officer-general counsel.