Jones Day hires Michael Hazzard, ex-Arent Fox, as partner, Government Regulation Practice, focusing on IT and telecom ... 21st Century Fox promotes Craig Kurland to executive vice president-business affairs, Fox Broadcasting ... Neustar hires Tom Pageler, ex-DocuSign, as chief risk officer and chief information security officer ... Qorvo hires Mark Murphy, ex-Delphi Automotive, as chief financial officer, effective June 6, succeeding Steven Buhaly, who had said he's retiring and will remain in an advisory role until July 31 ... GfK promotes Gregg Lindner to managing director, GfK MRI ... Rubicon Project Chief Financial Officer Todd Tappin resigns to become president at another unidentified company; Chief Accounting Officer David Day named interim CFO ... Stratasys hires Tim Bohling, ex-IBM, as chief marketing officer.
National Wireless Safety Alliance hires Chuck Slagle, who has consulted for NWSA and is ex-Sprint, as executive director ... Congressional Budget Office promotes General Counsel Mark Hadley to deputy director, effective June 6, succeeding Bob Sunshine, who moves to senior adviser, Director’s Office ... Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute hires Domenika Lynch, now at Latino Alumni Association at the University of Southern California, as president-CEO, effective July 1 ... ICANN hires Matt Larson, ex-Dyn, as vice president-research ... AT&T hires Anthony Robbins, ex-Brocade, as vice president-public sector solutions/global defense, AT&T Business Solutions ... Univision Communications promotes to Univision News vice presidents and executive producers María Martínez-Guzmán, newsgathering, and Gabriela Tristán, news production.
Starz hires Pamela Wolfe, ex-Eleventh Hour Entertainment, as executive vice president-human resources ... Starting wearable tech firm iBeat, Ryan Howard, ex-Practice Fusion, named CEO, and company said others from Practice Fusion joining are Larry Stone, named lead front-end architect, Brian Boarini, working on product and business development and Kristin Tinsley, running public relations and marketing ... InFocus names Dave Litwak, ex-MarketLive, senior vice president-worldwide sales, and Vikki Rehn, ex-Vigilent, as vice president-software engineering ... Viacom promotes Kristi Wasmer to senior vice president-retail sales, Nickelodeon Consumer Products ... DSP Group hires Daniel Amir, ex-Ladenburg Thalmann, as corporate vice president-business development, strategy and investor relations.
Qualcomm promotes John Kuzin to vice president-regulatory counsel ... Evine Live hires Michael Henry, ex-Eastern Home Shopping, as senior vice president-chief merchandising officer ... In RigNet restructuring and cost cuts, Systems Integration and Automation reports to Group Vice President-Managed Services Hector Maytorena, as Group Vice President-Telecoms Systems Integration Gerry Gutierrez leaves ... CellTrak Technologies hires include Heidi Ewell, ex-Truven Health Analytics, as vice president-provider sales, North America ... Raycom's Jim Serra, vice president-general manager of KPLC Lake Charles, Louisiana, retiring, effective in June ... Lobbyist registrations: Federal Aviation Administration Managers Association, Liz Williams and Co., effective March 7 ... United Launch Alliance, The Madison Group, effective April 7.
O3b moves Jack Deasy to lead U.S. and international government sales and business development efforts as vice president-government solutions ... Time Inc. hires MaryAnn Bekkedahl, ex-Keep Holdings, as president, fashion & luxury, effective June 1, and promotes immediately Charlie Kammerer to president-lifestyle ... Thin Film Electronics hires Christian Delay, ex-IAC's Ask Partner Network, as senior vice president-strategic marketing and general manager, software platforms, and has promoted Bill Cummings to senior vice president-corporate communications ... Univision's The Root promotes Danielle Belton to managing editor, succeeding Lyne Pitts, planning to retire from her full-time position ... Xerox's Ursula Burns to be chairwoman-Document Technology following the separation of Xerox into two independent, publicly traded companies and until then remains chairwoman-CEO of company ... Navigant adds to board Kevin Blakely, financial risk management expert ... Lobbyist registration: Harris Corp., Porter Group, effective April 25.
Marvell Technology Group hires Mitchell Gaynor, ex-Juniper Networks, as executive vice president-chief legal officer ... Adobe hires Cynthia Stoddard, ex-NetApp, as senior vice president-chief information officer, effective June 13 ... Entravision promotes Don Daboub to executive vice president, Integrated Marketing Solutions' mountain region ... Forrester hires Mack Brothers, ex-IHS, as chief consulting officer ... Extreme Networks hires Drew Davies, ex-Marvell Semiconductor, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective June 1, succeeding Ken Arola ... Mozilla hires Alex Salkever, ex-Silk.co, as vice president-marketing communications ... Raycom Media promotes Josh Young to vice president-general manager of Texas' KWES-TV Odessa and KTXC(FM) Lamesa.
Casey Rae to step down as Future of Music Coalition CEO, effective June 6; Board President Dick Huey becomes interim CEO; Kevin Erickson to assume expanded role in organizing and policy ... Katharina Kopp, ex-Center for Media Education and American Express, will become Center for Digital Democracy deputy director and director-policy, effective June 6 ... Windstream names Beth Lackey, ex-Covad and US West, senior vice president-carrier operations ... Birch Communications names Jim O'Brien, ex-Rise Broadband, executive vice president-chief operations officer ... Radio One hires Jennifer Turec LaMontagne, ex-WBLS-FM/WLIB-AM New York as regional director-national and corporate sales ... Marvell Technology Group appoints Michael Strachan, ex-Ernst & Young, to its board, which expands to 11 members ... Aviso, sales forecast software provider, adds Ron Huddleston, Microsoft corporate vice president, to its board.
Victoria Luxardo Jeffries, ex-Wilson Sonsini, joins Univision's Washington office as associate general counsel-vice president-public policy ... Rob Mesirow, ex-CTIA, joined PwC as a principal in Washington ... RFID and GPS firm PrecyseTech names Paul Silverman, ex-Xerox and IBM, and author and consultant, president-CEO ... Router and software firm Utah Scientific names Scott Barella, ex-5280 Broadcast, chief technology officer.
Blue Jay Wireless adds Robert Mansur, ex-Nielsen and Samsung, as chief technology officer ... IT solutions provider NetSol Technologies names Jeffrey Bilbrey, ex-Majesco, president-North America ... Discovery Communications promotes Robert Scanlon to executive vice president-general manager, Velocity and Automotive Content ... Disney promotes Michael Vargo to vice president-special events and Disney corporate creative resources ... Cur Media hires board member Bill Campbell, ex-Barefoot Media, as chief strategy officer ... Lobbyist registrations: Dropbox, registering on behalf of itself, effective April 1 ... Ligado Networks, Perkins Coie, effective April 4 ... Northrop Grumman, McDermott Will & Emery, effective April 1 ... T-Mobile, Thorn Run Partners, effective April 1.
Facebook hires Paul Grewal, U.S. magistrate judge for the Northern District of California, as deputy general counsel, overseeing global litigation, effective in late June ... Leaving ICANN are Chief Contract Compliance Officer Allen Grogan, who goes part time Aug. 1 and leaves at year's end overseeing contractual compliance and consumer safeguards, and Senior Vice President-Development and Public Responsibility Programs Nora Abusitta, doing a short part-time stint after June 1 ... Zenith Electronics Chief Patent Counsel Jack Kail retires.