Information Technology Industry Council hires Jennifer McCloskey, ex-aide to Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., as director-government affairs ... Time Warner promotes Scott Miller to senior vice president-associate general counsel-legal and business affairs, Turner Broadcasting System's Turner Content Distribution ... Comcast promotes Anand Kini to chief financial officer, NBCUniversal; had been interim CFO ... Neustar hires Michael Krieger, ex-Department of Defense, to direct new Local Number Portability Administrator Transition Project Management Office, and he'll work with also past DOD officials Priscilla Guthrie and Roger Loeb; all are full-time consultants to the company.
Commerce Department hires Alan Davidson, leaving New America Foundation, as digital economy director and senior adviser to Secretary Penny Pritzker; NAF promotes Kevin Bankston to succeed Davidson as director of the foundation's Open Technology Institute ... Open Interconnect Consortium hires Mike Richmond, Intel, as executive director ... Avnet names Dee Dee Lear senior vice president-emerging channels for the Americas, Avnet Technology Solutions ... Cybergy Holdings hires Terry DiVittorio, ex-Knowledge Consulting Group, as vice president-cyber operations, Cybergy Labs ... Xoom, digital money transfer provider, adds to board Chris Shimojima, Provide Commerce ... Lobbyist registrations: 21st Century Fox, Arnall Golden, effective May 22 ... Cloudera Government Solutions, Twenty-First Century Group, effective April 13.
PowerPhone, emergency and 911 communications firm, moves Jerry Turk to president ... Capitol Music Group promotes Michelle Jubelirer to chief operating officer ... Mellanox promotes to vice presidents Mehdi Asghari for silicon photonics, Eyal Babish for hardware, Ronnen Lovinger for operations and corporate quality, Henning Lysdal for active interconnect engineering, and Alon Webman for silicon engineering ... Ruckus Wireless Chief Technology Officer Bill Kish leaving company and board to pursue new interests in technology ... International Technology Law Association elects Jenna Karadbil, Law Offices of Jenna Karadbil, president; Susan Barty, CMS Cameron McKenna, vice president; Robert Weiss, Neal Gerber, treasurer; Christian Frank, Taylor Wessing, secretary; Charles Morgan, McCarthy Tetrault, assistant secretary; and as regular board members Kevin Erdman, Reichel IP; Robert Milligan, Seyfarth & Shaw; Matthew Mousley, Duane Morris; Charles Mudd, Mudd Law Offices; Rory Radding, Locke Lord; and Eugene Weitz, SAI Global ... Open Data Center Alliance adds to board Samson David, Infosys, Edward Goldman, Intel, and Wanjing Li, China Unicom Group.
Senate confirms Patricia Cahill to Corporation for Public Broadcasting board, which she was on 2009-14, for a term ending in 2020 ... NARUC hires Jennifer Murphy, ex-Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, as assistant general counsel ... Millennial Media hires Ernie Cormier, ex-Nexage which Millennial acquired, as chief operating officer, and he'll be leaving Millennial's board ... Nexstar promotes Bill Evans to vice president-general manager of WSYR-TV Syracuse, New York, and associated mobile and digital operations, and names David Candelaria, ex-Entravision, to same job at KTSM-TV El Paso, Texas ... Discovery Communications hires Stacie Kronthal, ex-Network for Good, as vice president-account partnerships and implementation, Discovery Education ... Gannett promotes RJ Merritt to president-general manager of KREM and KSKN, both in Spokane ... Lobbyist registrations: DirecTV, Valente & Associates, effective April 1 ... Intel, Locke Lord Strategies, effective April 1 ... MusicFIRST, Valente & Associates, effective April 1.
Entertainment Software Association hires Stanley Pierre-Louis, ex-Viacom, as general counsel ... Sprint hires Kevin Crull, ex-Bell Media, as chief marketing officer ... Telecommunications Industry Association hires April Ward, ex-House Homeland Security Committee, as director-communications and public affairs ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers promotes Michael Martin to head Nashville membership office as vice president ... Wave promotes Steve Friedman to executive vice president-fiber design and construction, and hires Harold Zeitz, ex-Classmates.com, as president-chief operating officer ... Rockwell Automation promotes Thomas Donato to president, Europe, Middle East and Africa region ... ZigBee Alliance promotes Victor Berrios to vice president-technology ... Kopin hires Hideki Matsukawa, ex-Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., as chief display scientist, new post.
CenturyLink hires Cynthia Shelton, ex-General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, as vice president-special program sales, CenturyLink Government, leading federal sales team for the telco's intelligence and cybersecurity programs ... Qualstar promotes Daniel Jan to president; Steven Bronson steps down as president and remains CEO ... Bel Fuse promotes Dennis Ackerman to president, Bel Power Solutions, and Peter Bittner to president, Bel Connectivity Solutions ... Nintendo of America hires Doug Bowser, ex-Electronic Arts, as vice president to lead U.S. sales organization ... Nexstar promotes Stephen Freifeld to vice president-general manager, WJET-TV Erie, Pennsylvania, and associated mobile and digital operations, and he'll oversee Nexstar’s relationship with Mission Broadcasting’s affiliate WFXP Erie under a joint operating agreement ... Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Educational Foundation elects David Zagin, A+E Networks, to board.
CBS promotes Kelli Raftery to senior vice president-communications, including governmental affairs and other areas, effective June 1, succeeding Shannon Jacobs, named senior consultant, advising on carriage agreements, Washington issues and other subjects ... Allied Minds hires John Bruno, ex-VidSys, as senior vice president-chief financial officer, Federated Wireless ... Media General, opening Washington bureau, hires Jim Osman, ex-Gannett's WUSA Washington, as bureau chief ... Cox Enterprises promotes Dallas Clement to executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective July 1, succeeding Doug Franklin, retiring, effective Aug. 1.
Venable forms State Attorney General practice, led by Mark Pryor, ex-Democratic U.S. senator from Arkansas, and hires to the practice Kevin Turner, ex-aide to Republican Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, as counsel ... Jupiter Systems President Eric Wogsberg died; board member Jack Klingelhofer named chairman, while Chief Operating Officer Robert Worthington continues to manage company operations until a successor to Wogsberg is named ... Arista Networks hires Ita Brennan, ex-Infinera, as chief financial officer, a job done on interim basis by Chairman Andreas Bechtolsheim ... Resigning from Unwired Planet are Daniel Mendez and Timothy Robbins, effective July 1, as incoming CEO Boris Teksler, who begins June 1, will assume principal responsibility for intellectual property ... Specialists On Call, specialty telemedicine services provider, hires Hai Tran, ex-BioScrip, as chief financial officer.
InSite Wireless hires Richard Grimes, ex-Capital Tower Group from which InSite bought distributed antenna systems and telecom assets, as chief operating officer, DAS and Small Cells Group ... To be on eBay and PayPal boards when companies are separated: At eBay: current director Thomas Tierney will be chairman, and regular directors will be Fred Anderson, Elevation Partners; Edward Barnholt, ex-Agilent; Anthony Bates, GoPro; Bonnie Hammer, NBCUniversal; Kathleen Mitic, Sitch; Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network; Bob Swan, eBay chief financial officer; Perry Traquina, ex-Wellington Management; Devin Wenig, president and CEO-designee of eBay; at PayPal: Current eBay President and CEO John Donahoe will be chairman, and regular directors will be Jonathan Christodoro, Icahn Capital; Scott Cook, Intuit founder; David Dorman, CVS Caremark; Gail McGovern, American Red Cross; David Moffett, ex-Freddie Mac; Omidyar; Dan Schulman, PayPal president and CEO-designee; and Frank Yeary, CamberView Partners ... Maxwell Technologies adds to board Rick Bergman, Synaptics.
Center for Copyright Information hires Jim Kohlenberger, JK Strategies, as executive director, succeeding Jill Lesser, named senior adviser, and adds Stephen Balkam, Family Online Safety Institute, to advisory board ... Sony Electronics Senior Staff Engineer Luke Fay wins 2015 Bernard Lechner award for outstanding contributions to ATSC ... Lobbyist registration: Cyber Security and Defense Super PAC, Socci and Associates, effective May 1.