Raycom’s Wayne Daugherty, executive vice president and chief operating officer, retiring, effective Dec. 31 … In realigning Advanced Solutions Organization in combining ForHealth and Public Sector teams into new Education team, AT&T expands responsibilities of Jim Bugel to run it as vice president-government, education and medical/public safety in AT&T Business Solutions … Calient Technologies promotes Jag Setlur to chief operating officer, new position at the optical circuit switching technology company, where he remains chief financial officer … Peak 10 in management realignment promotes Allen Skipper to chief commercial officer of data center company … Lobbyist registrations: Application Developers Alliance, Winn Strategies, effective Oct. 21 … Cyber Cities, Arent Fox, effective Oct. 2 … NAB, Gephardt Group Government Affairs, effective Oct. 21 … Disney, Clark Lytle, effective Oct. 1.
Cellular network extender technology firm 5BARz International elects as chairman Gil Amelio, who recently stepped down from AT&T board … National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates elects to one-year term: Lewis Mills, Missouri Public Counsel, president; Robert Nelson, Montana Consumer Counsel, vice president; Michelle Beck, Utah Office of Consumer Services, treasurer; and J.R. Kelly, Florida Public Counsel, secretary.
New in office of FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly: previous Wireless Bureau Mobility Division Assistant Chief Erin McGrath as acting legal adviser for wireless; previous Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division Deputy Chief Amy Bender as acting legal adviser for wireline; and from Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau are both Susan Fisenne as acting confidential assistant and Brittany Gomes as acting staff assistant … Waller Capital Partners hires Richard Juarez, ex-Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, as managing director to lead cloud and software-as-a-service sectors, based in communication brokerage’s new San Francisco office … Arris Senior Vice President-Strategic Market Development Sandy Howe now also runs the company’s marketing and communications … Harmonic hires Frank Montalto, ex-Cisco, as regional vice president-North American cable and telco, and Spencer Hodson, also ex-Cisco, as vice president-sales strategy, operations and enablement … Viaccess-Orca video content protection firm hires Chem Assayag, ex-OpenTV, as executive vice president-sales … Univision promotes Lourdes Torres to vice president-regional news and director-special projects, Univision News … WTA adds Darby McCarty, Smithville Communications, to board.
President Barack Obama plans to nominate FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez to be a member of the council of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. … Office of Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, hires Sharlett Mena, ex-office of Rep. Albio Sires, D-N.J., as communications director and Washington scheduler, replacing Veronica Custer, hired by Strategic Public Affairs as director-communications and social media in Houston, new position … 21st Century Fox promotes Jeff Krolik to president, Fox Sports Regional Networks … WWE hires Matthew Singerman, ex-cable channel industry consultant, as executive vice president-programming, new position … Scripps Networks Interactive promotes Allison Page to general manager, home category … Forbidden Technologies cloud video platform company hires Brian Boring, ex-MelroseMAC, as general manager-North American sales and strategic partnerships … Taking office on Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers 2014-'15 board are Alan Lambshead, ex-Evertz Microsystems, as standards vice president; Karl Joseph Kuhn, Tektronix, Eastern region governor; John Ferder, CBS, New York region governor; and Dan Burnett, Ericsson Television, Southern region governor.
FTC hires Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University, as chief technologist, effective in January, and Andrea Matwyshyn, University of Pennsylvania, as senior policy advisor on privacy and data security in Office of Policy Planning, effective next month … Harris Broadcast hires Steve Reynolds, ex-Comcast, as chief technology officer and Skip Sorenson, ex-CompuCom, as chief financial officer … Tribune Co. moves Rich Graziano to president/general manager, WPIX New York, succeeding Eric Meyrowitz, departing the company, and Graziano continues running Connecticut stations WTIC-TV Hartford and WCCT-TV Waterbury until a new general manager is named … Bright House Networks hires Alan Mason, ex-Time Warner Cable, as vice president/general manager-news and local programming, effective Dec. 30.
AT&T promotes Rich Guidotti to oversee operations in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi as general manager, and he remains vice president … Named to NPR board as public members are Fabiola Arredondo, Siempre Holdings, and Chris Boskin, media consultant; also joining board are Kerry Swanson, Northwest Public Radio, and Howard Wollner, ex-Starbucks and now new chairman of NPR Foundation’s board.
Motorola Solutions promotes Gino Bonanotte to chief financial officer, after he was acting CFO, and executive vice president … CBS hires Mickey Carter as senior vice president-TV networks distribution, after recently hiring another ex-Fox executive, Jonathan Sarrow, for similar role … MPAA hires Steven Fabrizio, ex-Jenner & Block, as senior executive vice president-global general counsel, effective early next month.
CBS hires Larry Tu, ex-Dell, as senior executive vice president and chief legal officer, based in Los Angeles, effective in early January, succeeding Louis Briskman, retiring (CD Nov 13 p15) … Xangati hires Sundi Sundaresh, adviser to the cloud company that has customers including Comcast and eBay, as president and CEO.
CBS Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel Louis Briskman to retire by year’s end … Covington & Burling hires Aaron Cooper, leaving Senate Judiciary Committee as chief intellectual property and antitrust counsel, as of counsel for global public policy and government affairs practice, effective Dec. 9 … Garvey Schubert brings in Judy Endejan, ex-Graham & Dunn, as an owner in the communications practice and in Seattle office … Verizon Enterprise Solutions hires Eddie Schwartz, ex-RSA, as vice president heading security and cyberintelligence practice.
Young Broadcasting hires Kenny Lawrence, ex-Meredith Corp., as general manager of KLFY-TV, Lafayette, La., replacing Mike Barras, retiring at year’s end and to be senior adviser through June.