FCC appoints Ronald Brisé, Florida Public Service Commission, to Universal Service Administrative Co. board to represent state telecom regulators, filling vacant position that was occupied by Randy Mitchell of South Carolina … Derek Chang leaving DirecTV as executive vice president of content strategy and development at year’s end, being replaced by Dan York, ex-AT&T, who in early July will become executive vice president of programming and chief content officer.
FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick steps down in mid-June, to be replaced by Deputy General Counsel Sean Lev … Sunrise Telecom board changes: Peter Kamin, 3K Limited Partnership, and Alan Howe, Broadband Initiatives, added, as directors; Henry Huff and Jennifer Walt resign … Open Internet Advisory Committee appointments: Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, chairman; David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, vice chairman; and members including Harvey Anderson, Mozilla; Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures; Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy & Technology; Leslie Daigle, Internet Society; Jessica Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition; Neil Hunt, Netflix; Charles Kalmanek, AT&T; Kevin McElearney, Comcast; Elaine Paul, Disney; Chip Sharp, Cisco; Charles Slocum, Writers Guild of America, West; and Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent.
Changes at FCC: Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel appoints three current agency staffers as interim advisers: Paul Murray, wireless; Joe Cavender, wireline; Holly Sauer, media … Tom Brown, special assistant to Chairman Julius Genachowski, to leave commission … Lobbyist Registrations: MetroPCS Wireless, ML Strategies, effective May 1 … Frontier Communications promotes Gregory Lundberg to vice president of investor relations and assistant treasurer … Univision Radio promotes Cesar Canales to vice president and general manager of its Dallas stations.
Michael Snyder, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, hired by FCC as deputy division chief for Web and print publications at Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau … National League of Cities Executive Director Donald Borut retiring at year’s end … NBCUniversal promotes Susan Malfa to senior vice president of ad sales for Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style Media and Women at NBCU, new position … Martha Stewart Living elects Martha Stewart non-executive chairman, succeeding Charles Koppelman.
Google promotes Rick Whitt to vice president and global head of public policy for Motorola Mobility following acquisition by Google … Neustar names Becky Burr chief privacy officer and deputy general counsel … David Helfgott promoted to president and CEO of Inmarsat Government … Rod Perth, ex-RHP Media, named president and CEO of NAPTE, replacing Rick Feldman who left in April … Spanish Broadcasting System promotes Richard Lom to vice president of SBS Entertainment.
Wireless Communications Association President Fred Campbell leaving association, no replacement named … Mark Powell named vice president of current programming & specials at truTV … Christo Doyle promoted to vice president-executive producer at Discovery Channel … Marc Miller, ex-Nintendo, named senior vice president-content protection, Internet, at the MPAA … David White confirmed as national executive director of newly formed SAG-AFTRA … Felipe Alvarez, ex-Sidera Networks, named to Perseus board … Lobbyist Registrations: LinkedIn, Monument Policy Group, effective April 10.
Lobbyist Registrations: Cisco, McGuireWoods Consulting, effective May 1.
FCC hires Brendan Holland, ex-Davis Wright, as assistant chief of Media Bureau’s Industry Analysis Division … Cablevision promotes Yvette Kanouff to executive vice president-corporate engineering and technology.
Jerry Genova, industry consultant, returns to Cablevision, named executive vice president of network management and field operations … Hearst Television Senior Vice President Philip Stolz moving to advisory role before retiring Feb. 1 … Spanish Broadcasting System promotes Albert Rodriguez to chief operating officer … Pivotal Research hires Steve Sweeney, ex-Citi Principal Strategies and Sandell Asset Management, as telecom analyst … Fox Networks promotions to vice president: Bonnie O'Donnell and Jody Vogelaar for distribution marketing; Sol Doten for communications.
Kathy Kleiman, ex-Internet Matters, returns to Fletcher Heald, where she’s named Internet counsel and co-lead of Internet law and policy group … Mediacom promotes Italia Commisso Weinand to executive vice president of programming and human resources … Sesame Workshop promotes Erica Branch-Ridley to vice president and executive in charge of production for Sesame Learning … Michael French, ex-Morgan Joseph Triartisan and Communications Daily, joins Spectrum Group as managing director … Telefónica Digital hires Wayne Thorsen, ex-BlueKai, as vice president of global partnerships … Adobe expands board by adding as directors: Amy Banse, Comcast Ventures; Frank Calderoni, Cisco; and Laura Desmond, Starcom MediaVest.