Named to FCC Technical Advisory Council: Shahid Ahmed, Accenture; Wesley Clark, U.S. Army, retired; Paul Mankiewich, Juniper Networks; John Marinho, Dell; Deven Parekh, Insight Venture Partners; Russ Gyurek, Cisco … Lobbyist registrations effective Jan. 1: Colin Crowell, Crowell Strategies, lobbying for Google on green technology, wireless, copyright and telecom competition issues; Paul Unger, former Republican aide in the House and Senate, working for Comcast on telecom and broadcast issues and net neutrality, and also for the NCTA on net neutrality, broadcasting issues and spectrum … Consultant Glenn Brown joins Rural Broadband Alliance as special adviser and federal-state liaison … MTV Networks promotes Colleen Fahey Rush to executive vice president and chief research officer, new position.
Edward Hassi, ex-O'Melveny & Myers, becomes chief litigation counsel for FTC Bureau of Competition … Andrew Halataei, ex-Stanton Park Group, becomes Information Technology Industry Council director-federal relations … Nokia Siemens Networks names Marco Schroter, ex-Infineon Technologies, chief financial officer … Rajiv Laroia, ex-Flarion, becomes Sonus Networks chief technology officer and senior vice president … Ted Schremp resigns as Charter executive vice president-operations and marketing, citing personal reasons … Ted Garcia, ex-Universal Music Group, hired by PWC as managing director of U.S. entertainment, media and communications practice working on digital and physical content issues.
Anne Boyle, Nebraska PSC, named to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service … Catherine Martin, ex-aide to President George W. Bush, becomes Facebook director-public policy, effective Feb. 21 … DirecTV adds Lorrie Norrington, ex-eBay, to board … Nokia names ex-consultant Chris Weber president of Nokia U.S. and head of markets, North America.
New area presidents at Leap Wireless: David Davis, south; Glen Flowers, ex-MetroPCS, east; Annette Jacobs, west … New Interop Technologies board members: Fred Tannenbaum, Gould & Ratner, and Brian Rich, Catalyst Investors … TLC promotos Laura Staro to senior vice president of research … Cox Communications names Tim McKinley and Steve Rowley, both vice presidents, company officers.
Liberty Media board member Ian Gilchrist joins Sidebar board … George Riedel, ex-Juniper Networks, joins Accedian Networks board …Microsoft promotes Satya Nadella to president of its server and tools business …Disney/ABC TV Group promotes Adam Sanderson to senior vice president-franchise management … Arbitron names Richard Surratt executive vice president of finance, and he will soon become chief financial officer, succeeding Sean Creamer, previously promoted … TruTV promotions to senior vice president: Robyn Hutt for original programming; and Anthony Horn for current programming and specials … Joining Insight Communications as vice presidents: Mitch Weinraub for product development; and Keely Bostock for programming and video services.
Tim Wu to take leave from Columbia Law School to become senior FTC advisor for consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile markets, starting Feb. 14 in Office of Policy Planning … Changes at CBS: Sean McManus promoted to chairman of CBS Sports; David Rhodes, ex-Bloomberg, to replace him as president of news division; Jeff Fager promoted to chairman of CBS News, new position … John MacLean, ex-city of Philadelphia, becomes Region IV regional coordinator, FCC Office of Emergency Communications, Feb. 14 … Turner Entertainment Networks promotes Jeff Gregor to added position of TCM general manager … Nancy Daniels promoted to Discovery Channel executive vice president-production and development … Cumulus Media elevates Leslie Brimeyer to vice president-financial operations … Kamar Shah, ex-Nokia, becomes mySpark Technologies global vice president-marketing and business development … NeoNova Network Services adds Hal Turner, Pac-West Telecomm, as chairman.
Promotions in Rainbow Media legal department: Sharon Davis, Laura Sher to senior vice presidents-legal and business affairs; Denyse Santoro to vice president-legal and business affairs … Wendy Goldberg, ex-Hearst, becomes Clear Channel Radio executive vice president-marketing and communications … John Smith, ex-Clearwire and Brightpoint, becomes PCS Wireless vice president-sales.
Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy & Technology, named to Internet Architecture Board … Elected to Pandora’s board: Peter Chernin, Chernin Group; and Barry McCarthy, ex-Netflix …
Amy Levine, former aide to ex-Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., hired by FCC (CD Feb 1 p7) as special counsel to Chairman Julius Genachowski, working in Office of Strategic Planning on spectrum and public-safety issues … Former NTIA Administrator John Kneuer joins Globalstar board … Cox Media Group promotes Gregg Lindahl to senior vice president-digital and strategy, heading newly combined CMGdigital and Corporate Business Strategy groups … AccuWeather hires ex-consultant Bradley Mitchell as the chief commercial officer, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions … Telcordia Senior Vice President James Payne named to three-year term on AFCEA International Cyber Committee.
Kari Amstutz, confidential assistant to Commissioner Meredith Baker, leaves FCC to return to Minnesota; Lori Alexiou, ex-Office of General Counsel, replaces her … Citadel Broadcasting names Hilary Glassman, ex-Frontier Communications, senior vice president-general counsel … TVB hires Susan Converse, ex-Riverside Church, as vice president of finance and administration, taking over most of duties of Chief Operating Officer Hope Etheridge, leaving for Doctors Without Borders … Gerard Kleisterlee, who will retire as Philips CEO on March 31, named to succeed John Bond as Vodafone chairman when Bond retires in July; Philips previously named former Philips Consumer Electronics executive Frans Van Houten to succeed Kleisterlee … Discovery Networks promotes Ivan Bargueiras to general manager, U.S. Hispanic Group … HSN names Jill Braff, ex-Scrapblog, executive vice president-digital commerce … LIN Media promotes William Gaffney to vice president-digital operations, and Michael Kelly to vice president-digital revenue.