Womble Carlyle promotes Betty Temple, whose clients include those in the tech industry, to chairwoman and CEO ... Arris, which just completed buy of Pace (see 1601040067), said: Bob Stanzione remains chairman-CEO; Dave Potts is executive vice president-chief financial officer; Larry Margolis leads integration as executive vice president-corporate strategy & administration; Larry Robinson and Bruce McClelland remain presidents of their respective units CPE and Network & Cloud and Global Services; Ron Coppock leads new international sales organization and is president-international sales and global marketing; Tim O’Loughlin from Pace becomes president-North American sales; Patrick Macken is senior vice president-general counsel and secretary, and Phil Baldock from Pace is named senior vice president-CIO.
FCC Media Bureau Associate Chief Holly Saurer succeeds, on acting basis, Chanelle Hardy, handling media issues for Commissioner Mignon Clyburn; Hardy, who also has been Clyburn's chief of staff, left the agency ... Tegna hires Nicholas Lehman, ex-NBCUniversal, as chief strategy officer ... Pitney Bowes hires Bob Guidotti, ex-IBM, as executive vice president-president, Software Solutions; Mark Wright, who led Pitney Bowes' Digital Commerce Solutions unit, named executive vice president-strategic growth initiatives ... Silicon Labs hires Brandon Tolany, ex-Freescale Semiconductor, as senior vice president-worldwide sales ... Frontier Communications CEO-Executive Chairwoman Maggie Wilderotter to be succeeded as chairwoman by board member Pamela Reeve effective April 1 ... Nielsen board elects board member James Attwood non-executive chairman, succeeding David Calhoun, who was executive chairman and remains on the board.
Lobbyist registration: ADS Alliance Data Systems, focused on credit card transactions, O'Rourke & Nappi, effective Nov. 16.
Newly elected to ATSC board for three-year terms beginning in January: Christopher Homer, PBS vice president-operations and engineering, Anne Schelle, Pearl TV executive director.
Lobbyist registration: Cybernet Systems, Jackson Lewis, effective Nov. 10.
Entercom promotes Stacey Kauffman to director-sales, Entercom Sacramento ... Jason Fairchild, OpenX, named co-chair of Interactive Advertising Bureau's Programmatic Council, joining co-chairs Bob Arnold, Google, and Jason White, CBS Interactive ... Indiana Broadcasters Association names Arland Communications principal Dave Arland executive director, effective in January ... Lobbyist registrations: Harmar Mobility, Arent Fox, effective Nov. 11 ... Western Digital Corp., Arent Fox, effective Nov. 17.
Sinclair Broadcast promotes Gregory Gilleland to general manager, Ring of Honor Wrestling ... Lobbyist registrations: CloudFactors, registering on behalf of itself, effective Dec. 14 ... IT firm incCommunications Services, K&L Gates, effective Oct. 5.
FCC Public Safety Bureau Policy and Licensing Division Chief Tom Beers retired ... Sprint promotes Brian Miller to president-Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee region, and Brian Hedlund to president-Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Virginia region, though Hedlund remains director-general business sales until the new regional structure is completely rolled out next year ... As part of Crestview Partners' agreement earlier this month to buy what it described as a "significant stake" in cable operator WOW, Jeffrey Marcus, a Crestview partner, named chairman, succeeding Colleen Abdoulah, retiring as chairwoman and remaining on the board, effective Jan. 1 ... Scripps Networks Interactive promotes Senior Vice President Suzanne Underwald to that role for business and legal affairs, content distribution & marketing, new position, which includes some linear and digital operations.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., promotes Nick Rossi to majority staff director, succeeding David Schwietert, leaving ... Best Best & Krieger confirms it has hired Drew Clark, ex-Kirton McConkie, as counsel, Municipal Law practice group, working on Internet technology, broadband deployment and intellectual property ... Information Technology Industry Council's IT Alliance for the Public Sector hires as senior managers, State, Local and Education Technology division Jordan Kroll, ex-Stateside Associates, and Liam Crawford, ex-National Governors Association ... Management changes at Apple: Jeff Williams promoted to chief operating officer; Johny Srouji promoted to senior vice president-hardware technologies; Phil Schiller’s role as senior vice president-worldwide marketing expanded to include responsibility for the App Store across all Apple platforms; Tor Myhren, ex-Grey Group, hired as vice president-marketing communications, effective in Q1, succeeding Hiroki Asai, retiring.
European Commission names Tiina Astola, Finnish Ministry of Justice, director general-justice and consumers, effective Feb. 1; effective immediately it names from the EC Sixtine Bouygues and Margaritis Schinas deputy-directors general, DG Communication; and moves Claire Bury to deputy director general-DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, effective in January ... Time Inc. hires Jennifer Wong, ex-PopSugar, as president-Time Inc. Digital, new position ... Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media promotes Courtney Holt to executive vice president-head, Maker Studios, succeeding Ynon Kreiz, Maker president, leaving the company effective Jan. 11 ... Nielsen promotes Steve Hasker to global president-chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1.