Davis Wright hires Wendy Kearns, ex-own boutique technology firm, as partner, technology transactional and mergers and acquisition practice in Seattle … Time Warner Inc. promotes Howard Averill to chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, succeeding John Martin, previously promoted to CEO, Turner Broadcasting System (CD July 18 p 16) … Lobbying registrations: Simulmedia, Balch & Bingham, effective June 3 … Stop Patent Abuse Now, Venable, effective June 14.
Northrop Grumman promotes Carol Erikson to vice president-engineering, Space Systems business … Texas Instruments elects Ron Kirk, ex-U.S. Trade Representative who now is at Gibson Dunn, to board, effective Sept. 19 … Lobbying registrations: Twenty-First Century Fox, Quinn Gillespie & Associates, effective April 1 … Sypris Electronics, Washington Alliance Group, effective April 30 … Arris Group, Wiley Rein, effective June 21 … Time Warner Cable, Capitol Counsel, effective July 1.
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board hires Sharon Bradford Franklin, Constitution Project, as executive director, effective in August or September … Benton Foundation names Adrianne Benton Furniss, who has been on its boards, executive director, replacing Cecilia Garcia, who becomes senior adviser, and promotes Amina Fazlullah to director-policy … Merchant Customer Exchange mobile payment organization hires Dekkers Davidson, ex-Barclaycard US, as CEO … GfK promotes Florian Kahlert to managing director of U.S. media research firm GfK MRI, effective Aug. 1 … Viacom’s Nickelodeon promotes Amy Hyland to executive vice president-ad sales, strategy and planning, and Jeff Imberman to senior vice president-ad sales, Eastern region, and hires Justin Nesci, ex-J/T/N Advisors, to return to company as senior vice president-digital ad sales … Lobbying registrations: Cisco, Forbes-Tate, effective July 10 … Samsung Electronics, self registration, effective April 1.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., joins Senate Commerce Committee, as expected (CD July 17 p14), and hires Joey Wender, his legislative director when Markey was a member of the House, to his Senate staff … Time Warner Inc. promotes John Martin to CEO, Turner Broadcasting System, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Phil Kent, who will be chairman for a transition period next year … Viacom promotes to Nickelodeon Group senior vice presidents Matthew Duntemann for brand design, Pete Johnson, creative advertising, and Eric Squires, creative operations … Tollgrade Communications hires Kimberly Getgen, ex-Echelon Corp., as vice president-corporate marketing … Rogers Corp. consumer electronics and telecom infrastructure company adds Ganesh Moorthy, Microchip Technology, to board … Lobbying registrations: Boomerang Wireless and Telrite Corp., Kelley Drye, effective June 1 … Simulmedia, Balch & Bingham, effective June 3 … TwinLogic Strategies (on behalf of Sprint), Moore Consulting, effective June 15 … Big Easy Studios, Courson Nickel, effective July 1.
NBCUniversal hires Kimberley Harris, ex-Davis Polk, as executive vice president-general counsel, succeeding Rick Cotton, who had said he planned to step down as general counsel and now becomes senior counselor-IP protection, effective Sept. 3 … MPAA hires Shanna Winters, ex-House Foreign Relations Committee Democratic chief counsel, as senior vice president-global policy, new position … Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., hires Aaron Keyak, ex-National Jewish Democratic Council, as communications director, replacing Ilan Kayatsky, now at Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund … National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications President-CEO Nicol Turner-Lee resigns, effective July 31 … Tribune Co. hires Murray McQueen, ex-Channel West Group, as president-real estate, new position … bMobilized website-to-mobile content conversion firm hires Mark Caron, ex-consultant, as CEO, replacing Ben Seslija, staying with company and moving to Europe to focus on strategic partnerships … Named to Broadcasters Foundation of America board are: Brian Cobb, CobbCorp; Bill Hoffman, Cox Media Group; Brian Lawlor, E.W. Scripps TV Station Group; and Dan Mason, CBS Radio … Added to board of software-defined cloud networking firm Arista Networks are Charles Giancarlo, Silver Lake, and Ann Mather, also on boards of Netflix and MGM.
Aaron LaBerge rejoins ESPN as senior vice president-technology and product development after six-year stint as CEO of digital product development company Fanzter; he reports to Chief Technology Officer Chuck Pagano …The Bluetooth Special Interest Group names Minsoo Lee, chief research engineer for standards and technology at LG Electronics, to the Bluetooth SIG board … Mobile radio applications developer jacAPPS names Bob Kernen, ex-Sharecare, vice president-chief operating officer. … Univision promotes Ruth Gaviria to executive vice president-corporate marketing.
Mark Whittington, ex-Microsoft and Oracle, joins Command Consulting Group as partner … Univision promotes Sarah Madigan to the newly created position of executive vice president-content distribution … Tellabs names Lawrence Rieger, ex-Crowe Horwath, acting chief financial officer, succeeding Tom Minichiello, who resigned to become chief financial officer at Westell … Television changes: Don Ray retires as a regional vice president general manager of WSAZ-TV in Charleston/Huntington, W.Va.; Matt Jaquint promoted to general manager at WSAZ-TV; new vice presidents and general managers Don Vesely, WMTV, Madison, Wis., Heather Peeples, WCTV, Tallahassee, Vic Richards, WOWT Omaha, Susan Ramsett-Kretz, KOLN/KGIN and KSNB, Lincoln, Neb. … registrations: Softbank Holdings, Polsinelli, effective June 1 … Sprint, TwinLogic Strategies, effective June 17.
Command Consulting Group national security adviser hires Mark Whittington, ex-Microsoft, no title given.
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Margaret Louise Cummisky, now on staff of Senate Appropriations Committee and ex-Senate Commerce Committee, to be Department of Commerce assistant secretary for legislative and intergovernmental affairs … Genband Executive Chairman David Walsh becomes president and CEO after Charlie Vogt left for Harris Broadcast (CD July 10 p21) … Group 1200 Media digital and entertainment media company hires Mike DuBoise, ex-Universal Studios Home Entertainment, as chief operating officer … C-SAM mobile transactions technology company hires Kurt Weiss, ex-Citigroup, as managing director-global financial institutions, and Conrad Sheehan, ex-mPayy, as vice president and general manager-strategic initiatives.
FTC moves Pauline Ippolito to Bureau of Economics acting director, with Director Howard Shelanski having left Tuesday to become administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory affairs after his Senate confirmation June 27 … CTIA promotes Mark Sargent to vice president-certifications, Jaime Hjort to assistant vice president-government affairs and Will Colbert to director-Web & digital technology … Steptoe & Johnson hires Robert Rogers, ex-International Trade Commission administrative law judge, as senior counsel-Intellectual Property Department … MTN Satellite Communications hires Chris Leber, ex-ViaSat, as executive vice president-commercial business development, and Mark Walter, ex-Sheridan Healthcare, as chief financial officer, as CFO Peg Grayson moved to MTN Government Services and is president there, where MTN founder Richard Hadsall is chief technology officer, and as vice presidents are Mike Shakarji, ex-Inmarsat, for business development, and Catherine Melquist, ex-Astrium Services, for market development.