Communications Personals
Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen appoints Alden Abbott, who has worked at Heritage Foundation Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, acting general counsel; acting FTC General Counsel David Shonka left for private practice (see this section of this publication's March 27 edition); Heritage says Abbott has left that organization to work for the commission, where he also worked in a past stint ... Nobuaki Kurumatani, ex-CVC Asia Pacific Japan and former Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, takes helm at Toshiba as first chairman-CEO to be hired from outside the company in more than 50 years, replacing Satoshi Tsunakawa, who becomes president-chief operating officer.
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Starz adds Lauren Townsend, ex-Sony Pictures Television, as executive vice president-communications, succeeding Theano Apostolou, who the company said in December was stepping down ... Sinclair promotes James Hanning to general manager, WNWO-TV Toledo, Ohio.
SMPTE Fellow Thomas Bause Mason, ex-Open Media Consulting, joins staff as director-standards development; Howard Lukk returning to career in postproduction, ending effective in May tenure as SMPTE director-engineering and standards ... Amphenol adds Anne Clarke Wolff, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, to its board.