Vivek Badrinath is stepping down from the Nokia board, effective immediately due to his appointment as CEO for Vodafone's Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific region, leaving the Nokia board with eight members through it 2017 Annual General Meeting ... Gabriel Torres, ex-T-Mobile USA, joins Sprint as president of the New England Region ... Julie Haddon, founder of consulting firm The Marketing Farm, named NFL Media senior vice president-marketing.
Charter Communications Chief Operating Officer John Bickham adds title of president ... Entravision names Michael Holderle, ex-Foster Communications, vice president-Integrated Marketing Solutions, McAllen, Texas ...Tribune Media promotes David Ulmer to chief technology officer, from interim CTO.
CTIA names former consultant Kelly Cole senior vice president-government affairs, effective Aug. 1 ... Cox Enterprises promotes Alexander Taylor to executive vice president-chief operating officer ... AT&T promotes Marvy Moore to vice president-general manager, Georgia and South Carolina ... Promotions at Impact Telecom: President-CEO Bob Beaty adds title of chairman; Doug Funsch becomes chief revenue officer ... Telemundo promotes Eduardo Suñol to vice president-Telemundo News Digital ... Mack Araki departs Sony America corporate communications July 31 after 30-year career at Sony to pursue new interests, may be reached at mack.araki@outlook.com.
Charter Communications elects Kim Crawford Goodman, ex-American Express and Dell, to its board and audit committee ... Frontier Communications named Michelle Wolloff, ex-AT&T and DirecTV, senior vice president-general manager, Southern California Westside territory ... Brightstar names Emer Timmons, ex-BT Group, chief marketing officer and president-strategic sales.
Discovery Communications advertising sales chief Joe Abruzzese to retire at the end of 2016 after 46-year career ... CBS/Lionsgate joint venture Pop names Justin Rosenblatt, ex-CW Network, executive vice president-original programming and development ... Telemundo promotes Lia Silkworth to senior vice president-insights and consumer development ... Ericsson President-CEO Hans Vestberg steps down and leaves board, effective immediately; Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Jan Frykhammar becomes interim CEO ... Lobbyist registrations: Enlighten IT Consulting, Ice Miller Strategies, effective April 13 ... InterDigital, Cascade Strategies, effective July 18.
American Civil Liberties Union adds David Cole, to take leave from Georgetown University Law Center, as national legal director, succeeding Steven Shapiro, retiring ... Disney|ABC Television Group adds John Solaro, ex-Microsoft, as head-user experience and product innovation for digital media, and Roger Tsai, ex-Gracenote, as vice president-digital strategy, business planning and operations for digital media ... Cylance hires John McClurg, ex-Dell, as vice president-Office of Security and Trust, and expands job of Malcolm Harkins to chief security and trust officer ... Altman Vilandrie & Co. promotes Alex Baker to principal, advises the firm’s Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector.
21st Century Fox said Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network Chairman-CEO Roger Ailes resigned; Rupert Murdoch, the overall company's executive chairman, named chairman and acting CEO of those businesses ... Univision Communications adds Diego Rodriguez, ex-FBI, as chief global security officer, new position ... Joining Sprint is Ismat Aziz, ex-Sam’s Club, as senior vice president-human resources, succeeding ex-HR head Sandy Price, retired ... Frontier Communications appoints Leticia Solis, ex-Verizon, as area general manager, Mid-Cities operations territory.
Rapid7 said it promotes Peter Kaes to general counsel and names to board Marc Brown, Microsoft, and Tom Schodorf, ex-Splunk ... Covington adds to Cybersecurity Incident Response team Stephen Surdu, ex-Mandiant, as senior cybersecurity adviser ... Nova, 3D visualization software-as-a-service venture started by DreamWorks Animation, names Seksom Suriyapa, ex-SuccessFactors, chief financial officer/general manager ... VimpelCom hires Dan Chapman, ex-Cameron International, as group chief compliance officer ... Delta Risk adds Chris Hendricks, ex-federal criminal investigator, as vice president-security operations services ... Pure Storage hires Vik Nagjee, ex-Epic, as vice president-chief technology officer, Global Healthcare Solutions ... Feed.fm hires Bill Dube, ex-PR Newswire, as vice president-sales and business development ... Shenandoah Telecommunications board elects Leigh Ann Schultz, MorganFranklin Consulting, as director ... Lobbyist registration: The Recording Academy, Manatt Phelps, effective May 1 ... Alliance of Puerto Rico telecom companies Alianza Puertorriquena de Telecommunications, Drinker Biddle, effective May 16 ... DoCoMo Pacific, Emblem Enterprise Services, effective Jan. 6.
Copyright Office promotes Sy Damle to general counsel/associate register-copyrights, effective July 31, succeeding General Counsel Jacqueline Charlesworth, moving to New York ... Fried Frank hires Robert Masters, ex-Paul Hastings, as partner, Litigation Department; his practice focuses on patent litigation, specifically in the technology sector ... Starz said it promotes Carrie Dolce, Todd Hoy and Gavin Wise to senior vice presidents, business & legal affairs; Deanne Bloch to vice president-business & legal affairs; John Martin to vice president-business & legal affairs-production labor relations; and Janine Scalise Boyd to vice president-business & creative affairs ... Simulmedia hires Tim Spengler, ex-iHeart Media, as president-chief revenue officer.
Crown Media hires Erin McIlvain, ex-Charter Communications, as executive vice president-content distribution and strategy, new position; Chief Financial Officer Andy Rooke becomes operations & chief financial officer; and Casey Gould promoted to vice president-advertising & digital sales ... Pritzker Group Venture Capital promotes Gabe Greenbaum, who has worked on software, marketplace technologies, machine learning and healthcare IT, to partner, and Peter Liu, who has worked on tech investments, to vice president ... Swift Navigation, GPS startup targeting autonomous vehicles, hires Zaka Ashraf, ex-EMC, as vice president-engineering ... Cytelligence, cybersecurity firm with clients in software, tech, telecom and other industries, hires Karen Ellis, ex-Entrust Datacard, as vice president-business development ... Lobbyist registrations: Alibaba Group, Baker & Hostetler, effective June 1 ... Claim Your Health Data Coalition, Jeffrey J. Kimbell and Associates, effective July 1 ... The Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, Venable, effective June 23 ... TransUnion, Hawksbill Group, effective June 1.