Rachel Weiner Cohen, ex-WilmerHale, joins Latham & Watkins Intellectual Property Litigation Practice ... Discovery adds Peter Faricy, ex-Amazon, in new role of CEO-Global Direct-to-Consumer ... Tylie Ad Solutions hires Jack McKee, ex-Ceiva Energy, as executive vice president-client development and marketing ... Cox advances John Hatfield to vice president-aviation, succeeding Barry Campbell, who retires ... NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Executive Vice President Monica Gil adds title of chief marketing officer; Peter Blacker promoted to executive vice president-revenue strategy and innovation; and Ronald Day moves up to executive vice president-entertainment, Telemundo Networks ... Karen Hobson promoted to senior vice president-communications, Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International segment.
CTA hires Rene Quashie, ex-Cozen O'Connor, as vice president-policy and regulatory affairs, digital health, new post ... NCTA named Amy Bender, ex-FCC, vice president-legislative counsel, Government Relations department (see 1808020027), succeeding Dianne Smith, who previously retired ... DLA Piper promotes Elisha King to general counsel, succeeding Peter Pantaleo, becoming senior counsel at year's end ... General Motors names Everett Eissenstat, ex-White House and ex-Senate Finance Committee, senior vice president-global public policy.
Related to FCC changes announced at commissioners' meeting Thursday and according to various officials: NCTA hires Amy Bender, departing wireline legal adviser to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, as vice president-legislative counsel, Government Relations department; Facebook hires Deputy Media Bureau Chief Mary Beth Murphy; Betsy McIntyre, deputy chief of Wireless Bureau Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division, named acting wireline adviser to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel during Travis Litman's paternity leave; Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief Madeleine Findley departing and is relocating; office of Commissioner Brendan Carr adds from Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Dana Howell as staff assistant; Office of Engineering and Technology Physical Scientist Ed Mantiply retiring.
Agilent says Didier Hirsch, senior vice president-chief financial officer, retiring, effective Oct. 31; Hologic CFO Robert McMahon hired, to be effective Friday, as senior vice president; and McMahon becomes CFO effective Sept. 1, when Hirsch steps down as finance chief ... In Broadvoice buying cloud communications services provider YipTel, the buyer, whose CEO is Jim Murphy, plans to run them separately through 2018, with YipTel leadership including CEO Robert Brown continuing "in senior management roles" ... Disney moves Meredith Roberts to newly created job: senior vice president-animation strategy, Disney Channels.
Google promotes Senior Vice President-General Counsel Kent Walker to senior vice president-global affairs to oversee policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams ... American Tower Executive Vice President and President-U.S. Tower Division Steven Marshall steps down, succeeded by the unit's Senior Vice President-General Counsel Steve Vondran; Marshall becomes strategic adviser, reporting to Chairman-CEO Jim Taiclet, through Oct. 31 ... Cox Enterprises adds consultant-adviser Luis Avila-Marco, ex-Juniper Networks and Scientific-Atlanta, now part of Cisco, as senior vice president-strategy and corporate development.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appoints Babette Boliek, Pepperdine University law school professor and associate dean-faculty research who will take a leave from there while she's at the commission, as agency's chief economist, succeeding Jerry Ellig, returning to academia, now as research professor at George Washington University, affiliated with Regulatory Studies Center; also Monday, Pai names to Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment: current ACDDE Vice Chair Diane Sutter, ShootingStar Broadcasting, to chair, succeeding Julia Johnson, NetCommunications, who resigns from committee; Anna Gomez, member of Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group, from Wiley Rein, as vice chair-member of the full committee; and Susan Au Allen, member of the empowerment and inclusion group from U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce, as full member, ACDDE.
MPAA promotions to senior vice presidents: Neil Fried for congressional and regulatory policy, and senior counsel-federal advocacy and strategic planning; Patrick Kilcur for federal affairs; and Greg Saphier for external affairs ...Disney and Hearst move up Paul Buccieri to president-A+E Networks Group after he was president-A+E Studios and A+E Networks Portfolio Group.
Nielsen CEO-board member Mitch Barns retiring at year's end, and until then continues running company and "key initiatives -- Total Audience, the Connected System and the efforts to automate and streamline operations"; Chairman James Attwood, Carlyle Group managing director, is named executive chairman and "will assume a more active role" and lead "the search for new leadership" ... At Verizon's Oath, Verizon Digital Media Services hires from Fox Network Groups Ariff Sidi as chief product officer ... Vonage taps Sanjay Macwan, ex-NBCUniversal Media Labs, as senior vice president-enterprise engineering and networks.
Entravision promotes Adam Lichtiger to senior vice president-sales in Washington, D.C. ... NCC Media, national advertising/technology company owned by Comcast, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, hires from Rakuten's Slice Technologies Bob Ivins as chief data officer, new post ... Brand Safety Institute cofounded by Neal Thurman, Coalition for Better Advertising director, as well as by Trustworthy Accountability Group CEO Mike Zaneis ... Extreme Reach adds Bunker Sessions, who has been consulting for it, as vice president of sell-side solutions.
Charter Communications says it hires Mark Balsano, ex-AT&T, as vice president-accessibility, and separately says that John Malone retires from the board and becomes director emeritus and Liberty Broadband nominee elected to the Charter board is Jim Meyer, SiriusXM CEO ... NBC Sports Group names Pete Bevacqua, who led PGA of America, to newly created position of president, effective in September ... Entercom appoints Stephanie Perl, ex-Tribune Broadcasting, senior vice president-market manager, Entercom Hartford, effective Aug. 6.