Moves at SeaChange: Founder Bill Styslinger to retire as CEO and...

December 1, 2011 |Communications Personals

Moves at SeaChange: Founder Bill Styslinger to retire as CEO and chairman; board member Raghu Rau named interim CEO; Director Thomas Olson named chairman … Dean Manson, Hughes Networks, becomes EchoStar executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, remains general counsel of subsidiary Hughes Communications … Chris Thomes, ex-Saban Brands, named Disney/ABC TV Group vice president, digital media studios … Bernard Gershon, ex-Disney, joins Earth911 advisory board … New Telecom Industry Association board members: Bryan Glutting, ACS Solutions; Vish Nandlall, Ericsson; Stratton Nicolaides, Numerex; Geoff Roman, Motorola Mobility; Steve Sifferman, Tarana Wireless … New at American Intellectual Property Law Association: President William Barber, Pirkey Barber; President-elect Jeffrey Lewis, Patterson Belknap; First Vice President Wayne Sobon, Rambus; Second Vice President Sharon Israel, Mayer Brown; Immediate Past President David Hill, Finnegan, Henderson; Secretary Elizabeth Morgan, Morgan Law Firm; Treasurer Georgann Grunebach, Fox Legal Group; board members Barbara Fiacco of Foley Hoag, Kevin Tottis of Law Offices of Kevin Tottis, Chen Wang, DuPont, Michael Martinez de Andino of Hunton & Williams; Mark Whitaker of Baker Botts named general counsel … SES names Ferenc Szelenyi, ex-Dell, senior vice president-commercial, Europe, replacing Norbert Hotzle, leaving company … Spanish Broadcasting System promotes Jackie Nosti-Cambo to vice president-business analytics … CommLaw Group promotes Michael Donahue to partner.