Samsung Telecommunications America hires Christina Pantin,...

Samsung Telecommunications America hires Christina Pantin, ex-Brunswick Group, as vice president-public relations … 8x8 hires Ragh Sarathy, ex-Dougherty & Co., as vice president-finance, new post … Wireless 20/20, broadband wireless consultant, hires Hideo Okinaka, ex-KDDI, as principal consultant … Tribune Co. elects Laura Walker, New York Public Radio, to board, replacing Eddy Hartenstein, who is becoming non-executive chairman of Tribune Publishing Co.’s board after its spin off from Tribune, whose stockholders voted to rename it Tribune Media Co.