Covington & Burling hires Robyn Polashuk, ex-Greenberg Traurig, as...

Covington & Burling hires Robyn Polashuk, ex-Greenberg Traurig, as partner, communications and media practice, focusing on video content distribution … Back9Network promotes Charles Cox to CEO, replacing CEO and Chairman Jamie Bosworth, who resigned to pursue other career opportunities, and adds to job of President Carlos Silva to also be chief operating officer, as co-founder Reid Gorman named chief administrative officer and executive vice president-golf industry relations … Verizon hires George Fischer, ex-CA Technologies, as senior vice president-global sales, Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

Discovery Communications promotes Julie Meisner Eagle to vice president-production and development, Discovery Fit & Health, to be renamed Discovery Life Channel on Jan. 15 … Newly elected to CompTIA’s Vendor Advisory Council: Michael Swailes, Cisco, and Frank Raimondi, Intel, as co-chairmen; Laurie Evans, VMware, as vice chairwoman; George Psiharis, Clio, and Steve Pataky, FireEye, as new members … Magic Software hires Anuraj Soni, ex-Headstrong, as chief operating officer.