Time Warner promotes Pascal Desroches...

Time Warner promotes Pascal Desroches to executive vice president-chief financial officer, Turner Broadcasting System, effective Jan. 1; he'll be succeeded by Doug Horne, promoted to Time Warner senior vice president and controller … Information Technology Industry Council hires Sarah Beth Groshart, ex-aide to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as director-government affairs and legislative counsel … Northrop Grumman names Tom McLemore, ex-House Appropriations Committee aide, as vice president-legislative affairs, cybersecurity, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence and space.

Internap Network Services hires Pete Bell, ex-NTT Communications, as senior vice president-global sales … Frontier Communications moves Zachary Tomblin to become area general manager, Eastern Connecticut, and hires Joseph Ferraiolo, ex-Auto and Boat Relocation Services, as area general manager, New Haven County … Cox Media Group Radio moves station group vice president/general mangers Donna Hall to Atlanta, Ben Reed to San Antonio and Dan Lawrie to Tulsa … Open Networking Foundation elects to board Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, replacing Scott Shenker, University of California-Berkeley.

Disney extends contract of Chairman and CEO Robert Iger through June 30, 2018 … Newly elected Rural Wireless Association directors for 2014-15 are Greg Lowe, Syringa Wireless, and Bert Potts, Strata Networks, and officers are Steve Lysne, SRT Communications, as president, Brian Woody, Union Wireless, vice president, Shawn Hanson, Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, treasurer, and Michael Kilgore, Sagebrush Cellular, secretary … Among the newly elected to CEA executive board: John Penney, Starz. Among the newly elected to CEA board of industry leaders: Jeff Bradley, AT&T; Joe Stinziano, Samsung; and Bob Struble, iBiquity Digital … iKare’s Satelles, provider of time and location technology over Iridium’s satellites, adds to board Richard Perry, ex-Security Networks … Lobbyist registrations: Telephone Systems International, Becker & Poliakoff, effective Aug. 18 … Advanced Medical Technology Association, Crossroads Strategies, effective Sept. 1.