Discovery Communications hires Rich Ross, ex-Shine America, as president, Discovery, effective in January ... Rogers hires Deepak Khandelwal, ex-Google, as chief customer officer, effective Nov. 10; Mike Adams, interim chief customer officer, will lead some "key files" until he retires and moves back to the U.S. in June ... Intertrust Technologies hires Robert Tarjan, former chief scientist there who is a computer science professor at Princeton University, as chief scientist, to lead research on technical problems in trust and security on the Internet.