Charter Communications hires in Government Affairs Adam Falk, ex-Cablevision, as senior vice president, Waldo McMillan, ex-Capstone Counsel Group, as vice president, and Tamara Lipper Smith, ex-FCC Office of Strategic Policy, as vice president ... MPAA promotes Stan McCoy to president, Europe/Middle East/Africa region, succeeding Chris Marcich, promoted to president-international, new position ... Cowan DeBaets hires Doug Jacobs, ex-A&E Television Networks, as partner, New York office, working on cable-TV and digital media ... WeBoost hires Michael Mouser, ex-Navigation Solutions, as vice president-worldwide engineering.

Cox Enterprises promotes Neil Campbell to vice president-financial planning and analysis and Mark Dawson to vice president-information technology business solutions and moves Greg Jackson from Cox Communications to Cox Enterprises vice president-enterprise talent acquisition ... ESET North America hires Gerald Choung, ex-Qualcomm, as vice president-sales ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers names Balan Nair, Liberty Global, co-chairman of cable industry’s Energy 2020 plan ... Viacom extends employment contract of President-CEO Philippe Dauman by two years through Dec. 31, 2018 ... Lobbyist registration: National Alliance of State Broadcast Associations, Suskey Consulting, effective Jan. 1.