Windstream hires Kevin Halpin, ex-Allied Wireless, as senior vice president-process development and improvement, and promotes Kristi Moody to senior vice president-law and corporate secretary ... Cablevision hires Cindi Buckwalter, ex-Scientific Games, as senior vice president-investor relations, and promotes Bret Richter to executive vice president-corporate finance and development ... Liberty Global moves Dana Strong to senior vice president-chief transformation officer ... MTS hires Lior Salansky, a former board member and executive of the company, as CEO ... Rejoining Electronic Frontier Foundation is Cory Doctorow, digital rights advocate, to oppose some digital rights management technologies as special consultant, Apollo 1201 Project to eradicate DRM ... National Music Publishers’ Association adds to board Jody Gerson, Universal Music Publishing Group, filling vacancy left by Zach Horowitz, ex-chairman UMPG ... Global Capacity adds to board Bill LaPerch, ex-AboveNet ... Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers names: Paul Stechly, Applied Electronics, as finance vice president, completing term of Matthew Goldman, elected in October as SMPTE executive vice president; William Miller, Miltag Media Technology, membership vice president; Douglas Sheer, D.I.S. Consulting, New York region governor; Andrew Setos, Blackstar Engineering, Hollywood region governor, succeeding Clyde Smith, stepping down in conjunction with retiring; and Paul Treleaven, ex-Avitel, standards director.