President Barack Obama plans to nominate Brandon McBride, Senate Agriculture Committee staffer, to be administrator, Rural Utilities Service ... Frontier Communications hires AJ Burton, ex-Hogan Lovells, as director-federal regulatory affairs ... Madison Square Garden Co. President-CEO Tad Smith resigns, hired to same jobs by Sotheby's, which also adds him to board ...Newtec hires Kevin McCarthy, ex-MTN Satellite Communications, as vice president-market development ... Openwave Messaging hires Lokdeep Singh, ex-Syniverse, as chief product officer, and Jay Seaton, ex-GlassHouse Technologies, as senior vice president-marketing and business development ... Black Box moves Vice President Rick Gannon to that position in operations, North America Commercial Services.