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.

FCC hires Olga Madruga-Forti, ex-Arsat Telecomm, as chief, Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division of the International Bureau, where she has previously worked ... Greenberg Traurig hires California State Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, as chairman, California Government Law & Policy Practice, effective Dec. 1 after his final term expires ... Hogan Lovells hires Aaron Cutler, former aide to then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., as partner, Legislative group; his experience includes telecom and technology ... Kirton McConkie hires Drew Clark, Broadband Breakfast Club founder, as of counsel, Telecommunications Practice Group, which advises state and local governments in deploying broadband infrastructure.

FCC Media Bureau promotes Holly Saurer to associate chief, names Susan Singer, ex-Wireless Bureau, chief economist ... Covington & Burling hires Andrea Zulli, ex-Norton Rose, to EU competition group as of counsel ... Mimik technology, provider of personalized multi-screen experience for digital content, hires Daniel Veniez, expert in economics and public policy, as executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Comcast hires Mitch Rose, ex-consultant to company and others in industry at Mitch Rose Strategic Consulting, as senior vice president-government affairs, NBCUniversal ... Disney promotes Marcy Lefkovitz to vice president-technology and workflow strategy, ABC broadcast operations and engineering ... American Intellectual Property Law Association hiresLisa Jorgenson, ex-STMicroelectronics, as executive director, effective Nov. 17.

NAB promotes Curtis LeGeyt to senior vice president-public policy, new position ... OpenX Technologies hires include Deborah Roth, ex-Fab, as chief communications officer, new position, and Scott Braley, ex-Facebook’s Atlas, as senior vice president-demand ... NG9-1-1 Institute elects to board for 2014-16 terms: Angel Arocho, Comcast, representing IP-enabled provider position; Mary Boyd, Intrado, and Jim Shepard, 911 Datamaster, members at-large; Alicia Burns, Frontier Communications, large telecom carrier position; and Nneka Ezenwa, Verizon, wireless provider position.

AMC Networks' IFC promotes Christine Lubrano to senior vice president-original programming and hires Maura Madden, ex-IFC and ex-MTV, and Jeff Meyerson, ex-Fox, as vice presidents-original programming ... Spanish Broadcasting System promotes Eric Garcia to revenue chief, radio division, and he continues to manage New York radio station operations as general manager ... Cincinnati Bell adds to board John Eck, Univision Communications ... Silicon Valley Leadership Group adds to board Hank Fore, Comcast California ... Adtran promotes Ronan Kelly to chief technology officer, Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions ... Tremor Video adds to board Michael Todd, Victorious ... Lobbyist registrations: Comcast, Edolphus Towns on behalf of Gray Global Advisors, effective July 1 … Comptel, Alpine Group, effective Aug. 1 … Real-Time Technology Group, Eckert Seamans, effective Aug. 13 ... Pandora, registering Katie Peters on behalf of itself, effective Sept. 3.

FTC names Ashkan Soltani, technology consultant and researcher who has previously worked at the agency, chief technologist, succeeding Latanya Sweeney, returning to Harvard University, where she directs Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab ... Perseus Telecom starts Perseus TMT, targeting telecom carriers, multimedia and technology companies, and names President Wendell Kadunce to run it ...Tremor Video hires Coleen Collins, ex-own consulting firm, as head-people ... Silicon Image hires Khurram Sheikh, ex-JKSFS, as chief strategy and technology officer ... Broadcast Music Inc. names Lauren Branson, ex-Yep Roc Records, director-public relations ... Lobbyist registrations: Amazon, Venable, effective July 8 ... ViTel Net, a telehealth firm, American Defense International, effective Sept. 1 ... Oracle, Venable, effective Sept. 15.

FCC hires Jean Kiddoo, ex-Bingham McCutchen, as Wireless Bureau deputy chief ... Marc Andreessen resigns from eBay board ...Center for Democracy & Technology hires Lisa Hayes, ex-American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, as vice president-program & strategy, and Chris Calabrese, ex-American Civil Liberties Union, as senior policy director ... Pandora hires Steve Bené, ex-Electronic Arts, as general counsel ... Wilson Sonsini hires Margaret Lassack, ex-FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, as of counsel ... SoftBank Group hires Rajeev Misra, ex-Fortress Investment Group, as head-strategic finance, effective Nov. 3.

Rogers hires Nitin Kawale, ex-Cisco Systems Canada, as president, enterprise business unit, effective Dec. 1; Larry Baldachin, interim president of the unit, will be a "key executive" there ... Discovery Communications moves Vice President Sarah Davies to that position in production and development, Discovery Family Channel ... President Barack Obama plans to nominate Michelle Lee, deputy undersecretary and deputy director of the Patent and Trademark Office, as Commerce Department undersecretary for Intellectual Property and PTO director, and Victoria Espinel, BSA/The Software Alliance, as member, Trade Policy and Negotiations Advisory Committee ... Videotron promotes in Strategy & Marketing Section to vice presidents Julie Brault for brand & interactive media, and Bertrand Hébert, marketing-telecom, and moves Vice President Marie Ginette Lepage to that position for marketing-content and broadcasting ... Lobbyist Registrations: Digital Receiver Technology, The Charles Group, effective Aug. 15 ... JSA Health Telepsychiatry, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective Sept. 1 ... Videotron promotes in Strategy & Marketing Section to vice presidents Julie Brault for brand & interactive media, and Bertrand Hébert, marketing-telecom, and moves Vice President Marie Ginette Lepage to that position for marketing-content and broadcasting ... Discovery Communications moves Vice President Sarah Davies to that position in production and development, Discovery Family Channel.

Comcast promotes Peter Dobrow to vice president-communications, NBCUniversal’s Hispanic cable network mun2... Elected to inaugural board of Open Interconnect Consortium: Jong-Deok Choi, executive vice president, Samsung Electronics; Imad Sousou, general manager, Intel Open Source Technology Center; Bernard Shung, general manager-new business development, MediaTek; Kip Compton, chief technology officer, Cisco Video & Collaboration Group ... L-com Global Connectivity, supplier of wired and wireless connectivity products, hires Bill Miller, ex-Nexans, as executive vice president-sales and product development ...Diablo Technologies, developer of technology for data-intensive applications, hires David Ferretti, ex-Skyera, as senior vice president-global sales ... Skkynet Cloud Systems adds to board John Adiletta, Somerset International Group.