Clear Channel hires Will Leaverton, ex-Bill Thompson’s New York City mayoral campaign, and Brice Kornegay, ex-BK Strategies, as vice presidents-political strategy, newly created positions in Washington office … Hulu hires board member Mike Hopkins, ex-21st Century Fox, as CEO; acting CEO Andy Forssell leaving company … Hearst Corp. names Neeraj Khemlani and George Kliavkoff co-presidents, Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, including managing digital mailbox service, and they continue in current jobs with Kliavkoff overseeing Hearst Ventures and Khemlani heading Digital Studios … Signalhorn satellite company hires Richard Minter, ex-SES Government Solutions, as chief operating officer.
Qualcomm Vice Chairman Steve Altman to retire, effective Jan. 3, remains strategic consultant to the company … Time Warner Cable hires Jeffrey Painting, ex-CenturyLink, as senior vice president and chief sales officer, Business Services … LIN Media hires Helen Swenson, ex-Weather Channel, as president and general manager, WIAT Birmingham, Ala.
New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute hires as policy director Kevin Bankston, leaving Center for Democracy & Technology’s Free Expression Project; CDT promotes Emma Llansó to replace Bankston as Free Expression Project director … Glen Echo Group hires Ellen Satterwhite, formerly of Gig.U, as director … Benton Foundation hires Rebecca Ellis, writer and “content strategist,” as writing associate, Headlines service, where Kevin Taglang promoted to executive editor; foundation adds Robert Cohen, media management consultant, to board … Comcast’s thePlatform names as vice presidents John Frankovich, ex-Vortex Consulting Partners, for consulting services, and promotes Chris Drake for business development … CenturyLink’s Savvis hires Ash Mathur, ex-information technology consultant, as regional vice president and country manager, Canadian operations.
Angela Ahrendts, Burberry CEO, to join Apple in the spring as senior vice president-retail and online stores, new position … CBS hires Jonathan Sarrow, ex-Fox Networks, as senior vice president-television networks distribution … DirecTV hires Robert Thun, ex-Univision, as senior vice president-content and programming … Transaction Network Services hires Lisa Shipley, ex-First Data, as head-global strategy, payments division, new position … RingCentral hires Walt Weisner, ex-Good Technology, as senior vice president-global customer care … Radio One’s Blue Chip Broadcasting hires John Lewis, ex-Cumulus Broadcasting, as vice president and general manager, Cincinnati radio stations.
Ken Klein resigns as president of Wind River, connected systems software firm owned by Intel, remains on board; Chief Operating Officer Barry Mainz to succeed him.
Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing hires John Lansing, who recently retired from Scripps Networks, as president and CEO, as Char Beales, who has said she was retiring, leaves at year’s end … Globecast names Michele Gosetti interim CEO, Globecast Americas, following departure of Lisa Coelho; Gosetti remains the unit’s chief financial officer … Cox Communications promotes Vonya Alleyne to market vice president, Roanoke, Va., operations, replacing Kim Stanley Henderson, leaving cable operator to spend more time with family, and promotes Margaret-Hunter Wade to public affairs manager … Charter Communications hires Justin Venech, ex-Time Warner Cable, as vice president-communications … Spanish Broadcasting System names Bill Shadorf, ex-Univision Radio, vice president-corporate sales and West Coast market manager … InvenSense, supplier of system-on-chip devices for smartphones and other products, hires Adam Tachner, ex-Qualcomm, as vice president and general counsel.
Discovery Communications promotes Kevin Bennett to general manager-Investigation Discovery and Military Channel, and executive vice president-programming for those networks and Destination America … Time Warner hires Thom Hinkle, ex-Carousel Television, as vice president of comedy, TBS … Lobbyist registrations: Time Warner Cable, Dentons US, effective Aug 20.
Global Security & Intelligence Strategies hires Paul Benda, ex-Department of Homeland Security, as partner and chief technology officer of security consulting firm … Sorenson Media hires Marcus Liassides, ex-Interactive Media Holdings, as president and CEO … FirstLight Fiber hires Kurt Van Wagenen, ex-FiberTower, as president and CEO, and he will join board of company that used to be called Tech Valley Communications, succeeding Kevin O'Connor retiring, who remains a director and focuses on mergers and acquisitions … AirTight Networks provider of cloud-managed Wi-Fi products hires Steven Glapa, ex-Ruckus Wireless, as chief marketing officer.
President Barack Obama will nominate Kelly Welsh, Northern Trust Corp., as Department of Commerce general counsel … Duane Morris hires from Woodcock Washburn David Wolfsohn and Aleksander Goranin as partners in Intellectual Property Litigation practice in Philadelphia office … Clear Channel hires Steven Macri, ex-LogicSource, as chief financial officer … Harris Broadcast hires Pablo Gargiulo, formerly of Xtera Communications, as president-global sales, names sales executives to head regions including Chris Ziemer, North America; Mathias Eckert, Europe, Middle East and Africa; and, for Asia, Joe Khodeir and JiShun Mei … Fusion, new TV and digital network joint venture of Disney and Univision Communications, names Isaac Lee, who remains at Univision News, as CEO … Christopher Rutherford, ex-Homedics, hired by Wilson Electronics as vice president-sales and marketing; Jeffrey Gudewicz, ex-RF Micro Devices, named director-business development and product line management … Qualcomm elects Clark Randt, ex-U.S. ambassador to China, to board … Westell board elects Thomas Gruenwald, ex-Tellabs, a director.
Covington & Burling hires Roger Zakheim, ex-U.S. House Armed Services Committee as general counsel, as of counsel to work in global public policy and government affairs and defense, homeland and national security practices, effective Nov. 4 … Software & Information Industry Association hires Heather Cejovic, ex-Computer Fulfillment, as director-sponsorships and recruitment.