Milbank Tweed hires Phillip Spector, ex-Intelsat, as of counsel, space/satellite practice … Bloomberg hires Justin Smith, ex-Atlantic Media, as CEO, Bloomberg Media Group, effective Sept. 16, as CEO Andrew Lack becomes chairman of the group that includes radio, TV and digital businesses … Emulex hires Perry Mulligan, ex-QLogic, as senior vice president-operations … Extreme Networks hires Ed Carney, ex-Cisco, as executive vice president-product and customer success … Southern California Broadcasters Association names Amber Perry, KRTH(FM) Los Angeles, chairwoman of General Sales Managers Council for Southern California radio members … Unwired Planet names board member Phil Vachon chairman, replacing Peter Feld, who remains on the board, which also adds Greg Landis, TerraPower, replacing Robin Abrams, resigned.

Julie Bauer, ex-Best Buy, named president of the Panasonic Consumer Electronics sales division, a post vacant since February when Kitajima Shiro returned to Japan … Gilbert Amelio to retire from AT&T’s board to devote more attention to professional and personal activities.

Senate confirms Tony West as Department of Justice associate attorney general, after he held that title on acting basis … Time Warner Cable Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt to retire at year’s end, remain on board, and be succeeded by Robert Marcus, being promoted and also elected to board … National Security Network Executive Director Heather Hurlburt to step down Sept. 30, continue in advisory role; organization searching for replacement … Viacom promotes Pamela Kaufman to chief marketing officer and president, consumer products-Nickelodeon … Clear Channel hires Kevin Mackall, ex-consultant to company and executive at Viacom’s MTV, as senior vice president-visual branding, working with stations and iHeartRadio … AMC Networks hires Gustavo Lopez, ex-Discovery Communications, as vice president-global distribution and business development for Latin America, new position … International Datacasting Corp. elects as new director Chris Van Staveren, Chrysalis4 Investments.

Consumers International names Amanda Long, executive at U.K. co-operatives, director general effective in January, following retirement of Helen McCallum … Calient Technologies optical circuit switching technology company hires Jag Setlur, ex-July Systems, as chief financial officer … FreedomPay payment systems company hires Rodney Bowen-Wright, ex-Microsoft, as chief business development officer … IDC Financial Insights hires James Wester, ex-Mobile Payments Today, to lead Worldwide Payment Strategies practice … National Emergency Number Association names Lisa Hoffmann, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, as Western regional director on NENA’s executive board, and Jim Shepard, 911 Datamaster, co-chairman of NENA’s Development Steering Council … Lobbying registrations: Gila River Telecommunications, Akin Gump, effective May 23 … TechNet, Bay Bridge Strategies, effective June 5 … BlackBerry, Comcast, NCTA, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, Capitol Counsel, effective July 1 … Network Designs cybersecurity company, Dentons US, effective June 1.

Acision mobile messaging firm hires Adolfo Hernandez, formerly at Alcatel-Lucent, as CEO, succeeding Jorgen Nilsson, who recently stepped down, effective Aug. 19 … Infonetics Research hires Clifford Grossner, formerly of Alcatel-Lucent, as directing analyst-data center and cloud.

Davis Wright hires Wendy Kearns, ex-own boutique technology firm, as partner, technology transactional and mergers and acquisition practice in Seattle … Time Warner Inc. promotes Howard Averill to chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, succeeding John Martin, previously promoted to CEO, Turner Broadcasting System (CD July 18 p 16) … Lobbying registrations: Simulmedia, Balch & Bingham, effective June 3 … Stop Patent Abuse Now, Venable, effective June 14.

Northrop Grumman promotes Carol Erikson to vice president-engineering, Space Systems business … Texas Instruments elects Ron Kirk, ex-U.S. Trade Representative who now is at Gibson Dunn, to board, effective Sept. 19 … Lobbying registrations: Twenty-First Century Fox, Quinn Gillespie & Associates, effective April 1 … Sypris Electronics, Washington Alliance Group, effective April 30 … Arris Group, Wiley Rein, effective June 21 … Time Warner Cable, Capitol Counsel, effective July 1.

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board hires Sharon Bradford Franklin, Constitution Project, as executive director, effective in August or September … Benton Foundation names Adrianne Benton Furniss, who has been on its boards, executive director, replacing Cecilia Garcia, who becomes senior adviser, and promotes Amina Fazlullah to director-policy … Merchant Customer Exchange mobile payment organization hires Dekkers Davidson, ex-Barclaycard US, as CEO … GfK promotes Florian Kahlert to managing director of U.S. media research firm GfK MRI, effective Aug. 1 … Viacom’s Nickelodeon promotes Amy Hyland to executive vice president-ad sales, strategy and planning, and Jeff Imberman to senior vice president-ad sales, Eastern region, and hires Justin Nesci, ex-J/T/N Advisors, to return to company as senior vice president-digital ad sales … Lobbying registrations: Cisco, Forbes-Tate, effective July 10 … Samsung Electronics, self registration, effective April 1.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., joins Senate Commerce Committee, as expected (CD July 17 p14), and hires Joey Wender, his legislative director when Markey was a member of the House, to his Senate staff … Time Warner Inc. promotes John Martin to CEO, Turner Broadcasting System, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Phil Kent, who will be chairman for a transition period next year … Viacom promotes to Nickelodeon Group senior vice presidents Matthew Duntemann for brand design, Pete Johnson, creative advertising, and Eric Squires, creative operations … Tollgrade Communications hires Kimberly Getgen, ex-Echelon Corp., as vice president-corporate marketing … Rogers Corp. consumer electronics and telecom infrastructure company adds Ganesh Moorthy, Microchip Technology, to board … Lobbying registrations: Boomerang Wireless and Telrite Corp., Kelley Drye, effective June 1 … Simulmedia, Balch & Bingham, effective June 3 … TwinLogic Strategies (on behalf of Sprint), Moore Consulting, effective June 15 … Big Easy Studios, Courson Nickel, effective July 1.

NBCUniversal hires Kimberley Harris, ex-Davis Polk, as executive vice president-general counsel, succeeding Rick Cotton, who had said he planned to step down as general counsel and now becomes senior counselor-IP protection, effective Sept. 3 … MPAA hires Shanna Winters, ex-House Foreign Relations Committee Democratic chief counsel, as senior vice president-global policy, new position … Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., hires Aaron Keyak, ex-National Jewish Democratic Council, as communications director, replacing Ilan Kayatsky, now at Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund … National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications President-CEO Nicol Turner-Lee resigns, effective July 31 … Tribune Co. hires Murray McQueen, ex-Channel West Group, as president-real estate, new position … bMobilized website-to-mobile content conversion firm hires Mark Caron, ex-consultant, as CEO, replacing Ben Seslija, staying with company and moving to Europe to focus on strategic partnerships … Named to Broadcasters Foundation of America board are: Brian Cobb, CobbCorp; Bill Hoffman, Cox Media Group; Brian Lawlor, E.W. Scripps TV Station Group; and Dan Mason, CBS Radio … Added to board of software-defined cloud networking firm Arista Networks are Charles Giancarlo, Silver Lake, and Ann Mather, also on boards of Netflix and MGM.