HTC promotes Amy Wolverton to vice president-government affairs … Time Warner hires Chris Wilson, ex-TechAmerica, as vice president-public policy … Syniverse mobile services company for carriers and ISPs hires Ed Lewis, ex-Belden Partners, as chief strategy officer … Discovery Communications promotes Matthew Kelly to vice president-development and production, Discovery Channel … Lobbying registrations: TechAmerica, Rubin Strategies, effective May 20 … Telecom engineering company MarCel Partners, Turner Pollard Strategies, effective April 17 … Members of 2013 Advisory Council for Free Speech Week include: Chris Dodd, MPAA, chairman; Gordon Smith, NAB; Michael Powell, NCTA; Caroline Little, Newspaper Association of America; Bob Pittman, Clear Channel; Cary Sherman, RIAA; Gary Shapiro, CEA; Walter McCormick, USTelecom.

House Communications Subcommittee Communications Director Debbee Hancock left Friday, no plans disclosed … Discovery Communications promotes Howard Lee to executive vice president-production & development, TLC … ADT Corp. hires Kathleen McLean, ex-FairPoint Communications, as senior vice president-chief information officer … Nexstar moves Albert Gutierrez to vice president/general manager of KTAB-TV Abilene, effective June 3.

News Corp. promotes Bill Dallman to vice president/news director, for Fox Sports 1 network that starts Aug. 17 … Obsidian Analysis homeland and national security firm hires Jason McNamara, ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency, as vice president, overseeing projects for state and local clients … Raycom hires Holly Steuart, ex-Newport Television, as vice president/general manager, WTVM Columbus, Ga., replacing Lee Brantley, retiring effective July 31 … Lobbying registrations: National Alliance of State Broadcast Associations, Capitol Insight, effective May 1 … MPAA and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Center, both Sentinel Worldwide, effective April 25 and May 13 respectively.

CBS Executive Vice President-Planning, Policy and Government Affairs Marty Franks retiring, effective Sept. 30 … Senate confirmed Claire Kelly and Mark Barnett as judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade … Source Photonics hires Doug Wright, ex-United Technologies, as president and CEO, succeeding CEO Near Margalit, named chief product officer, new position at provider of optical communication products for telecom systems and data networks … Neustar hires John Caldwell, ex-National Geographic Society, as vice president-media and new ventures … RLJ Entertainment hires Drew Wilson, ex-Discovery Communications, as chief financial officer, succeeding John Avagliano, who left to pursue other opportunities … Turner Broadcasting System hires Chris Linn, ex-MTV, as truTV president and head of programming … Journal Communications promotes WTVF Nashville President/General Manager Debbie Turner to vice president of the company … Uber hires Andrew Noyes, ex-Facebook and Warren Communications News, to manage communications and be based in San Francisco office, effective June 17.

News Corp. says Mike Darnell, president-alternative entertainment, Fox Broadcasting, decided to leave at end of June … International Datacasting Corp. names Doug Lowther, recently hired from Irdeto as president and CEO, to board … Red Bend Software mobile software device management firm promotes Motoharu Fujimura to country manager for Japan … Lobbying registration: Cyber Secure America Coalition, Vatoca Partners, effective April 16.

Nominations by President Barack Obama sent to Senate: Daniel Sepulveda, ex-aide to then-Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to be deputy assistant secretary of State for international communications and information policy, and U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy; Kara Stein for SEC commissioner term expiring June 5, 2017, replacing Elisse Walter, whose term expired; and also to be on SEC Michael Piwowar for term expiring June 5, 2018, replacing Troy Paredes, term expiring … Western Telecommunications Alliance hires Noah Cherry, ex-St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson, as director-government affairs, with focus on video regulation and cybersecurity, effective June 3 … Khosla Ventures hires Benjamin Ling, ex-Badoo, to be member of the venture capital firm’s investment staff … New directors for forthcoming split-up News Corp. are, for the 21st Century Fox broadcast and cable company: Delphine Arnault, Christian Dior; Jacques Nasser, One Equity Partners; Robert Silberman, Strayer Education; and for new News Corp. publishing company: John Elkann, Exor; Ana Paula Pessoa, Brunswick Group; Masroor Siddiqui, Naya Management; and Robert Thomson, to be CEO of that company … Association of Cable Communicators board elections include: Anthony Surratt, Time Warner Cable, as president; Annie Howell, Crown Media, first vice president-membership; Catherine Frymark, Discovery Communications, second vice president-programs; Tom Larsen, Mediacom, secretary; and Brian Dietz, NCTA, treasurer.

Tribune Co. hires Jimmy de Castro, ex-Content Factory, as president/general manager, WGN(AM) Chicago, effective June 3 … Viacom hires Dion Vlachos, ex-Disney, as senior vice president-retail sales and marketing, Nickelodeon, replacing Ron Johnson, recently promoted to executive vice president-Nickelodeon and Viacom consumer products, Viacom International Media Networks … Hearst Television promotes Charles Wolfertz to president/general manager of WTAE-TV Pittsburgh effective June 1, replacing Michael Hayes, previously elevated (CD May 20 p16) … FCC names Betsy Wergin, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, to Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations, filling slot recently vacated by Phil Montgomery, Wisconsin Public Service Commission … Lobbying registrations: Telecom service provider Innovative Companies, Bingham McCutchen, effective May 20 … Intel, Peck Madigan Jones, effective April 8.

Perkins Coie hires Kimberly Reindl, ex-Akin Gump, as senior counsel in Washington office, where she will advise new-media clients on FCC issues … Tribune Co. hires Shashi Seth, ex-Yahoo, as president of newly formed unit Tribune Digital Ventures … Time Warner Cable promotes Deborah Picciolo to senior vice president-technical operations, residential … Slacker streaming music service hires John Hayase, ex-Elastic Path, as chief product officer … Comcast’s NBC Owned Television Stations promotes Jeff Morris to senior vice president-operations and technology … SQAD TV and radio digital cost-analysis firm promotes Samantha Marlowe to vice president-regional sales … Mformation Software Technologies hires Kevin Wood, ex-Airwide Solutions, as president and CEO, succeeding Todd DeLaughter, who will be a strategic adviser to the mobility management solution provider … Soonr enterprise mobile collaboration service provider hires: Victoria Grey, ex-Nexsan, as chief marketing officer, and Brent Maxwell, formerly of Hewlett-Packard, as vice president-business development … New to board of Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Educational Foundation are: Matt Bond, NBCUniversal; Coleman Breland, Turner Broadcasting System; and Bill Goetz, Time Warner Cable … Lobbying registration: ZTE, Podesta Group, effective April 4.

U.S. Cellular promotes Grant Spellmeyer to vice president-federal affairs and public policy … Telemundo Media hires David Alvarado, ex-EMI Music/Capitol Latin, as vice president-entertainment publicity … Philip Christopher, ex-Audiovox and UTStarcom, says he will start American Network Solutions, a consulting firm to the telecom industry of which he'll be CEO and president … CTIA adds to board for rest of year as small carrier representatives: Conrad Hunter, nTelos Wireless, and Richard Ruhl, Pioneer Cellular … Among directors of new machine-to-machine association International M2M Council are: Patrick Shay, Orbcomm; Juergen Hase, Deutsche Telekom; and Chris Baker, Oracle.

Comcast’s NBCUniversal hires Deborah Turness, ex-ITV News, as president, NBC News, effective Aug. 5 … Tellabs Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Andrew Szafran resigns for personal reasons unrelated to the company’s operations, financial reporting or business outlook, replaced as CFO on acting basis by Tom Minichiello, vice president-finance and chief accounting officer … Cablevision hires Frank Mansour, ex-FreshDirect, as executive vice president-customer service, new position … Firetide wireless mesh networking firm hires John McCool, ex-Cisco, as president and CEO.