Angie Kronenberg leaving office of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, where she was wireline legal adviser, replaced on acting basis by Rebekah Goodheart, who most recently was deputy director of the agency’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force and associate Wireline Bureau chief … Level 3 hires Joe Cavender, ex-Wireline Bureau, as vice president-federal regulatory affairs … Michael McAlone, ex-Telemundo, rejoins Univision Communications as vice president-network sales for Southwest … MovieLabs hires John Carney, ex-Comcast, as president and CEO … Digital Promise, nonprofit on technology and education authorized by Congress, names Karen Cator, ex-U.S. Department of Education, president and CEO.
Copyright Office promotes Robert Kasunic to associate register-copyrights, and director-registration policy and practice … Orbcomm hires Craig Montgomery, ex-CMG Partners, as senior vice president-marketing … Aternity application monitoring firm hires as vice presidents, both ex-Tibco: Rich Perry for worldwide sales, and Edward Tobin for client services … Open Networking Foundation hires Rick Bauer, ex-Storage Networking Industry Association and CompTIA, as technical program manager.
TVGN hires Brad Schwartz, ex-MSG Media, as president-entertainment and media, as TVGN is now owned by CBS Corp. and Lionsgate … Viacom hires Steve Agase, ex-NBCUniversal, as senior vice president-Music & Entertainment Ad Sales, West Coast, including digital operations … Perseus Telecom hires Lorenz Voss, ex-Trading Technologies International, as executive vice president-global procurement and strategy … ExteNet Systems distributed networks firm hires Andrew Chavez, ex-Nokia Systems Networks, as senior vice president-sales and marketing.
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Matthew Armstrong, strategist on public diplomacy, to become a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors … Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing promotes Mark Snow to senior vice president and general manager-consumer marketing and insights, and Deepa Venkataraman to senior director-integrated marketing … PCN Technology, maker of Internet Protocol products for copper infrastructure, hires Dave Karpenske, ex-JDS Uniphase, as chief operating officer … Covington & Burling hires Gina Vetere, ex-U.S. Chamber’s Global Intellectual Property Center, as special counsel-international trade, public policy and government affairs practices … Univision Communications hires Gustavo Ordóñez, ex-A&E Ole Networks Latin America, as senior vice president-programming research … Lobbying registrations: Both IBM and Wildcat Communications, Burton Kamins Advocacy, effective March 1 … For Discovery Communications, Disney and Viacom, Ernst & Young, effective March 1.
Level 3 promotes President Jeff Storey to also be CEO and nominates him to become a director, succeeding James Crowe, who had planned to leave (CD March 8 p17) and won’t seek re-election to board … Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei named Sirius XM chairman, replacing Eddy Hartenstein … Computer Services mobile and Internet payment company hires Stuart McLellan, ex-BankVue, as vice president-sales, Eastern region.
Duncan Burns, ex-Hill and Knowlton, named ICANN vice president-global communications … Univision Communications advances Ken Wilkey to senior vice president-engineering and technical operations, Univision Television Group … Brandenburg Life Foundation Chairman David Brandenburg named ViewCast chairman, succeeding George Platt, who remains on board … Jessica Murphy promoted to Nickelodeon Group vice president-strategic property planning and marketing … Brenda Budzynski, ex-Alcatel-Lucent, named Spectralink vice president-global R&D … Barry McCarthy, Technology Crossover Ventures partner, won’t seek re-election to Pandora board … Lobbyist registrations: TracFone Wireless, self registration, effective March 31 … Telesat, Shockey Scofield Solutions, effective April 1.
Advanced at Cablevision Systems: Kristin Dolan to president of optimum services; Wilt Hildenbrand to senior advisor-customer care, technology and networks; Brian Sweeney to senior executive vice president-strategy, a new post … Andrew Strauser promoted to vice president, talent development & casting for TLC.
CoxReps names Gene Pizzolato, ex-Gannett, president of Cox Cross Media and Cox Digital Solutions divisions … Bert Quesada, ex-Intelsat, joins GlobeCast Americas as director-contribution services; Ted Carr, ex-Evertz Microsystems, named an account manager for North America; Armando Parra, ex-Claxson Networks, named account manager for Latin America … Advanced at Warren Communications News: Jonathan Make to managing editor; Howard Buskirk and Paul Gluckman to executive senior editors.
Crown Media promotes Amy Jo Wayne to senior vice president-national ad sales … Nexstar hires Roger Hess, ex-WTNH New Haven, Conn., as vice president/general manager, WFFF-TV Burlington, Vt., and overseeing the company’s joint operating agreement with Mission Broadcasting for WVNY Burlington.
New America Foundation hires board member Anne-Marie Slaughter, ex-Princeton University and U.S. State Department, as president, effective Sept. 1, replacing Steve Coll, who as planned (CD June 26 p18) has stepped down, effective March 31, and Rachel White, executive vice president and director-external relations, is interim president … International Datacasting Corp. hires Doug Lowther, ex-Irdeto, as CEO, effective last week of May … Guavus, big data analytics for communication service providers firm, hires Rob Chimsky, ex-inCode and Nextel, as vice president-insights, new position … DukeNet Communications promotes David Herran to vice president of expanded network architecture and technology planning team … Entravision hires Jim Lyke, ex-Cumulus Media, as vice president-network sales, Entravision Solutions.