FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel names Priscilla Delgado Argeris, ex-Wiley Rein, as legal adviser on wireline and consumer issues, Valery Galasso, ex-office of Vice President Joe Biden, as confidential assistant and special adviser … Disney promotes John Idler to president and general manager of WLS-TV (ABC) Chicago … Verizon New Jersey President Dennis Bone to retire July 6; Jim Gerace, head of government and external affairs for New York and Connecticut region, adds those duties for New Jersey … Journal Communications hires Jason Graham, ex-Brookdale Senior Living, as vice president and corporate controller … Martha Stewart Living hires Casey Bukawyn, ex-Perry Ellis International, as executive vice president of global licensing … Style Media promotes Sarah Weidman to senior vice president of original programming and development, new position … Lobbyist Registrations: Level 3, Breaux Lott Leadership Group, effective April 25 … Viacom cable networks music and entertainment brands names as vice president: Pete Chelala, ex-Weather Channel, for mobile product and sales; and promotes Deborah Schlessinger-Brett for mobile sales.
Wilkinson Barker hires David Oxenford, ex-Davis Wright, as partner … Ciena adds Manuel Medina, Medina Capital Partners, to board.
Joshua Cinelli, former aide to ex-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, hired by Ford Foundation as manager of strategic communications and media relations … Communications consultant Apco Worldwide rehires Mike Tuffin, ex-America’s Health Insurance Plans, as managing director of Washington, D.C., headquarters … GlobeCast promotes Philippe Fort to CEO of Netia, as the unit’s founders Christophe Carniel and Pierre Keiflin depart … F5 Networks elevates Dave Feringa to executive vice president of worldwide sales, replacing Mark Anderson, who resigned.
CableLabs hires Phil McKinney, ex-Hewlett-Packard, as president and CEO, replacing Paul Liao who previously said he’s leaving … Andy Start leaving Harris Corp. to become global government business president at Inmarsat … Michele Woods leaving U.S. Copyright Office as associate register for policy and international affairs for World Intellectual Property Organization, where she’s named director of Copyright Law Division for the Culture and Creative Industries Sector effective June 4 … NTIA Press Secretary Moira Vahey leaving … Lumos Networks names Joseph McCourt, ex-1901 Group, executive vice president and chief revenue officer … Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies adds Carolyn Kilpatrick, ex-U.S. Democratic representative from Michigan, and Freada Kapor Klein, philanthropist, to three-year terms on board of governors … Named to TechAmerica Foundation commission on ‘big data': Steve Mills, IBM; and Steve Lucas, SAP, chairmen; Teresa Carlson, Amazon Web Services; and Bill Perlowitz, Wyle, vice chairmen; other members include Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft; and David Shacochis, CenturyLink’s Savvis … NBCUniversal promotes Alicia Muntzner to vice president-advertising sales for Style Media, new position.
FCC appoints Ronald Brisé, Florida Public Service Commission, to Universal Service Administrative Co. board to represent state telecom regulators, filling vacant position that was occupied by Randy Mitchell of South Carolina … Derek Chang leaving DirecTV as executive vice president of content strategy and development at year’s end, being replaced by Dan York, ex-AT&T, who in early July will become executive vice president of programming and chief content officer.
FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick steps down in mid-June, to be replaced by Deputy General Counsel Sean Lev … Sunrise Telecom board changes: Peter Kamin, 3K Limited Partnership, and Alan Howe, Broadband Initiatives, added, as directors; Henry Huff and Jennifer Walt resign … Open Internet Advisory Committee appointments: Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, chairman; David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, vice chairman; and members including Harvey Anderson, Mozilla; Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures; Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy & Technology; Leslie Daigle, Internet Society; Jessica Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition; Neil Hunt, Netflix; Charles Kalmanek, AT&T; Kevin McElearney, Comcast; Elaine Paul, Disney; Chip Sharp, Cisco; Charles Slocum, Writers Guild of America, West; and Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent.
Changes at FCC: Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel appoints three current agency staffers as interim advisers: Paul Murray, wireless; Joe Cavender, wireline; Holly Sauer, media … Tom Brown, special assistant to Chairman Julius Genachowski, to leave commission … Lobbyist Registrations: MetroPCS Wireless, ML Strategies, effective May 1 … Frontier Communications promotes Gregory Lundberg to vice president of investor relations and assistant treasurer … Univision Radio promotes Cesar Canales to vice president and general manager of its Dallas stations.
Michael Snyder, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, hired by FCC as deputy division chief for Web and print publications at Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau … National League of Cities Executive Director Donald Borut retiring at year’s end … NBCUniversal promotes Susan Malfa to senior vice president of ad sales for Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style Media and Women at NBCU, new position … Martha Stewart Living elects Martha Stewart non-executive chairman, succeeding Charles Koppelman.
Google promotes Rick Whitt to vice president and global head of public policy for Motorola Mobility following acquisition by Google … Neustar names Becky Burr chief privacy officer and deputy general counsel … David Helfgott promoted to president and CEO of Inmarsat Government … Rod Perth, ex-RHP Media, named president and CEO of NAPTE, replacing Rick Feldman who left in April … Spanish Broadcasting System promotes Richard Lom to vice president of SBS Entertainment.
Wireless Communications Association President Fred Campbell leaving association, no replacement named … Mark Powell named vice president of current programming & specials at truTV … Christo Doyle promoted to vice president-executive producer at Discovery Channel … Marc Miller, ex-Nintendo, named senior vice president-content protection, Internet, at the MPAA … David White confirmed as national executive director of newly formed SAG-AFTRA … Felipe Alvarez, ex-Sidera Networks, named to Perseus board … Lobbyist Registrations: LinkedIn, Monument Policy Group, effective April 10.