Todd Bertoson, ex-Senate Commerce Committee, hired by SNR Denton as senior managing director-public policy and regulation practice … MPAA promotions: Named senior vice president and associate general counsel are Linda Kinney in Washington office and Dan Robbins in Los Angeles office, where Karen Thorland becomes senior vice president and global content protection counsel and Kelly McMahon is named vice president and corporate counsel; Ben Sheffner promoted to vice president of legal affairs, moving to Washington office … Dish Network names James Moorhead, ex-Procter & Gamble, chief marketing officer … Samsung Electronics America hires Tod Pike, ex-Canon USA, as senior vice president responsible for Enterprise Business division.
Video network company IneoQuest Technologies hires Rick Ford, ex-BigBand, as senior vice president-worldwide sales … Cable maker Atlona hires Robert Colaizzi as chief financial officer … National Cable Television Cooperative changes: Judy Meyka, ex-consultant, hired as executive vice president-programming; Chief Financial Officer Corey McCarthy adds title of senior vice president for business development, new position; Frank Hughes named senior vice president of member services; Jeff Nourse, senior vice president of legal affairs, adds responsibility for regulatory oversight … Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing promotes Ken Leonardo to vice president-marketing.
CEA promotes Laurie Lutz to vice president, CES operations … Neustar adds Mark Greene, Fair Isaac Corp., to board … Lobbyist Registrations: Motorola Mobility, OB-C Group, effective March 1.
FCC names William Levis, Colorado consumer counsel, to USF Federal-State Joint Board, replacing Simon ffitch, state of Washington … Alliance for Women in Media new directors: Cyndee Everman, Time Warner Cable; Janet Noll, RFD-TV; Christine Travaglini, Christal Radio, Nicol Turner-Lee, NAMIC.
Changes on Level 3’s board: Steven Clontz, ex-Global Crossing until it was acquired last year by Level 3, added, replacing Lee Theng Kiat, Temasek Holdings; joining is Kevin Chilton, ex-U.S. Air Force … Charles Stewart, ex-office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., joins office of Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., as communications director.
Charter names Jonathan Hargis executive vice president and chief marketing officer … Kunimasa Suzuki appointed president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications … Julian Lighton named Neustar senior vice president of strategy and corporate development.
Senate Judiciary spokeswoman Erica Chabot named legislative director to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. … Ken Kraft joins Cox Business as vice president-marketing … Jonathan Hargis, ex-Cablevision, will join Charter Communications April 9 as executive vice president and chief marketing officer … Lobbyist Registrations: Time Warner Cable, Iverson Government Relations, effective March 1.
New members of NAB board: Jose Valle, Univision Radio; Pete Booker, Delmarva Broadcasting Company; Dick Lewis, Clear Channel Media & Entertainment; Mary Quass, NRG Media … WE tv names Lauren Gellert senior vice president-original production & development … Jill Lesser appointed executive director of the Center for Copyright Information.
Lobbyist Registrations: DirecTV, Jackson Consulting, effective March 1 … Broadcom, Capitol Tax Partners, effective March 15.
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, promotes Richard Russell to committee’s minority staff director … New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative names James Vasile director of open Internet tools project … Council for Research Excellence audience measurement group funded by Nielsen adds as members Jeffrey Graham, Google; Judy Vogel, Media Storm; and Tom Ziangas, AMC Networks … Pillsbury law firm’s Washington office hires communications lawyers from Dickstein Shapiro: Lew Paper, partner; Andrew Kersting, counsel.