VoIP company Aptela promotes Douglas Strahan to president and CEO, succeeding Larry Barker, named chairman … Eileen Nelson, ex-3Com, hired by Openwave as senior vice president of human resources …

Former Los Angeles attorney Edith Ramirez sworn in as an FTC commissioner …

FairPoint Communications Chief Financial Officer Alfred Giammarino resigned Wednesday, citing personal reasons; Lisa Hood, senior vice president and controller, named interim CFO … Thomas Murray, ex-Vermont Telecom Authority, rejoins TDS Telecom as manager, state government affairs … Tennessee Regulatory Authority director Eddie Roberson to head the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Subcommittee on Education and Research.

Fox Networks Group moves David Lyle to President of Fox Look, newly formed to license and produce unscripted shows from Fox Broadcasting and Fox Cable Networks; Ravi Ahuja promoted by networks group to executive vice president of business operations and development … Don Paige, ex-Toly Digital Networks, hired by Entone as director of sales for North America southeastern region … Lee Levine of Levine Sullivan and Cliff Sloan of Skadden Arps, join Media Institute’s First Amendment advisory council …

Insight Communications promotes Diego Jaramillo to director of operational reporting, hires Ben Halliwell as director of strategic marketing … Jeffrey Belk, ICT168 Capital, elected to board of wireless technology company InterDigital …

Todd Brecher, ex-Time Warner Cable, named Cablevision senior vice president, associate general counsel of business affairs …

Jeff Lindsay, ex-Sanford Bernstein, hired as vice president of strategy and operations at AOL, where he had previously worked … Robert Feierbach, ex-Eutelsat, hired by Hughes Network Systems as vice president of sales and marketing for the international division … Stephen Hawthornthwaite, ex-GCA Savvian Advisors, hired by InfoSpace as vice president of corporate development …

Anand Akundi, Telcordia, joins FCC’s NG911 working group …

New NAB board members, effective in June: Frank Flores, Spanish Broadcasting System; Joel Oxley, Citadel; Mike Grimsley, Regent; John Beck, Emmis; Roger Utnehmer, Nicolet; Eric Brown, KVRN(AM); Ben Downs, Bryan Broadcasting; Ron Davis, KBOW(AM); Joe Schwartz, Cherry Creek Radio; Don Benson, Lincoln Financial; David Barrett, Hearst; Lynn Beall, Gannett; Marci Burdick, Schurz; Chris Cornelius, Barrington; Sandy Schwartz, Cox; Doreen Wade, Freedom Broadcasting …

Cary Broussard, ex-Wyndham Hotel Group, becomes president of Alliance for Women in Media on April 5 … Jupiter Telecommunications shareholders approve new board members, including Tomoyuki Moriizumi, CEO; Tomoya Aoki, chief financial officer; and 12 others …