Communications Personals
New FTC Chairman Joseph Simons names senior staff: Cathy MacFarlane is director, Office of Public Affairs, a job she had 2001-03; Tara Isa Koslov named interim chief of staff, she recently moved from acting director, Office of Policy Planning (see the May 1 personals section of this publication); Randolph Tritell continues as director, Office of International Affairs; Jeanne Bumpus remains director, Office of Congressional Relations; David Robbins stays executive director; Donald Clark continues as secretary; and Kevin Williams still is director, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Workplace Inclusion ... New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigns after assault allegations he denies; New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood named acting AG.
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University of Texas-Austin/Moody College hire Patti Smith, recently retired as president-general manager of KVUE Austin, as interim executive director, KUT(FM) Austin and KUTX (FM) Leander; outgoing Director-General Manager Stewart Vanderwilt's last day is June 15; he was hired as Colorado Public Radio president, succeeding Max Wycisk, retiring effective June 30 ... Maxar Technologies' SSL names Adam Marks, ex-Thales Group, chief strategy officer and from GeoNeo Mark Sarojak vice president-commercial earth observation ... Comcast NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group hires Luis Roldan, who started his broadcast career at Telemundo Network and last worked at AmericaTeVe/MundoFox, as president-general manager, WTMO-CD Orlando.
Up TV promotes Philip Manwaring to chief financial officer-chief technology officer, Reta Peery to chief administrative and operations officer and Becky Courson to vice president-controller ... Viacom adds from Droga5 Ramon Jimenez as senior vice president-insights and strategy, MTV, VH1 and Logo, new post ... Martello, network performance provider, names Erin Crowe, ex-Senators Sports & Entertainment, chief financial officer ... CMC Networks taps Jatinder Sispal, ex-Telstra, as executive vice president-global sales.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee OKs nomination of Christopher Krebs to be undersecretary-National Protection and Programs, Department of Homeland Security, replacing George Foresman resigned ... Perform Group sports media company appoints John Skipper, ex-ESPN, executive chairman; founder Simon Denyer continues as CEO ... Marvell names to board Bethany Mayer, former president-CEO of Ixia, and Donna Morris, Adobe; Directors Gerri Elliott, recently hired by Cisco as chief sales and marketing officer, and Peter Feld won't seek re-election at annual meeting June 28 ... Blue Sky Network adds ex-NASA astronaut Steven Smith to the board ... Analog Devices names fellows Bob Reay, Leonard Shtargot, Jesper Steensgaard and Sam Zhang ... BrightLink names Rob Chen, ex-CEB, strategic adviser to the board.