John Ryan promoted by Level 3 to chief legal officer, succeeding Thomas Stortz, retiring at year-end … Verizon Wireless names Andrew Davies, ex-Vodafone, chief financial officer … Cynthia Hook, ex-Dell, becomes Comcast senior vice president-general auditor … Rhod Williams, ex-EchoStar Technologies, moves to EchoStar Europe as general manager, European operations … Jennifer Holtz, formerly of e-Copernicus and CTIA, becomes Booz Allen Hamilton associate, broadband policy … Wavestream names John Gray, ex-Advantech, vice president-sales, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia … Lynn Tinsley, ex-Weather Channel, hired by Hallmark Channel as ad sales director for Southeast.
Kyle Dixon, ex-Wilkinson Barker, hired by Time Warner as vice president of public policy …
Mark Rasch, ex-Justice Department, named director of cybersecurity and privacy consulting for CSC’s North American Public Sector business …
Changes at AT&T: Senior Vice President-Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer Dorothy Attwood moves to Disney; Robert Quinn adds title of chief privacy officer; Len Cali will add responsibility for global public policy … Mark Bohannon, ex-Software & Information Industry Association, hired by Red Hat as vice president of corporate affairs and global public policy, starting Oct. 1 … Seth Cooper, ex-American Legislative Exchange Council, becomes research fellow at Free State Foundation … CBS Interactive’s GameSpot names John Davison, ex-IDG GamePro, vice president-programming, games and Metacritic … General Cable new independent directors, expanding board to seven: Chip McClure, ArvinMeritor, and Patrick Prevost, Cabot Corp., who also will be on audit, compensation and corporate governance committees … Richard Kelley promoted by NBC Universal to president and general manager of KNSD San Diego … Daniel Danker, ex-Microsoft, joins BBC Future Media & Technology on Sept. 20 as general manager, programs and on-demand … Westwood One Network Radio Division President Gary Schonfeld leaving to return to AdLarge Media; Westwood One President Rod Sherwood to oversee Network Radio.
New in Frontier Communications’ Washington office: Michael Saperstein, ex-PCIA, to manage federal regulatory activities; Allison Ellis, ex-Ericsson, becomes associate general counsel, compliance and regulatory.
Deon Levingston, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, joins NAB radio board, filling slot vacated earlier by Frank Flores, ex-Spanish Broadcasting System … Tribune promotes Eric Meyrowitz, who ran WDCW-TV Washington, to vice president and general manager of WPIX-TV New York … DigitalGlobe CEO and Chairman Jill Smith to leave company after successor found … John Treloar, ex-Adobe, hired by online video firm Ooyala as managing director for Australia and New Zealand.
Scott Mikuen promoted to Harris Corp. vice president-general counsel, effective Oct. 15, replacing Gene Cavallucci, retiring … Named by Tribune board to special committee to oversee Chapter 11 process: Chairman is Mark Shapiro and members are Jeffrey Berg, Maggie Wilderotter and Frank Wood … Lorna Donohoe promoted by Playboy Enterprises to cross-divisional senior vice president of global strategic marketing, a new position … Correction: Mark Hurd won’t stay on as News Corp. director (CD Sept 1 p10).
Nadia Short, General Dynamics, joins board of National Cyber Security Alliance … Kami Ragsdale, ex-AOL, becomes Invision chief financial officer … Michael Riley promoted at Disney to president of ABC Family … Dominic Fails, ex-Telemundo, hired by Journal Broadcast Group as vice president of sales … Alteva promotes David Cuthbert to CEO … Mark Hard, ex-Hewlett-Packard, won’t be nominated for re-election as News Corp. director … Level 3 Communications names Brian Bonacci, ex-TW Telecom, director of business development for federal markets group … Western Digital names Len Lauer, ex-Qualcomm and Bell Atlantic, to board.
Mary Hentges, ex-PayPal, becomes CBS Interactive chief financial officer … ViewCast names Adrian Giuhat, ex-Nexstar Broadcasting, senior vice president-product development and chief technology officer … Changes at mobile e-mail firm Seven Networks: Michael Luna, ex-AliphCom, becomes chief technology officer; Tamara Steffens, ex-FusionOne, named executive vice president-field operations; David Ratner promoted to chief operating officer … Norman Pattiz retiring from board of Westwood One, to be consultant to company he founded, and be succeeded as chairman by Mark Stone, Gores Group … Steve Carver, ex-Tribune, hired by CBS Radio as senior vice president and market manager for Los Angeles.
RCN executives now that purchase by Abry Partners is completed: Jim Holanda to CEO and Steven Simmons to chairman, both from Choice Cable; Mike Sicoli, ex-chief financial officer, named head of RCN Metro, being separated from rest of company.