Retiring is Brooke Johnson, president of Scripps Networks Interactive’s food lifestyle brands; will consult for the company through next year ... Univision adds to Leonardo Ruiz's duties, named vice president-general manager, KUTH Provo, Utah, and he remains general manager of Univision stations in Bakersfield, California ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, starting a Global Customer Service team, promotes DeDe Burns to vice president-global customer services, new position ... TA Associates, private equity firm, hires as vice presidents working on areas including technology, and some returning to the firm after graduate school, Amara Suebsaeng, Alex Melamud, John DiCola, ex-Hellman & Friedman, and Max Cancre ... Westell Technologies hires Brian Brouillette, formerly of Ixia, as senior vice president-intelligent site management and worldwide services ... LifeLock hires Marco Wirasinghe, ex-Yahoo, as vice president-consumer applications.
Wiley Rein's McBee Strategic Consulting hires Mark Duffy, ex-Qorvis MSLGroup, as manager, communications practice, expanding international practice ... ABRY Partners hires Fadi Chehadé as senior adviser-digital strategy, starting after he leaves ICANN ... Parkmobile, mobile parking payments firm, names Jon Ziglar, ex-Ceridian HCM, CEO, succeeding Cherie Fuzzell, leaving to pursue other opportunities ... Northrop Grumman promotes Robert Fleming to vice president-cyber, unattended systems and division strategy, land and self-protection systems division ... Time Warner promotes Priya Dogra to senior vice president-mergers and acquisitions, leading M&A group.
Ropes & Gray hires Heather Egan Sussman and Rohan Massey, both ex-McDermott Will, as partners, privacy & data security practice, running that practice with Doug Meal ... Akamai names Ash Kulkarni, ex-Informatica, senior vice president-general manager, Web Experience Division ... Merit Network names Joseph Sawasky, Wayne State University chief information officer, president-CEO, effective Aug. 31 ... AMC Networks hires Stephanie Yates, ex-TV One, as vice president-research and insights, WE tv ... Univision Local Media promotes Sabina Widmann-Hernandez to vice president, general manager and director-sales, Univision stations in San Diego.
Broadcasting Board of Governors names John Lansing, leaving Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, CEO and director, effective in September; André Mendes had been BBG interim CEO and will remain at BBG in leadership role in global operations; and CTAM names Anne Cowan, senior vice president-communications and marketing, acting CEO ... Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network hires Shripriya Mahesh, ex-First Look Media, as partner, on the leadership team guiding the organization and she will oversee Omidyar Network's global Consumer Internet & Mobile initiative ... GTT Communications promotes Layne Levine to chief revenue officer.
Shenandoah Telecommunications, preparing for proposed purchase of nTelos (see 1508110067), promotes to senior vice presidents William Pirtle for marketing and sales, Thomas Whitaker, operations, and Edward McKay, engineering and network planning ... Fiber network provider SiFi Networks names David Thomas, ex-BT, head-network operations ... Interface Security Systems promotes Chuck Moeling to chief marketing officer.
ZenithOptimedia hires Joe Reinstein, ex-Obama White House, as executive vice president-integrated services, Performics, new position ... In reorganization of Discovery Communications U.S. networks: Rich Ross promoted to group president, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel; Discovery Life Channel integrated into TLC team, reporting to Executive Vice President-General Manager Nancy Daniels; Jane Latman, general manager, Discovery Life Channel, named general manager, American Heroes Channel in addition to senior vice president-development, Investigation Discovery; Bob Scanlon moves to general manager, Velocity and automotive content; and Carolina Lightcap, head-content, Discovery Latin America and U.S. Hispanic Group, coordinates leadership of global family brands and kids content strategy ... SeaChange names to new positions as senior vice presidents Paul Crann, ex-BTI Systems, for product management and solutions architecture, and Mitchell Chun promoted for business development ... Lobbyist registration: Starz Entertainment, Venable, effective July 1.
National Treasury Employees Union votes to promote Tony Reardon to president, succeeding Colleen Kelley, retiring (see 1503050043) ... Crown Media hires Brenda Lowry, ex-NBCUniversal, as vice president-network program publicity ... AMC Networks hires Denielle Webb, ex-consultant to the programmer, as vice president-public relations and marketing, SundanceTV; Marnie Black promoted to executive vice president-public relations, AMC and SundanceTV ... Nexstar hires Kevin Harlan, ex-Huntington Broadcast Management Group, returning to company as vice president-general manager, WMBD-TV Peoria, Illinois, and associated digital services, and he oversees Nexstar’s relationship with Cunningham Broadcasting’s WYZZ-TV Bloomington, Illinois, through an outsourcing agreement ... Viacom starts new multiplatform Velocity Products, which in expanded roles Elizabeth Herbst-Brady helps run as executive vice president-ad sales strategy and products, and Sarah Iooss is named senior vice president of the new group, where Deborah Brett is vice president ... IEEE names to lead the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group, as chairman, and Ulf Lindqvist, SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory, as vice chairman.
Univision Communications hires Rainey Mancini, ex-Time Warner Cable, as senior vice president-finance/head, investor relations ... Media General hires Tony Optican, ex-Dko Entertainment, as head-programming, new position ... As part of Google's renaming itself Alphabet and making the search engine a unit (see 1508100066), SEC filing says that Ruth Porat will become senior vice president-chief financial officer and remain Google subsidiary CFO, David Drummond moves to senior vice president-corporate development, chief legal officer and secretary of Alphabet, and Google Chief Business Officer Omid Kordestani to adviser to Alphabet and Google.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's office names Johanna Thomas, ex-Wireless Bureau, legal adviser, working on wireless, international and public safety issues, and promotes Travis Litman to senior legal adviser, working on wireline and consumer issues ... NATPE/Content First hires JP Bommel, ex-Barton Creek International, as managing director and chief operating officer, effective next month ... Graham Media hires Heidi Schmid Whiting, ex-Cinnamon Mueller, as vice president-general counsel, succeeding John Ronayne, retiring from that role and becoming vice president-senior counsel ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers hires Terry Maloney, ex-Entertainment Promotions, as vice president-marketing and business development.
Tremor Video hires John Rego, ex-Virgin Galactic, as chief financial officer, effective Sept. 8 ... United Online hires Mark Harrington, ex-Guidance Software, as executive vice president-general counsel ... Polycom adds to board Gary Daichendt, ex-Cisco ... ON Semiconductor adds to board Alan Campbell, ex-Freescale Semiconductor.