Communications Personals
Frontier Communications promotes AJ Burton to vice president-federal regulatory affairs, succeeding Mike Saperstein, hired (see 1803220014) by USTelecom, effective April 9 ... FirstNet Association begins, led by Al Gillespie, past president, International Association of Fire Chiefs; Ray Flynn, retired assistant sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; and Richard Mirgon, past president, APCO ... StreamSearch Live hires Marty Lafferty, ex-Telecommunications Industry Association, as chief content officer ... Ex-aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Denzel Singletary hired by eBay, joins Government Relations team to lead Small Business Ambassador Network.
NCC Media owners Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox Communications start NCC division for unified advertising solutions across participants’ footprints; Comcast Media 360's Andrew Ward named general manager of the new division; NCC President-CEO Greg Schaefer recently announced retirement, effective Dec. 31; and NCC board "spearheading the initiative," led by David Kline, Charter, Billy Farina, Cox Media, and Marcien Jenckes, Comcast Cable.
Akamai hires Scott Lovett, ex-McAfee, as senior vice president-global web sales ... Vonage promotes Sagi Dudai to global chief technology officer ... Jason Kearns, confirmed by the Senate March 1, sworn in Monday as an International Trade Commissioner, term ending Dec. 16, 2024.
Coriant promotes Robert Shore to senior vice president-global sales enablement, and under him; Farshid Mohammadi, ex-GoFoton, previously hired as vice president of multi-sided platform partner program; Bert Buescher promoted to vice president-global technical sales; Scott Larson, ex-Sycamore Networks, moves up to vice president-digital & social media marketing; and Stefan Spaelter, ex-Lucent Bell Labs, elevated to vice president-global technical sales support; among others moving.
Incompas adds Logix Fiber Networks as member; Logix Chief Financial Officer Patrick Lentz joins the association's board; in January, the company bought Incompas member Alpheus Communication ... Patreon names Goli Sheikholeslami, Chicago Public Media, to board ... Calix's Bernd Hesse elected to Broadband Forum board ... Enterprise Wireless Alliance starts Private Wireless Education Council; board of trustees elects Kevin Carter, Mobile Communications America, chair; other officers are Vice Chair Katie Ward, P&R Communications Service, and Secretary Eric Hill, EWA; and other trustees: Pat Cuntz, Emco Technologies; Joe Gately, Gately Communication; Rob Leonard, Comtronics; and Perry Vincent, Louisiana Radio Communications.