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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 ... Riverbed Technology moves Paul Mountford to CEO, succeeding Jerry Kennelly, who co-founded the company and now retiring ... Appointments at ShelterZoom creator of blockchain real estate transaction products include Dmitry Goroshevsky, co-founder of blockchain projects, as chief architect and Donna Oliva, who co-founded w-Technologies with ShelterZoom Technical Adviser Sergey Fradkov, to general counsel.
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.
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.
Akamai hires Scott Lovett, ex-McAfee, as senior vice president-global web sales ... Park Place Technologies names Tony Tricarichi, ex-KPMG, chief financial officer; he was the data center hardware maintenance firm's interim CFO ... Bluecore hires alumni from BlueKai, now part of Oracle, Sherene Hilal as vice president-product marketing and business operations, and Stephen Papa as head-product, platform and data integrations ... 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 ... Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center's Sheltered Harbor directors name Don Callahan, Citi, co-chairman, succeeding Jim Rosenthal, and add Matthew Chung, Morgan Stanley head-cybersecurity, to the board ... 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.