Communications Personals
Others at FCC also retiring at year's end (see this section, Dec. 10) as announced at Thursday's commissioners' meeting by Chairman Ajit Pai are Senior Counsel-Number Administration, Wireline Bureau Marilyn Jones; Brock Fakken, IT specialist and webmaster for Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; and Media Bureau Attorney-Adviser Stephen Svab; and those who retired from the Media Bureau in recent months: Electronics Engineer Gary Loehrs and Industry Analyst Kay Whitfield ... Texas Public Utility Commission Executive Director JP Urban resigns.
8x8 promotes Dave Sipes to CEO and board member; ex-CEO Vik Verma helps "the transition in an advisory role" ... ViacomCBS moves up Raffaele Annecchino to president-CEO, ViacomCBS Networks International, succeeding David Lynn, departing after a transition ... RingCentral names Matthew Bishop, ex-Microsoft, chief digital officer ... Discovery taps Jim Keller, ex-Hulu, for executive vice president-digital ad sales and advanced advertising, before Jan. 4 U.S. launch of discovery+ streaming service (see 2012020049).
Broadcom appointments, reporting to President-CEO Hock Tan: Chief Financial Officer Tom Krause moves to president of the new Infrastructure Software Group; Charlie Kawwas advances to chief operating officer and still running sales for Semiconductor and Brocade Storage Networking businesses and corporate marketing for all of Broadcom; and Kirsten Spears advances to CFO ... Deluxe hires George Eyles from Vista Group as executive vice president-general manager, worldwide cinema ... Incompas board names Allied Telecom CEO Ken Williams to an open director's seat in the medium category ... At Broadband Forum Service Provider Action Council, Mike Talbert from Verizon and Weiqiang Cheng of China Mobile named vice chairs.
Elected to two-year terms on GVF’s board: Paul Deedman, Inmarsat; Jean-Philippe Gillet, Intelsat; Simon Gray, Eutelsat; Yasir Hassan, Arabsat; and Arunas Slekys, Hughes Network Systems ... Aerospace Industries Association elects Kathy Warden, Northrop Grumman, as chairman of its board for 2021, with Mike Petters, Huntington Ingalls, vice chairman; others on Executive Committee for 2021 include Bill Brown, L3Harris Technologies; Leanne Caret, Boeing; Eric DeMarco, Kratos Defense & Security; Roger Krone, Leidos; and James Taiclet, Lockheed Martin.