OpenText hires Sandy Ono from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also former Disney, as chief marketing officer; Michael Acedo rises to chief legal officer and corporate secretary, succeeding Gordon Davies, who becomes senior adviser to the CEO until his retirement in September; Doug Parker ascends to executive vice president-corporate development ... Podcast hosting platform Liberated Syndication announces John Gibbons from Pocket Casts, also former Amazon, as president and chief product officer.
At Tech Oversight Project, executive director is Sacha Haworth, ex-American Bridge 21st Century, and deputy executive director-communications director is Kyle Morse, ex-Trump War Room ... Disney promotes Trisha Husson to head-strategy, business operations and finance, Disney General Entertainment; Eric Marcotte adds oversight of strategy and business operations team as senior vice president.
Woods Aitken adds Shana Knutson as partner, working on telecom, business services and real estate law; she was Nebraska Public Service Commission general counsel ... Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden reappoints Judge David Strickler as copyright royalty judge (economics) for six-year term ... Karen Modlin says she's leaving Dish Network for Zayo, which hires her as director-communications.
NAB hires third-generation broadcaster Bradford Caldwell, ex-chief financial officer of East Arkansas Broadcasters, as vice president-member experience, effective Feb. 1; NAB post is a new one following retirement of Senior Vice President-Member Services and Operations BJ Corriveau at year end's 2021 ... CBS News and Stations moves Joel Goldberg to general manager, CBS Newspath; he remains senior vice president-operations, CBS Stations.
At Graham Holdings, Graham Media President-CEO Emily Barr retires "later this year"; Catherine Badalamente, vice president-chief innovation officer, becomes her successor ... Lumen hires Stephanie Minnock as assistant general counsel, replacing Jeff Lanning; she works on USF issues and comes from FCC Wireline Bureau’s Telecom Access Policy Division; Lanning previously went to Womble Bond.
News Media Alliance affiliate American Press Institute hires Michael Bolden as executive director-CEO; he's from the San Francisco Chronicle and starts at API by Feb. 14 ... National Emergency Number Association taps Brooks Shannon as interoperability program manager; he was vice president-geographic information systems, RapidDeploy ... CommScope hires Markus Ogurek from Cisco as senior vice president-segment leader, Venue and Campus Networks business ... Strategic Venue Partners taps former AT&T executive Kevin Hetrick as chief operating officer of the provider of in-building wireless-connectivity-as-a-service.
Univision Communications adds executives to its streaming team "in preparation for the launch of its two-tiered global platform": Chief Marketing Officer-Streaming Roger Sole, ex-Sprint (now T-Mobile) and more recently formerly WeWork global CMO; Senior Vice President of Development-Streaming Vincenzo Gratteri, ex-Onza Americas; Senior Vice President-Streaming Partnerships Adam Waltuch, from Netflix; and Senior Vice President-Business and Legal Affairs, Streaming Rita Chertorivski, ex-NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.
CSG hires Rasmani Bhattacharya, ex-Gates Corp., as general counsel ... FCC’s Zac Champ, chief of staff at Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, also now is acting deputy chief, CGB’s Consumer Policy Division ... Cable Center promotes Diane Christman to president-CEO, succeeding Jana Henthorn, who retired in December.
Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue adds three as senior fellows, including Bret Swanson, president of Entropy Economics ... Intel hires Micron Technology’s David Zinsner as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Jan. 17, to succeed current CFO George Davis, remaining adviser until May, when he retires; Intel also promotes Michelle Johnston Holthaus to executive vice president and general manager-client computing business, replacing Executive Vice President Gregory Bryant, who leaves the company at month's end.
Wilson Sonsini hires Maneesha Mithal, former associate director of the FTC Privacy and Identity Protection Division, as a partner in the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice ... Sheppard Mullin announces Marisa Brutoco, former in-house counsel at Google, Amazon, GoPro and Apple, as a partner in its entertainment, technology and advertising practice and as a member of the technology transactions team, which she will co-lead ... Cybersecurity platform Imperva taps Infor’s Brad Steiner as general counsel and chief compliance officer.