Career Moves: August 22, 2006

Authored by dmw on August 22, 2006 - 9:12am.

Maureen Govern, CTO for AOL resigns.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/bs_nm/media_aol_dc_1
http://dmwmedia.com/news/2006/08/21/cto-of-aol-resigns-following-privacy-breach

John McKinley takes over as interim CTO for AOL.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/bs_nm/media_aol_dc_1

Hugh Panero resigns from the board of Vonage due to the demands of his role at XM Satellite Radio.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060821/nym023.html?.v=65
http://www.xmradio.com
http://www.vonage.com

Michelle P. Connolly was named Chief Economist of the FCC. Dr. Connolly is Director of EcoTeach and Associate Professor of the practice at Duke University.
http://www.fcc.gov/

Jeremy Legg has been named VP, Business Development, at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Legg will be in charge of developing and executing non-linear distribution for various Turner properties across multiple platforms.
http://turner.com/

Jonathan Barzilay has joined CBS Digital Media in the new position of Senior Vice President, Entertainment. Barzilay will be the go-between for digital media operations and CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group.
http://www.cbs.com/

fuse, the interactive music network, has promoted Michael Roche to Director, Advertising Sales for the Midwest Region. Roche will be responsible for managing the new Midwest advertising sales office and staff.
http://www.fuse.tv/index.php

ABC Owned Television Stations has promoted Daria Rachlin to Vice President, Digital Media.
http://abc.go.com/

Matthew de Ganon has been promoted to Vice President, Broadband and Consumer Applications at The Weather Channel. Matthew is charged with developing and producing the new program One Degree as well as other new broadband projects.
http://www.weather.com/

Chelsye J. Burrows has been promoted to the newly created position of Vice President, Programming Publicity, at Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG). Burrows is charged with generating publicity for all Starz and Encore linear channels, SEG’s on demand services and the MoviePlex, RetroPlex and IndiePlex channels.
http://www.starz.com/appmanager/seg/s

Channing Chor joins Double Fusion as its Business Development Manager — Chor was previously part of the Business Development Team at Fox Interactive Media.
http://www.doublefusion.com/

Jennifer McLean joins Double Fusion as its Senior Director of Marketing. McLean comes to Double Fusion from IGN where she was responsible for marketing, sales development, public relations, events, and custom client promotions.
http://www.doublefusion.com/

Alex Sood joins Double Fusion as Senior Director, Legal Affairs and Operations. Sood was previously an attorney with Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he focused on the representation of emerging technology companies.
http://www.doublefusion.com/

Nir Hasson joins Double Fusion as its Senior Programmer. Hasson was previously a programmer for Simbionix, a leading developer of virtual reality medical simulation tools.
http://www.doublefusion.com/

Cyril Talbot III resigns as Mad Catz’s CFO.
http://www.madcatz.com/