WARNER BROS. PICTURES: Niija Kuykendall has been promoted to VP of Production.

UTA: Ali Barash joins as Coordinator of Digital Media.

CAA: Ashley Holland has promoted to TV Literary Coordinator.

ALCON TV: Ben Roberts joins as Development Executive, effective July 9, 2012.

DI BONAVENTURA PICTURES: Edward Fee has been promoted to VP.

LD ENTERTAINMENT: Patrick Raymond joins as Creative Executive.

THE COMBINE: Philip G. Flores has been promoted to Creative Executive and Assistant to Don Handfield.

ROMARK FILMS: Kevin Gleason has been promoted to Head of Digital & Media Development. Emmanuel Gomez has been promoted to Senior Executive. Javan Nguyen joins as Head of Digital & Media Production.

QED INTERNATIONAL: Elissa Howarth has been promoted to Director of Production & Development.

DOW JONES: Todd Larson is departing his position as President.  He had been with the company for 13 years. Bethany Sherman is also leaving Dow Jones.  She had been Senior Vice President, Circulation.

REED MIDHEM: Jerome Delhaye has been promoted to Director, Entertainment.  He’s been with the company since 2005.

RTL GROUP: Oliver Fahlbusch has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Marketing.  He has been with the company since 2006.

USA NETWORK: Scott Friedman has been promoted to Vice President, Production for Alternative Programming.  He had been a production executive there and before that was an executive at Morningstar.

POINT LOAD PICTURES: Shanna Albert is now Vice President, Development.  She previously was Head, Development at Peace Point Entertainment for three years.

COMEDY CENTRAL: Chris Scarlata has been promoted to Vice President, Design.  He previously was Design Director for on-air promotions there.

EONE: Patrick McDonough has been hired as Senior Vice President, Home Entertainment Sales. Suzanne Faber is the new Director, Children’s Marketing.

KETCHUM: Rob Flaherty has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner.  He previously was President and Senior Partner. Roy Kotcher has been promoted to Chairman and Senior Partner.  He previously was CEO and Senior Partner there.

NORTHSOUTH PRODUCTIONS: Joe DelGrosso has joined its Knoxville office as Director, Production.  He previously was with CMT as a producer-director. Simone Burke has joined as Development Producer.  She previously was with Broadway Video as Digital Content Manager.

VIACOM18: Sudhanshu Vats has joined as its group Chief Executive Officer.  He previously was with Hindustan Unilever Limited.

THE WEATHER CHANNEL: Eric Hadley has been hired as Senior Vice President, Partner Solutions and Ad Trade Marketing.  He previously was with Microsoft as General Manager, Worldwide Marketing for BING and MSN.

GANNETT: Fergus Mellon has joined as Senior Vice President, Pricing and Planning.  He previously was Meebo Inc’s Senior Director, Revenue Strategy and Development. Victoria Harker joins as Chief Financial Officer, effective July 23, 2012.

NATIONAL TELEVISION CABLE COOPERATIVE: Shannon Summers joins as Senior Director of Programming Analysis.

BBC: Amanda Farnsworth has been promoted to Editor, Visual Journalism Unit/BBC News.

PAYPAL: Hill Ferguson has been promoted to President of Global Products. Gary Marino has been promoted to President of Global Financial Services. Rupert Keeley has been promoted to President of EMEA Markets. Don Kingsborough has joined as Executive, Offline Payments.

FACEBOOK: Sheryl Sandberg has been elected to a Board of Directors seat.

TIME WARNER CABLE: Jack Herbert was promoted to Vice President of Regional Operations, Midwest Market.

COX COMMUNICATIONS: Paul Cronin has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Customer Experience.

COMCAST: Matthew Summy joins as Regional Vice President, Government Affairs/Greater Chicago Region.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ENTERTAINMENT: Irene Baker joins as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs.