ALTICE
Jean-Charles Nicolas has joined Altice USA in New York as senior vice president, Altice Mobile. He had been deputy CEO and chief financial officer at Altice Dominicana, where he managed daily operations, including mobile services.
CURIOSITYSTREAM
CuriosityStream, the over-the-top documentary service launched by Discovery founder John Hendricks, has named ClintStinchcomb president and CEO. He was chief distribution officer.
ARRIS
Arris has elevated Ian Whiting to president of its enterprise networks unit, responsible for Ruckus Networks (formerly Ruckus Wireless). He had been chief commercial officer of Ruckus.
NESN
Art Ventura has joined New England Sports Network as local sales manager. Ventura had held media sales leadership roles at 120 Sports, Madison Square Garden, Fox Television Stations and Disney/ABC National Television Sales.
CADENT
EoinTownsend has joined Cadent as chief product officer. He comes from multiscreen ad company Collective, where he led product technology and marketing teams in support of the company’s programmatic ad offering.
TURNER
Peter Knag was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Turner. He had been VP of AT&T merger planning, leading financial planning and analysis for the integration of the telco and Turner parent Time Warner.
Tony Franchi was named senior vice president of sales and marketing at 365 DATA CENTERS, a provider of hybrid data services for carrier, content and enterprise customers. … Also at CURIOSITYSTREAM, Elizabeth Hendricks North was named president of Curiosity Studios. She had been chief distribution officer. … Alex Wellen was named president and general manager of Discovery Inc.’s MOTOR TREND GROUP. He comes from CNN Worldwide, where he most recently served as global chief product officer. … EURONEWS has tapped Darren McCaffrey as political editor, based in Brussels, Belgium. He comes from Sky News, where he was most recently Ireland correspondent. … TURNER SPORTS has reached a multiyear deal with sideline reporter Allie LaForce for its NBA on TNT and NCAA men’s basketball tournament coverage. She comes from CBS Sports, where she was a college football and basketball sideline reporter.
