CTRHA

The Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association has named its 2005 officers. They are: Brian C. Koenig of Scientific-Atlanta Inc., president; John W. Jackson of C-SPAN, immediate past president; Beth Arnholt of Comcast Cable Communications Inc., vice president; Julie B. Cookson of Scripps Networks, secretary; and Juan L. Munoz of Time Warner Cable, treasurer.

MFORMA

Former America Online Inc. CEO Barry Schuler has joined the board of directors of MFORMA Group Inc., a publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment.

Nat Geo

National Geographic Television & Film has named Jocelyn Shearer director of sales, National Geographic Film Library. She comes from Corbis Motion, where she was director, film sales and services, West.

NAMIC

Manish Jha was named president of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications. He is senior vice president of ESPN Mobile and the first NAMIC president of Asian origin.

NDS

NDS Group plc has hired Luke Chen Li Chien as chief operating officer, NDS China. He was chief representative of Texas Instruments China in Beijing.

OpVista

Andrew Nguyen has joined OpVista as vice president, engineering. He comes from Sorrento Networks/LuxN, where he was VP, engineering.

ParaSun

Darshan Kaler was named director, information technologies and network operations at ParaSun Technologies Inc. He had been VP, IT and data-center operations at Primus Telecommunications Inc.

Radiant

Sandeep Patel was upped to technical support manager at fiber-optic manufacturing outfit Radiant Communications. He had been a technical support specialist.

Sony

Ken Lo was named vice president, business development, Asia at Sony Pictures Television International. He had been managing director of BDC & Co.

Spike TV

Spike TV has elevated David Gleason to vice president, brand and consumer research. He was director, Spike TV research.

Teleglobe

Tom Rogers was named chairman of the board of directors of telecom-services provider Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd. He is former president of NBC Cable and former chairman and CEO of Primedia Inc.

Telstra

Andrew Morawski was elevated to senior vice president of sales and global accounts at Telstra Corp. Ltd. He was VP, enterprise sales at the Australian companies U.S. unit, Telstra Inc.

Turner Media

Turner Media Group has named Art Cohen senior vice president of ad sales. He comes from ACTV Inc., where he was senior vice president responsible for sales of the SpotOn addressable advertising product.

tvK24

Digital-cable network TV Korea 24 has named Heather Yoon as director of broadcasting. She comes from Korean Broadcasting System, Los Angeles, where she was manager of news and director of production and programming.

Also, tvK24 named Nancy Ahn director, advertising sales. She was director, ad sales at KBS in Los Angeles.

Finally, John H. Chi was tapped as tvK 24’s director, marketing. He was VP, strategic marketing for Korean internet portal Citynet.

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has elevated Cristina Mancini to vice president, marketing, publicity and promotion. She was executive director.

WDIG

Michael Nichols was elevated to senior vice president, creative and content development at Walt Disney Internet Group. He had been VP.

Also, Disney Online elevated Emily Smith to vice president of FamilyFun.com. She had been director, content development.

Weather

The Weather Channel has named Mel Fay Hanna as vice president, compensation, benefits and HRIS. She comes from Scientific-Atlanta Inc., where she had served as director, global compensation.