People Watch 11/14/12
Stephen Bye, CTO and senior vice president/Technology Development & Corporate Strategy at Sprint, is the new first vice chair of the ATIS board of directors. Nick Adamo, senior vice president/Global Segments & Architecture at Cisco Systems, was elected board secretary…Jeff Buzzelli now is senior vice president/Business Services for Comcast’s Northeast division, responsible for developing, facilitating and implementing strategies aimed at growing Comcast Business Class across 14 northeastern states from Maine through Virginia and the District of Columbia…Francesco Vadalà of Telecom Italia was named chairman of the Open Mobile Alliance’s Technical Plenary, joined by Kepeng Li of Huawei, a new Technical Plenary vice chairman. Along with Technical Plenary vice chairman Roland Hechwartner of T-Mobile, the three will lead the Alliance’s Technical Work Program.