TWICE People

Michael Aguilar promoted at Panasonic from sr. VP-national accts. group to pres. of Panasonic Co. National, newly formed to handle national accounts for the Panasonic, Quasar and Technics lines... Mike Saito rejoins JVC America, from the Japanese parent, as mktg. VP. Kevin Gordon is promoted from Consumer Video Div. products & promotions mgr. to corp. ad & promotions mgr. Chad Vogelsong advances at the Mobile Electronics Div. to national product mgr... Daryl Erbs, ex-Carrier, moves to Fedders as VP-technology... Kazuo Hirai promoted at Sony Computer Entertainment American from exec VP to pres. and continues as COO... Dennis Telfer, ex-Harman Consumer Group, moves to Kenwood as home audio west region sales mgr... Named sector pres.-CEOs at Hewlett-Packard: Ann Livermore, Enterprise Computing Solutions; Duane Zitzner, Computer Products; Antonio Perez, Inkjet Imaging Solutions; Carolyn Ticknor, LaserJet Imaging Systems... Jill Smith, former managing dir. of consultant Treacy & Co., joins client, PC marketer Micron Electronics, as COO, succeeding Joel Kocher, now chmn.-CEO... Karen Adrouny named asst. product mgr. for photo, video and communications at Case Logic... Kyle Green joins Harman's Lexicon as consumer products specialist... Tom Jacoby, ex-Harman International, launches Columbia Consulting, specializing in Internet marketing (516-584-0151).

John Walden, ex-Peapod, moves to Best Buy as pres. of the new E-Commerce Div... Mel Hunger named exec dir., NECO Alliance buying group. His replacement at Key America hasn't yet been named... Cathy Stauffer, Good Guys mktg. VP, adds responsibility for customer and service quality improvement program... Phil Finn, Bradlees Hardlines planning & allocation dir., named VP... Toby Berlin named event programming acquisitions dir. at DirecTv... Alison Locke, THQ promoted from sr. VP software sales to sr. VP, sales & mktg. Germaine Gioia named licensing VP. Joseph Adney advances from mktg. dir. to mktg. VP, succeeding Gioia... Richard McGinn, Lucent Technologies chmn.-CEO, named EIA 1999 Medal of Honor winner. James Gilmore, governor of Virginia, receives EIA's first State Technology Policy Award, to be given annually "for leadership in enhancing the competitiveness of high-tech industries"... Dennis Corcoran, one-time CES staff VP, joins the Personal Communications Industry Assn. as VP-meetings & conventions. Ellen Mullally named communications dir... Bob Pittman, America Online pres., to keynote CEMA's Retailing & the Internet conference, to be held May 18 in Dallas.