Twice People

CompUSA's Henry Chiarelli, formerly CE VP, was named VP/ strategic planning and business development ... Rudy Provoost, former Philips' consumer electronics global sales and services group manager, named Consumer Electronics Division group manager, replacing Frans van Houten, who was promoted to Philips Semiconductors CEO, following the sudden resignation of Scott McGregor…Ron Garriques promoted to president of Motorola's Personal Communications Sector (PCS) from recently senior VP/GM of Motorola Europe, Middle East & Africa … Robert Reichertappointed to newly created position of product manager for Linear Electronics Systems with responsibility for the Linear Security, ChannelPlus and OpenHouse brands … Mark Pickard, formerly of Toshiba America Information Systems, named product marketing director at BenQ America, a newly created position…Mike Verkinder joins Russound as Western regional sales manager. He previously had the same job at SIM2 Seleco USA … Osmo Hautanen, an ex-Nokia executive, named to Magnolia Broadband's board. During his 18-year tenure as an executive at Nokia, Hautanen was instrumental in developing the U.S. and Latin American markets ...DirecTV veteran Amy Kuessner has joined the marketing team at Starz Encore Group as senior director, program marketing, a new position.