Javier Rodriguez

» Javier Rodriguez has been named executive director of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority.

» Karl S. Wright has been named the 11th president of historically black Florida Memorial University.

» Charles Hermanowski, who earned a fortune as a pioneer in Miami's cable television industry, has been sentenced to
nine years in prison and fined $4 million after pleading guilty to a string of tax and related fraud charges.

» Former Miami Herald Publisher Alberto Ibarguen, now president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has been named chairman of the Newseum, a Washington, D.C., news industry museum.