Communications Personals
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Executive Director John Fowler retiring, effective Jan. 2 ... Amazon hires Lizzy Simmons from National Retail Federation as manager-public policy ... SAIC appoints Prabu Natarajan, ex-Northrop Grumman, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Jan. 4, succeeding Charlie Mathis, retiring.
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Entercom completes buying sports data and iGaming affiliate platform QL Gaming Group for about $32 million cash; QLGG co-founder and CEO Justin Park continues leading the business ... RingCentral adds MLC Strategies President Mignon Clyburn, ex-FCC, to the board; company also reported for Q3 (see 2011100004).
SoftBank Chief Legal Officer Robert Townsend moves to senior adviser, with Tim Mackey promoted to chief legal officer; SoftBank internal board directors Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure, Executive Vice President-Chief Strategy Officer Katsunori Sago and Executive Vice President Rajeev Misra; plus Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia's Yasir Al-Rumayyan, all resign as directors; board taps Masayoshi Son, Ronald Fisher, Claure, Sago, Misra and Yoshimitsu Goto as corporate officers.
At Tessco Technologies, Robert Barnhill, ex-chairman-CEO-president and now director, seeks to remove five of six independent directors, Stephanie Dismore, the newest such board member (see this section, Aug. 13), writes shareholders; she backs CEO Sandip Mukerjee and rest of management; Barnhill says Kelly Boss, ex-Energizer; NRTC CEO Tim Bryan; John Diercksen, ex-Verizon executive; and Kathleen McLean, who has been at ADT and FairPoint and also is ex-Verizon, are "highly qualified" and have other positives the incumbents lack (see page 6 for more); Tessco says later it adds Cathy-Ann Martine-Dolecki, ex-AT&T, and Ronald McCray, RLJ Equity Partners adviser and A.H. Belo board member, to its board, which Dennis Shaughnessy steps down from now and Morton Zifferer leaves, "effective upon the conclusion of the ongoing consent solicitation process."
Equifax elects Melissa Smith, WEX chair-CEO-president, to its board, from which Elane Stock is retiring; she became CEO, ServiceMaster ... Yelp puts USAA Chief Brand Officer Tony Wells on its board ... Teradata directors David Kepler and James Ringler to retire from the board at 2021 annual meeting, with company reducing board size to nine members from 11 ... Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center adds Northrop Grumman as founding member and company's Rob Fleming to Space ISAC board.