Communications Personals
Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center in Washington, D.C., promotes Kinney Zalesne to U.S. Government Affairs team as general manager-responsible growth strategy; hires Mariah Sixkiller from Sixkiller Consulting for U.S. Government Affairs team as director-government relations, reporting to Zalesne; and Danyelle Solomon joins same team from Center for American Progress as director-justice reform and racial equity policy; software maker separately hires Christopher Young from McAfee as executive vice president-business development, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella.
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Leidos hires Amy Smith from Boeing as deputy-government affairs and vice president-congressional affairs ... Transaction Network Services promotes Bill Versen to president-communications market, newly created job ... Entravision appoints its board member and consultant and SWS Consulting founder-CEO Juan Saldivar to also be chief digital, strategy and accountability officer.
ForgeLight, Grupo Televisa and Searchlight Capital Partners appoint "independent members to a reconstituted Board" for Univision, effective on completion of buying (or, in Televisa's case, keeping its share of) stakes in the broadcaster that's still expected in 2020 (see this section, Feb. 26): Marcelo Claure, SoftBank; Oscar Munoz, United Airlines; MC Gonzalez Noguera, Estee Lauder Cos.; and Gisel Ruiz, ex-Sam’s Club.
IoXt Alliance appoints Facebook Reality Labs Security Partners Marcus Hodges and Ryan Nakamoto to the ioXt board ... Avaya taps Rob Theis, with venture capital firm World Innovation Lab, as a board member ... At Meredith, board member Thomas Harty, who remains president-CEO, elected chairman; and director Elizabeth Tallett elected lead independent director ... LiveRamp puts Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Microsoft's LinkedIn and director of iHeartMedia, on its board.