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With Adam Candeub leaving NTIA (see 2008100046) for DOJ, NTIA moves Carolyn Roddy to acting administrator; Candeub becomes deputy associate attorney general; Roddy's title is acting deputy assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information ... Now on Biden-Harris agency review team for FCC is Christiana Ho of the Florida Democratic Party, whose source of funding is listed as "Transition -- PT Fund, Inc." ... Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) appoints Eric Blank to Public Utilities Commission and as chair, with a four-year appointment effective Jan. 11, pending Senate confirmation; he succeeds Commissioner Jeff Ackermann, whose term is ending.
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Access Partnership appoints Yamel Sarquis from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation as policy manager-Latin America in its Emerging Markets team, based in Washington ... Albright Stonebridge Group adds as senior adviser Steve Solot from Netflix, now working with media industry clients ... Intel hires Angel Preston, ex-Alliance for Automotive Innovation, as policy director-autonomous vehicles and IoT ... Phone2Action buys KnowWho, whose CEO Bruce Brownson becomes general manager of Phone2Action's KnowWho business.
Frontier Communications intends to hire Nick Jeffery as president-CEO, effective March 1 following end "of his notice period with Vodafone UK" and succeeding Bernie Han, stepping down then from those jobs and remaining on the telco's board to "guide the CEO transition until emergence from Chapter 11," when Jeffery joins the board ... Comcast's FreeWheel elevates Mark McKee to U.S. chief revenue officer, a job he had done on acting basis.
Salem Media hires David Cruz, ex-iHeartRadio, as vice president, Salem Si, a digital streaming platform launching in January and focused on U.S. Latinos ... White Ops appoints Mike Aiello, ex-AppGate, as chief product officer; Swati Baradia, ex-ACI Worldwide, as head-data engineering; Michael McNally, ex-Facebook, as chief scientist; Tom Miller, ex-Emailage, as chief gravity officer, new post; and Andrew Rabie, ex-Madison Square Garden Co., as head-IT/security.
C-SPAN elects Cox Communications President-CEO Pat Esser as chairman; Comcast CEO Dave Watson ends term as executive committee chairman and moves to board vice chairman; Phil Spencer, Vyve Broadband, joins board for two-year term; and C-SPAN co-CEOs Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain become senior executive directors, joining the board and retaining their current roles.
Discovery board adds Robert Johnson, who was Black Entertainment Television founder and chairman, effective Jan. 1, day after Decker Anstrom leaves the board, where common stock director Susan Swain assumes Anstrom’s role as preferred stock director ... Silicon Integration Initiative OpenAccess Coalition elections include Raymond Rodriguez, Intel, as chair, and Ben Bowers, Microsoft, vice chair.