Ossia wireless power firm taps Jim Cottrell, ex-HP, to lead regulatory efforts as senior director-regulatory compliance ... Comcast adds Toni Beck, ex-NextDecade, as vice president-external affairs, Houston Region ... Liberty Global and Digital Colony creating AtlasEdge Data Centres in transaction they expect to close in Q3, with industry executive Josh Joshi to be AtlasEdge executive chairman ... Hearst Television promotes Andrew Vrees to president-general manager, WMUR-TV Manchester, New Hampshire, succeeding Jeff Bartlett, retiring this summer.
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Everspin Technologies announces Chief Financial Officer Daniel Berenbaum resigning "to pursue another opportunity overseas" and names Corporate Controller Aparna Oka interim principal financial and accounting officer ... Cloudleaf hires former eBay and PayPal executive Alok Bhanot as executive vice president-chief technology officer ... Slync.io taps SAP’s Paul Pessutti as executive vice president-chief revenue officer ... Deep Instinct hires Forcepoint’s Jeffrey Giannetti as CRO.
Senate Judiciary Committee votes 13-9 to advance to the floor the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson for judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, to replace now-Attorney General Merrick Garland ... Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, becomes House co-chair, Congressional Internet Caucus, succeeding ex-Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga.
FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appoints to Ending 9-1-1 Fee Diversion Now Strike Force: Chair Kelli Merriweather, Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications, representing National Association of State 911 Administrators as current vice president and incoming president; Vice Chair Steven Sharpe, Genesee County, New York, representing New York State 911 Coordinators Association; reps federal agencies, Laurie Flaherty, Department of Transportation National 911 Program; for state attorneys general Richard Bradford, North Carolina DOJ; reps jurisdictions found not diverting Terry Clark, Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Police, and Daryl Branson, Colorado Public Utilities Commission; on behalf of jurisdictions trying to stop such fee shifting Lance Terry, Oklahoma 911 Management Authority, Dana Wahlberg, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, and Budge Currier, California Office of Emergency Services.
More named the FCC task force: State 911 administrators Cindy Barbera-Brelle, Illinois State Police, and Merriweather, representing NASNA; from public safety organizations Nicole Pickrell, Loudoun County, Virginia, Department of Fire and Rescue, and for International Association of Fire Chiefs, Mel Maier, Oakland County, Michigan, Sheriff’s Office and reps Major County Sheriffs of America, and Monmouth County, New Jersey, Sheriff Shaun Golden; for groups representing public and consumers Thaddeus Johnson, Washington, D.C., Office of the People’s Counsel for National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates; those for public safety answering point professionals April Heinze, National Emergency Number Association, Karima Holmes, ShotSpotter also repping 911der Women, Mark Reddish, APCO, and Sharpe, with New York State 911 Coordinators Association; and Designated Federal Officer from FCC John Evanoff and Deputy Designated Federal Officer Jill Coogan.