Jonathan Schwantes announces he has left Consumer Reports to become Microsoft director-congressional affairs … Tegna promotes Tom Cox to chief growth officer, newly created position, and elevates Daniel Spinosa to replace Cox as president of Premion, Tegna’s over-the-top advertising platform ... Nielsen hires Nicolina Marzicola, ex-HP, as chief people officer ... FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces members of Technological Advisory Council, including Dean Brenner, former executive at Qualcomm, as chairman and names Martin Doczkat, chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology's Electromagnetic Compatibility Division, as designated federal officer and Sean Yun, that division’s deputy chief, as the alternate designated federal officer.

CPB Evan Slavitt, ex- Paper Excellence, named senior vice president-general counsel, effective March 11, replacing Chief Legal Officer Westwood Smithers, retiring ...

Consumer Technology Association promotes Kinsey Fabrizio to president as Gary Shapiro relinquishes that title but continues as CEO … Latham & Watkins announces promotions to partner including Rachel Blitzer and Thomas Yeh, intellectual property litigation, and Patrick English and Peter Todaro, antitrust and competition … Newly promoted at Music Reports, music rights administration platform: Jason Walker to CEO; Bill Colitre to chief operating officer-general counsel; and Aaron Partington to chief technology officer ... LeoLabs, satellite safety and security company, hires Tony Frazier, ex-Maxar Technologies, as CEO; co-founder and former CEO Dan Ceperley moves to a new chief operations officer role ... Generative AI company Rohirrim names Michael Popay, retired American Express executive vice president-technology risk and information security, as chairman of its advisory board; other advisory board members: Sam Allen, Tableau; Jack Barufka, Pillsbury Law; Todd Fredrick, Elastio; Ben Levitan, Cedalion Partners; and Craig Reed, Growth Strategy Leaders.

Glenn Reynolds, ex-ATIS and former NTIA, joins Nokia as vice president-government affairs for North America and head-Washington office … CTIA adds Nokia Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Nishant Batra to its board ... Lumen Technologies adds Community President-CEO Diankha Linear to its board, expanding it to 12 members.

DOJ taps Princeton University assistant professor Jonathan Mayer as its first chief science and technology adviser and chief AI officer, in its Office of Legal Policy (see 2402220057) ... Kansas Senate confirms reappointment of Andrew French to a second four-year term on the Kansas Corporation Commission, expiring March 15, 2028 … Kaiber, AI creative lab, hires Ede Schweizer, founder of the 3AM product design studio and a former Amazon, Pinterest, Google and Apple executive, as chief design officer, and Kyt Janae, former Foundation director-collector relations, as head-Kaiber Studio ... New Mitel appointments: Christian Jessel, former Unify head-Central Europe, is tapped as head of newly created dedicated DACH sales region, encompassing Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Simon Skellon, ex-Unify, rejoins as senior vice president and head-international region, Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa, excluding DACH.

USTelecom appoints Ainslie Lane, from the International Organization for Migration, as manager-government affairs … Talkdesk cloud contractor hires Zscaler’s Albert Caravelli as senior vice president-alliances and partners ... Aqua Comms, provider of global subsea connectivity services, announces immediate departure of CEO Jim Fagan, and names Chief Network Officer Andy Hudson as his acting replacement ... Jonathan Adelstein, ex-Digital Bridge and former CEO-Wireless Infrastructure Association, says he has joined Vertical Bridge, tower and wireless infrastructure provider, as senior adviser.

Salt Point Strategies, public affairs consulting firm, promotes Jerry Leverich, ex-House staffer, to partner … Nexstar Media moves Chris Pruitt to vice president-general manager, Springfield, Missouri, broadcast and digital operations … Deeplocal, Carnegie Mellon University engineering, design and creative strategy spinoff, promotes Jakob Marsico to chief technology officer and Lauren Kardos to chief financial officer ... Jumio, identity verification platform, hires Igor Beckerman, ex-Newsela and ex-Symantec, as CFO.

New NEP Group appointments: Lise Heidal, former vice president-production for TV 2 in Norway, is hired as president-NEP Europe for NEP broadcast services, effective April 1; Christer Palsson is promoted to chief commercial officer-Europe, reporting to Heidal; and interim SuperSport CEO Jose Teixeira, also its chief content officer, is tapped as president-NEP Nordics, effective April 4 ... EBay adds Workday Chief Financial Officer Zane Rowe to its board, expanding it to 10 members ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hires Victoria Ellington, ex-Ron DeSantis presidential campaign staffer, as deputy chief of staff, promotes Omri Ceren to legislative director, Tim Dill to national security adviser and Samara Brown to domestic policy adviser, and announces return of Cassy Garcia, most recently with Hispanic Republicans of Texas, as deputy state director … Summit Ridge Group promotes Fan Jia to director, Daniel-John Perez and Samantha Lynch to vice presidents, and Katie DiRico to associate … Oregon Senate confirms Les Perkins as member of the Oregon Public Utility Commission, term ending Feb. 15, 2028.

Disney promotes Debra OConnell to president of newly formed News Group and Networks, Disney Entertainment, combining ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations and Networks Business Operations ... Nexstar Media Group hires former Katz Media Group executive Stacey Schulman as executive vice president-platform marketing and intelligence, newly created position ... Vislink Technologies names AML Marketing’s Adrian Lambert, ex-Blackbird, as vice president-marketing … Anti-ransomware company Halcyon hires Chris Catanzaro, ex-SentinelOne, as worldwide vice president-channel and managed security service provider, and David French, ex-Apiiro, as vice president-sales ... Pionare taps ex-YEA Networks executive Mike Morse, also former iHeartMedia, SiriusXM and Capitol Broadcasting, as president-podcasting operations.