Joining Nokia from Veoneer, effective Jan. 18, is Nishant Batra, named chief strategy and technology officer and member, Group Leadership team ... F5 Networks hires Haiyan Song from Splunk as executive vice president-security, effective Jan. 4.
IHeartMedia promotes Jordan Fasbender to executive vice president-general counsel-secretary, succeeding Paul McNicol, who will retire at end of 2021 but stays now as executive vice president, “providing counsel to the company’s senior management and ensuring a seamless transition” … Harris Wiltshire promotes lawyers who do telecom and related work to its partnership: John Grimm, a litigator; Robert Friedman, expert on international trade and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.; and Lauren Snyder, also litigator ... Doctor On Demand hires former Aetna executive Nick Lanzi as chief financial officer ... NS1 application and access networking firm appoints David Coffey, ex-Forcepoint, chief product officer ... At BAI Communications' Transit Wireless, Jyoti Mahurkar-Thombre, ex-Landis+Gyr, joins as chief technology officer.
Grubhub hires Amy Perlik Healy, ex-yellowpages.com, to lead public affairs; Hannah Smith, ex-Bird, to run legislative affairs and industry relations on the West Coast; Brett Swanson, ex-Lime, to oversee coalition and industry support; and Grant Klinzman, ex-Uber, for policy communications ... Cox Enterprises taps Connie Walters from subsidiary Cox Automotive as vice president-employment law.
Communications director for Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Rick VanMeter, leaving that office and the Commerce Committee for the private sector and being succeeded by newly promoted Phillip Waller ... Mintz attorneys promoted to members include Angela Kung, for Technology, Communications & Media, working on spectrum use policies and auction procedures; Marguerite McConihe, Intellectual Property, including technology hardware, software, internet and semiconductors; and Lily Zhang, IP, on areas including artificial intelligence, wireless communication, data storage and management, network hardware and software, cybersecurity and cryptography.
Goodfriend Group hires Earl Ash, ex-aide to Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., as senior director-public policy and government relations, specializing in telecom, technology and media, succeeding Meagan Sunn, named tech, telecom and judiciary counsel at office of Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich. ... Cooley global cyber/data/privacy team adds Tiana Demas from Facebook as partner.
Arnold & Porter promotes Wallace Wu to partner and Assad Rajani to counsel, both for Intellectual Property and Technology practice ... FeganScott hires Brooke Achua, ex-Tadler Law, as associate attorney; her expertise includes consumer class actions, antitrust litigation, contract disputes and data privacy and security ... Simpson Thacher hires Antonio Bavasso from Allen & Overy as partner, Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice, with technology, media and telecom clients.
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.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Beth Williams of Office of Legal Policy departing DOJ, which notes OLP during her tenure "played a lead role in the department’s cyber policies" ... Also moving up at Robins Kaplan to partner (see this section, Dec. 11) is Brandy Worden, who works on issues including cybersecurity, privacy and marketing.
Others at FCC also retiring at year's end (see this section, Dec. 10) as announced at Thursday's commissioners' meeting by Chairman Ajit Pai are Senior Counsel-Number Administration, Wireline Bureau Marilyn Jones; Brock Fakken, IT specialist and webmaster for Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; and Media Bureau Attorney-Adviser Stephen Svab; and those who retired from the Media Bureau in recent months: Electronics Engineer Gary Loehrs and Industry Analyst Kay Whitfield ... Texas Public Utility Commission Executive Director JP Urban resigns.
Leaving office of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is his legal adviser on wireless issues, Will Adams, Carr announces; Adams' last day is Friday, he tells us; Office of Economics and Analytics Deputy Chief Economist Jonathan Levy retiring from commission, Chairman Ajit Pai announces, and Levy tells us his last day is Dec. 31 ... Sidley Austin elects as partner Clayton Northouse, for privacy and cybersecurity ... Robins Kaplan promotes to partner Kevin Pasquinelli, intellectual property litigator who has worked with digital hardware, software, telecom technology and network management software clients ... Likely next House Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., names Chief of Staff Nate Hodson as committee GOP staff director to begin 117th Congress … Ballard Spahr adds lawyer Benjamin Charkow, ex-Amster Rothstein, as of counsel, intellectual property; his IP practice includes technology and consumer electronics.