Facebook hires from TechFreedom Ashkhen Kazaryan as policy manager-content regulation ... Crown Castle promotes Chris Levendos to lead small cells and fiber solutions as executive vice president-chief operating officer, fiber, effective Dec. 1; he succeeds James Young, who's retiring and remaining with company through February, as planned (see this section, Aug. 17).
Microchip Technology names President-Chief Operating Officer Ganesh Moorthy to succeed Steve Sanghi as CEO, effective March 1, as Sanghi transitions to executive chairman; Moorthy also joins Microchip board ... Reddit promotes Roxy Young to be its first chief marketing officer and Nellie Peshkov to chief people officer, also a new post ... Zuora adds Valerie Jackson, ex-Procore Technologies, as the company’s first chief diversity officer, reporting to co-founder and CEO Tien Tzuo ... Skydio recent hires include Roy Goldman, ex-Carbon and Tesla, as head-product management, and Ryan Reading from Samsara for head-software engineering ... Cubic taps David Whelan, ex-Boeing, for senior vice president-chief scientist.
Recording Academy moves up Kelley Purcell to vice president-membership and industry relations ... In Alaska Communications Systems' planned sale to an affiliate of Macquarie Capital and GCM Grosvenor, ACS spokesperson tells us the plan is to keep employees and executives; they include President-CEO Bill Bishop, Chief Financial Officer Laurie Butcher, Senior Vice President-Legal, Regulatory and Government Affairs Leonard Steinberg and Senior Vice President-Operations and People Matters Diedre Williams; the cash deal, worth about $300 million, would take the telco private and is expected to close in 2021's second half (see 2011050054).
Brownstein Hyatt hires Venable alumnus Mark Pryor, ex-senator (D) and Arkansas attorney general, as shareholder, Government Relations Department, working with State Attorneys General and Congressional Investigations groups and federal government relations practice ... ViacomCBS says Laura Franco, executive vice president-general counsel for the CBS-branded businesses, moves to become a consultant to the company through Dec. 1 ... FirstNet promotes Richard Reed to deputy chief-network technology and operations.
Baller Stokes says its Jim Baller, Sean Stokes and Casey Lide join Keller and Heckman as partners, Keller and Heckman says they join telecom practice; Lide tells us that rather than being a combination of the firms, Baller Stokes "is being wound down" ... Teradata board moves Molly Treese to chief legal officer, succeeding Laura Nyquist, retiring; Erica Hausheer, ex-3D Systems, named chief information officer.
Lisa Youngers, leaving as Fiber Broadband Association chief (see this section, Oct. 30), hired by Tata Communications as international general counsel ... Boeing adds Brandon Mitchell, ex-NTIA International Spectrum Policy Division Satellite Branch chief, as satellite systems regulatory and spectrum engineer, Boeing Global Spectrum Management ... Dorsey & Whitney adds ex-Jones Day international lawyer Justin Huff as partner; he has experience with technology, telecom and other Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. issues ... Wilson Sonsini adds Joshua Kaplan, ex-Checkout.com, as partner and member, corporate practice.
Monument Advocacy adds longtime lobbyist and lawyer Lawrence Duncan from Potomac Policy Advisors as a partner; his recent clients have been in areas including technology and transportation ... NRTC adds Michael Brown, ex-SAIC, as vice president-engineering, Broadband Solutions group; David Primmer, consultant whose clients included Sprint/T-Mobile, gets newly created NRTC post of vice president-vendor and supply chain management ... CBS Studios and NAACP announce Sheila Ducksworth, ex-Will Packer Media, is president of the new CBS/NAACP production partnership.
FCC Wireless Bureau promotes Charles Mathias from associate chief to deputy chief ... Fiber Broadband Association board taps Gary Bolton, ex-Adtran, as president-CEO, succeeding Lisa Youngers, who's leaving "for a new industry opportunity" ... Internet Association hires Christina Martin, ex-Corn Refiners Association, as senior vice president-communications and public affairs ... Association for Digital Asset Markets hires Michelle Bond from Ripple as CEO, succeeding Jeffrey Blockinger.
Dentons hires from McGuireWoods Michael Drobac as principal and Gregory Walden as partner, Public Policy practice; they have worked on emerging technologies, online travel, e-commerce, IT services and internet platforms ... Phillips Lytle hires Darren Fernandez as associate; he focuses on telecom and is ex-FCC Wireline Bureau attorney-adviser ... Staff Assistant Ovonda Walker leaving Mike O’Rielly's FCC office for similar post in Office of Bureau Chief, Public Safety Bureau.
Mintz hires for Technology, Communications and Media Practice as associates: Jonathan Garvin from Lerman Senter and Geanette Foster, ex-Paul Weiss; both focus on broadband and wireless ... Named acting legal adviser for wireless and international issues for FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel during paternity leave of Umair Javed is Mary Claire York, whose permanent job is special counsel-Wireless Bureau Mobility Division; Rosenworcel announces this at Tuesday's monthly meeting.