Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Senate Commerce Committee staff changes: John Keast, ex-Wicker office, becomes staff director; Crystal Tully advances to deputy staff director; Steven Wall, ex-House Administration Committee, is general counsel; Rick VanMeter, Wicker communications director, same role; Brianna Manzelli elevated to deputy communications director; and, all from Wicker's office, senior policy directors include James Mazol, space subcommittee; and Olivia Trusty, Communications Subcommittee.
Information Technology Industry Council board elects from Electronic Transactions Association Jason Oxman, formerly with what was then CEA and now is CTA, as president-CEO, effective Feb. 28; at around that time, outgoing ITI chief Dean Garfield joins Netflix (see this section, Nov. 20); also at around that time, ETA will start searching for a new CEO; the group's Chairman-President Kevin Jones, Celero Commerce, will work with the association's staff.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) names Genevieve Shiroma to California Public Utilities Commission, replacing Carla Peterman, retiring ... AT&T promotes Trey Rabon to state president-North Carolina, succeeding Venessa Harrison, now president-Georgia ... Federal Street Strategies hires Derron Parks, ex-Samsung Electronics, as senior strategist ... Spectrum Consortium taps Sasha Javid, ex-Hogan Lovells, as chief operating officer.
American Enterprise Institute names Robert Doar, Morgridge fellow in poverty studies, president, succeeding Arthur Brooks (see this section, March 16) ... Permission.io announces Rob Gregory, ex-Whosay, as president ... Stack appoints Matt VanderZanden, ex-Facebook, chief strategy officer ... LiveXLive Media hires David Schulhof, ex-G2 Investment Group, as chief development officer ... Sinclair promotes Todd Ricke to general manager, WTVC Chattanooga, and oversees Sinclair provision of services to WFLI-TV Cleveland, Tennessee, under a joint sales agreement ... In acquiring The Coral Project, Vox Media hires current team including project head Andrew Losowsky ... ASTM names Klas Boivie, Sintef Manufacturing, to international board.
McGuireWoods Consulting adds Gregory Guice, ex-Akin Gump, as senior vice president-federal public affairs/senior counsel, McGuireWoods ... DLA Piper announces partners-intellectual property and technology Tracy Shapiro, ex-Wilson Sonsini, and Michael Jay, ex-Boies Schiller ... Stevens & Lee taps James MacDonald, ex-Ballard Spahr, to co-chair technology, telecom and life sciences ... T-Mobile US hires Ulf Ewaldsson, ex-Ericsson, as senior vice president-technology transformation (see 1901180024) ... Ohio Public Utilities Commissioner Thomas Johnson won’t seek reappointment; term expires April 10.
Venable hires for legislative and government affairs practice: Anne Kierig, ex-DLA Piper, as counsel-cybersecurity and privacy; Steve Vest, ex-Time Warner, as senior policy adviser; and Nick Choate, ex-Office of former Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., as policy adviser-telecom, cybersecurity and technology ... Duane Morris taps Kevin Anderson, ex-Wiley Rein, as partner-intellectual property.
ATSC announces Mark Richer will retire as president later this year, successor to be picked by a search committee chaired by Richard Friedel, Fox, who was selected for that role by Lynn Claudy, NAB, newly elected to succeed Friedel as ATSC board chairman ... ASCAP appoints Nicole Carbone-Rogers, from Billboard, senior vice president/head-events, effective Feb. 11 ... Audio Engineering Society hires Colleen Harper, ex-American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, as executive director.
Benton Foundation names Christopher Ali, University of Virginia, faculty research fellow, and moves research consultant Ryland Sherman to research associate ... Lorrie Faith Cranor, ex-FTC, becomes director-Carnegie Mellon University CyLab security and privacy institute ... Nexstar promotes Terri Lynn Bush to associate counsel-senior vice president, human resources, and hires Charles Pautsch, ex-Pautsch Spognardi, as associate counsel-vice president, labor and employment relations, both new posts.
FTI Consulting taps Frederick Hill, ex-Senate Commerce Committee aide, as managing director-strategic communications ... Technology Policy Institute taps David Fish, ex-Verizon among others, as vice president-communications and external affairs, succeeding Chris McGurn, and promotes Sarah Oh to senior fellow ... Wolf Greenfield promotes to shareholders Hunter Keeton, patent, trademark, copyright, domain name disputes and internet cases, and Christina Licursi, trademark prosecution and litigation ... Lazard names Jason Hutchinson, ex-Oppenheimer, managing director-middle market telecom, media and technology.
AT&T Assistant Vice President-Federal Relations Lyndon Boozer leaving ... Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., names Sean Farrell, ex-House Commerce Committee telecom policy staff, legislative director and advances Jon Adame to general counsel-tech and telecom ... South Dakota Public Utilities Commission elects Gary Hanson as chairman and Chris Nelson as vice chairman ... Nebraska Public Service Commission swears in members Tim Schram, re-elected, and Dan Watermeier (see 1811070043), former state senator, replacing Frank Landis, retired (see this section of the Jan. 10 issue).