Texas Instruments says Brian Crutcher has resigned as president-CEO and board member, and named Rich Templeton again to be president-CEO, and he remains chairman; Crutcher allegedly violated the company's code of conduct in his personal behavior ... Molex CEO Martin Slark retires in November, when Chief Operating Officer Joe Nelligan advances to CEO ... Ericsson advances Jan Karlsson to senior vice president/head-Business Area Digital Services, effective Aug. 1, when he joins the executive team; he has been doing the job on an interim basis.
DLA Piper hires Peter Shroyer, ex-FCC Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division, as associate, Telecom practice, and from McDermott Will Eric Hagen as partner, Intellectual Property and Technology practice ... Marvin Ammori, ex-Virgin Hyperloop One, joins as general counsel open-source data firm Protocol Labs ... ASCAP promotes to the new post of deputy general counsel Gregory Morgado ... BGR Group hires as digital director, a new position: Liz Fontaine, ex-McCain Institute and Center for a New American Security.
L3 Technologies Senior Vice President-Washington Operations Richard Cody is retiring; he led the corporate office in Washington and has chaired its political action committee; separately, L3 appoints aerospace and defense expert Stephen O’Bryan senior vice president-chief global business development officer ... Entravision taps Rodrigo Margain, ex-Cinepolis and Fox Television Group, as vice president-sales and business development, Mexico, heading the business there.
Northrop Grumman Chairman-CEO Wes Bush to step down as CEO effective Jan. 1, remaining chairman through July 2019; board elects Kathy Warden, president-chief operating officer, to CEO-president, effective Jan. 1 and to join the board, effective now ... Dorsey & Whitney hires from Huntsman Corp. Troy Keller, previously an attorney at Qwest Communications, as of counsel, Corporate Group ... President Donald Trump to nominate James Morhard, Senate deputy sergeant at arms, to be NASA deputy administrator.
FCC personnel moves announced at Thursday's commissioners' meeting: Andi Roane detailed to Office of the Chairman as executive assistant to Chief of Staff Matthew Berry from Commissioner Brendan Carr’s office, succeeding in Ajit Pai's office Kim Mattos, who moves to Office of General Counsel Litigation Division as forfeiture specialist; in Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's office, Aurelle Porter joins, named staff assistant, from Office of Legislative Affairs, where she was special assistant ... President Donald Trump to appoint Christine Ciccone assistant secretary-legislative affairs, Department of Homeland Security, where she's now senior adviser.
Morrison & Foerster hires Lisa Phelan, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division, as partner, Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Group ... LexisNexis Risk Solutions starts global Connected Car team, led by Senior Director-Product Management, U.S. Connected Car Adam Hudson and Vice President-Global Products Rutger van der Wall ... Syniverse adds Philip Celestini, ex-FBI Washington field office, as chief security and risk officer ... F5 Networks names from Seattle Children’s Hospital Mary Gardner as chief information security officer.
Manatt adds to privacy and data security practice with Ingrid Beierly, ex-Visa, as senior adviser-cyber and global payment security; John Treviño, ex-BT Americas, as counsel; and Peter Reid, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as senior adviser ... National Technical Systems moves up Rich Adams to president-CEO and Hector Paez to chief operating officer ... Consultant Ian Greenblatt, also ex-Arris, joins J.D. Power as Technology, Media and Telecom Practice lead.
HC2 Holdings hires from Sinclair Rebecca Hanson as executive vice president-general counsel, HC2 Broadcasting ... Svetlana Gans, ex-FTC chief of staff under then-acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen, joins NCTA as vice president-associate general counsel, working on consumer protection and competition policy issues, a new area of focus for a lawyer at the group ... Pillsbury hires from Drinker Biddle Lee Petro as special counsel, Communications Practice; he has broadcasting, wireless and telecom expertise and advises on areas including distributed ledger technologies, cybersecurity and privacy.
TiVo CEO Enrique Rodriguez resigns to take chief technology officer position at Liberty Global in Europe; TiVo board member Raghu Rau will be interim CEO until successor is named ... President Trump names Bill Shine, ex-Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, White House assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications ... Lobbyist registrations: Bloomberg, Sidley Austin, effective June 22 ... Zayo Group, Northfork Solutions, effective June 21 ... 22nd Century, Mercury, effective June 1 ... Hytera Communications America (West), Calfee, Halter, effective June 1 ... Managed service provider Knowledge Services, Miller Strategies, effective June 1 ... Amazon, King & Spaulding, effective May 16 ... Equifax, Atrio Consulting Group, effective May 9 ... SiriusXM, Kelsay Strategies, effective May 3 ... TracFone, Maine Street Solutions, effective April 1.
New Davis Polk partners include David Bauer, Corporate Department, practicing in Intellectual Property and Technology Group ... Thin Film Electronics near-field communication mobile marketing firm hires from AdBlock Poorab Shah as executive vice president-software, succeeding Christian Delay, promoted to chief commercial officer ... Mercedes-Benz USA moves include Heiko Schmidt to general manager, CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Service, and Electric Drive), a promotion and succeeding Harry Hynekamp, left to pursue other interests; and Zelma Cilliers to chief information officer, effective Aug. 1, succeeding Rose Kwon, named CIO-NAFTA region; Cilliers had been CIO in Canada.