Free State Foundation hires Theodore Bolema, ex-George Mason University Mercatus Center, full time as senior fellow ... New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) designates Public Service Commissioner Gregg Sayre, also NARUC Telecom Committee co-vice chair, as interim PSC chairman and interim CEO of the Department of Public Service, filling vacancy of Chair Audrey Zibelman, leaving to become CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator ... Facebook board hires Susan Taylor, leaving LinkedIn, which Microsoft recently bought, to be chief accounting officer, effective April 17, succeeding Jas Athwal, resigned ... Fitbit promotes Samir Kapoor to senior vice president-device engineering; leaving this month are Chief Business Officer Woody Scal and Executive Vice President-Interactive Tim Roberts.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai adds to his office: Nathan Leamer, ex-R Street Institute, as policy adviser, and Carlos Minnix, from Enforcement Bureau Spectrum Enforcement Division, as staff assistant ... Attorneys joining Scarinci Hollenbeck in Technology Law Practice Group: David Einhorn, ex-BakerHostetler, as partner and chairman of the practice; Eugene Lieberstein, ex-BakerHostetler, as counsel; and Richard Klar, ex-Richard B. Klar Law Office, as counsel ... John Kneuer becomes senior adviser at American Continental Group, which now hosts his JKC Consulting ... Ex-House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., joins King & Spalding as senior counsel, Government Advocacy and Public Policy practice.
USTelecom promotes Galen Roehl to senior vice president-government affairs ... Viacom promotes Niels Schuurmans to chief marketing officer, Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT, new position.
Cincinnati Bell elevates President-Chief Operating Officer Leigh Fox to president-CEO, effective May 31, when Ted Torbeck retires, remaining on the board ... Entravision Chief Operating Officer Jeffery Liberman adds title of president ... Disney Media Distribution President Ben Pyne departs in the fall, and separately, Disney hires Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul, ex-Crackle, as vice president-communications, Freeform ... Latham & Watkins hires Jack Sheridan, ex-Wilson Sonsini, as corporate partner, Emerging Companies Practice, where he advises tech companies ... Google moves Lee Dunn to head-White House outreach.
Yahoo's Ronald Bell resigns as general counsel, secretary and from all other positions there, it said in an SEC filing ... SoundExchange hires Richard Conlon, adviser to music executives, as chief external affairs officer ... Twilio adds George Hu, ex-Peer, which Twitter bought in 2016, as chief operating officer ... SevOne taps Yash Shah, ex-CA Technologies, as chief technology officer ... Voxbone adds Shachar Radin-Shomrat, ex-myThings, as chief commercial officer ... Teladoc adds to board Kenneth Paulus, Water Street Healthcare Partners ... Lobbyist registrations: Microsoft, Navigators Global, effective Jan. 16 ... Raytheon, Capitol Tax Partners, effective Feb. 15 ... Starry, lobbying on behalf of itself, effective Jan. 26 ... USTelecom, Ogilvy Government Relations, effective Feb. 1.
Ex-FCC Legislative Affairs Deputy Director Sean Conway joins Wilkinson Barker as of counsel ... Starry hires Brian Regan, ex-FCC Wireless Bureau, as senior director-legal, policy and strategy ... Time Warner elevates Matt Hong to chief operating officer, Turner Sports, new position, and promotes Valerie Meraz to senior vice president-content acquisitions and strategy, Turner's entertainment networks ... World Trade Organization members appoint Roberto Azevedo to second four-year term as director-general, effective Sept. 1 ... France Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes adds digital official Cécile Dubarry as director-general, succeeding Benoît Loutrel.
Retiring from Willkie Farr is Jim Casserly, senior counsel and longtime cable lawyer ... National Association of Television Programming Executives elevates JP Bommel to president-CEO ... Manatt Phelps Media, Technology and Advertising practice now includes Ned Sherman; the co-founder of Digital Media Wire becomes chairman of that firm, which continues working with Mannatt Phelps, which names him counsel and director of the practice's professional services division Manatt Digital ... Univision's Fusion Media Group hires from First Look Media Works' Lynn Oberlander as general counsel, Gizmodo Media Group, effective March 20.
President Donald Trump's Assistant-Economic Policy and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn adds to NEC staff as special assistants to the president: DJ Gribbin, ex-Macquarie Capital, for infrastructure policy; Grace Koh, ex-aide to House Communications Subcommittee, technology, telecom and cybercecurity policy; Ashley Hickey Marquis, ex-Glover Park Group, economic policy and chief of staff; and Andrew Quinn, ex-Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, for areas including international trade; among other personnel ... Sullivan & Cromwell elects to partnership Renata Hesse, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division and ex-FCC ... Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., hires Anita Baffoni, WPRO-AM/FM Providence, Rhode Island, as communications director ... Leaving FTC is Justin Cole, who was director, Office of Public Affairs.
LBI Media (Liberman Broadcasting) hires Ashley Wilson, ex-Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, as general counsel ... News Corp. Chief Financial Officer Bedi Singh departs, effective March 1, will be a senior adviser on the company's digital property interests in India, reporting to CEO Robert Thomson; Susan Panuccio, CFO of News Corp. Australia, elevated to CFO of the company ... Kyocera promotes Hideo Tanimoto to president, effective April 1, succeeding Goro Yamaguchi, who will become chairman ... Dynex Power's Bob Lockwood resigns as director and remains CFO-secretary and will leave once a CFO is recruited.
Wilkinson Barker elevates Patrick Halley to partner, with practice areas including broadband deployment/universal service; he also is executive director of the Next Generation 911 Institute ... In NTT Communications buying the rest of RagingWire Data Centers, it said RagingWire President Douglas Adams was promoted to CEO, and founder George Macricostas, who was chairman-CEO, was named executive chairman ... In Arris' buying Ruckus Wireless from Broadcom, Arris said it's starting a unit focused on wireless networking and wired switching technology, led by current Ruckus Chief Operating Officer Dan Rabinovitsj ... Competitive Enterprise Institute adds Taylor Barkley, ex-Mercatus Center at George Mason University, as government affairs manager.