Communications Personals
CSRA hires Kathryn Wheelbarger, ex-Senate Armed Services Committee aide, as vice president-litigation/chief compliance officer ... Internet Association adds from office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Michael Bloom as director-federal government affairs ... New at Mayer Brown: Tamer Soliman, with clients in aerospace, internet technology and elsewhere, as partner, International Trade practice and global head of its Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice group ... As part of ZVRS planning to buy Purple Communications (see 1702150061), ZVRS Vice President-Customer Experience Chris Wagner helps lead transition as ZVRS chief operating officer; ZVRS Chief Compliance Officer Greg Hlibok named chief legal officer ... At Quebecor, Pierre Karl Péladeau resumes as president-CEO, succeeding Pierre Dion, named chairman of Quebecor Media and director of Quebecor; Brian Mulroney remains Quebecor chairman.
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FTC said (see 1702160071) Acting Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen hired Tad Lipsky, now at Latham & Watkins, as acting director-Competition Bureau, effective March 6; succeeding Deborah Feinstein, who was appointed by then-FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, who herself is leaving the agency (see 1702080078); Alan Devlin, who was attorney-adviser to Ohlhausen and joined the agency in 2015 from Latham & Watkins, named acting deputy director of the bureau; and Svetlana Gans, an attorney-adviser and litigation attorney within the bureau, becomes Ohlhausen's chief of staff.
Google hires Gregory McCray, ex-Aero Communications, to lead Access, which includes Google Fiber ... Avnet's Gerry Fay, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, steps down to pursue other opportunities; regional presidents now will report directly to CEO William Amelio ... Fuze appoints Colin Doherty, ex-Dyn, as CEO; founder and former-CEO Steve Kokinos named executive chairman ... CEO Quest, advising tech CEOs, adds Noel Heiks, ex-Nuvotronics, as managing director for mid-Atlantic region ... Strategy Analytics promotes Paul Brown to director-user experience projects.
Lobbyist registrations: Dish Network and Univision Management Co., Ballard Partners, both effective Feb. 1 ... NCTA, Akin Gump, effective Jan. 2 ... Nexstar, Wiley Rein, effective Jan. 1 ... Tesla, on issues including legislation on autonomous cars and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, Burton Strategy Group, effective Jan. 1 ... EventTracker data threat protection firm, Sonoran Policy Group, effective Jan. 1 ... Health IT firm Document Storage Systems for itself, effective Jan. 1.