Communications Personals
At FCC, Chairman Ajit Pai names Wayne Leighton chief, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, where he was acting chief; and Pai adds (see here) Andy Huckaba to Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee as a representative of city of Lenexa, Kansas, where he's a City Council member; Huckaba is vice chair, FCC Intergovernmental Advisory Committee; local officials had been concerned only one of them was on the full BDAC (see 1706010054) ... Financial Services Roundtable hires Adam Palmer, ex-FireEye, for cybersecurity, fraud and technology division, as vice president-cybersecurity risk management.
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TDS promotes to vice presidents Michelle Brukwicki, for financial analysis and strategic planning, and Anita Kroll as controller, succeeding Doug Chambers, moving to same post at TDS' U.S. Cellular ... Maryland Public Service Commission names John Borkoski, ex-Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., chief engineer and director-emergency management ... MoffettNathanson hires analyst Greg Melich, ex-Evercore ISI, as partner, leading new retailing vertical ... Linius Technologies video virtualization engine adds from Kodak Ken Ruck as executive vice president-Personalized Advertising Division.
ICANN changes, blogs CEO Göran Marby: Vice President-Meeting Operations Nick Tomasso elevated to managing director-Istanbul office (among the designated regional offices), effective Sept 1; David Olive, who led the Istanbul office since inception in 2013, moving back to Washington effective at the end of August to continue as senior vice president-policy development and support; Vice President-Policy Development and Governmental Advisory Committee Relations Olof Nordling retiring, effective July 31; Vice President-Stakeholder Engagement, Europe Jean-Jacques Sahel promoted to managing director-Brussels office; Rodrigo de la Parra is managing director-Montevideo, serving Latin America and Caribbean; Tarek Kamel remains managing director-Geneva; Duncan Burns remains managing director-Washington office; and Marby is managing director-Los Angeles.
Among those elected to board of the National Archives Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the National Archives and Records Administration, are Michael Powell, NCTA; in April, the group said Tom Wheeler, an ex-FCC chairman like Powell, rejoined the board ... Somos board adds Michael Day, ex-Disney, MTV Networks and others, as a director ... Akili Interactive Labs, neuroscience platform developer, hires Robert Perez, ex-Cubist Pharmaceuticals, as executive chairman, and adds Glenn Entis, ex-DreamWorks Interactive, and Noah Falstein, ex-Google, as executive advisers.
House Judiciary Committee adds Rep. Karen Handel, R-Ga. ... Fox News Channel signs soon-to-be former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, for political analysis on FNC and Fox Business Network beginning July 1 ... PayPal adds to board Ann Sarnoff, BBC Worldwide-Americas ... Lobbying registrations: Bot Home Automation, Invariant, effective June 6 ... SSL, Pinnacle Engineering and Management Solutions, effective May 15.