Communications Personals
Lyft moves in Washington: Lauren Belive promoted to director-federal government relations team; Jake Swanton, ex-Pew, hired as senior federal public policy manager; and Tommy Leander, who worked for Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., joins as federal public policy associate ... Returning to Jenner & Block as partner is Michael Wolf, ex-Aon; he works on transactions including involving IP ... Discovery Communications moves: Francis Keeling, ex-Spotify, joins as senior vice president-international digital; Jay Trinidad, running Discovery Northern Asia, now also managing director-digital ventures; and Eugene Huang, ex-American Express, hired as senior vice president-technology.
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Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., retiring, effective at the end of this Congress ... President Donald Trump judicial nominations include Ryan Bounds, assistant U.S. attorney for Oregon, to 9th U.S. Court of Appeals; and Gregory Katsas, deputy assistant to the president and his deputy counsel, to the D.C. Circuit; Katsas previously was at Jones Day, at DOJ, and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, and he would restore a 7-4 D.C. Circuit split between Democratic and Republican appointees among active judges; plus Trump nominations sent to the Senate including for Jeff Tien Han Pon to be director, Office of Personnel Management, for a four-year term.
Named as arbitrators of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework: Chris Hoofnagle, Travis LeBlanc, Omer Tene, John Verdi and others ... Measure adds to board Penny Pritzker, PSP Capital, an affiliate of which invests in the drone company ... Optiv Security cybersecurity firm adds to board Dave DeWalt, ex-FireEye, as vice chairman, and ex-CIA Director David Petraeus ... Drone USA adds Len Harac, Harac Consulting, to the board.
Cable Center names as first-year Innovation Laureates: Baker Media founder Bridget Baker; Comcast co-founder Julian Brodsky; InterMedia Partners Managing Partner Leo Hindery; Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries; CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney; AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan; HBO Executive Vice President-Corporate Communications Quentin Schaffer; Discovery Communication CEO David Zaslav; and CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker.