Communications Personals
FTC says Chairman Joseph Simons sworn in, which spokesman says occurred at agency headquarters by FTC Secretary Donald Clark; Noah Phillips, Rebecca Slaughter and Rohit Chopra to be sworn in later this week; and Christine Wilson takes office when Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen leaves ... DLA Piper hires Grace Koh, ex-National Economic Council (see 1802150048), to Telecom practice as partner; expertise includes media and technology policy, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence ... With Cisco selling Service Provider Video Software Solutions business to Permira, which will create rebranded company focused on pay-TV video, Abe Peled, adviser to Permira Funds, named chairman of the new company.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) nominations include World Resources Institute Director-Utility Innovation Letha Tawney for portion of unexpired four-year term on Public Utility Commission ending May 31, 2020, filling vacancy of Lisa Hardie (see 1804130024); Senate Rules Committee is scheduled to consider the nominations May 22 ... Regulatory Commission of Alaska adding Commissioner Antony Scott, an economist who worked at Anchorage Municipal Light & Power and was appointed by Gov. Bill Walker (I).
CBS appoints Laurie Rosenfield, ex-MediaLink, senior vice president-people development, human resources ... Salem Media hires Gary Spurgeon, ex-Radio One, as senior vice president-special projects, broadcast division ... Univision Communications appoints Liz Blacker, ex-iHeartMedia, senior vice president-branded content revenue ... Gamco adds from an affiliate, where they covered companies for investors as "sell-side" analysts, to now advise the firm on its investments Sergey Dluzhevskiy in telecom, and Adam Trivison, for areas including gaming and payment technologies ... L3 Technologies adds John Kim, ex-SAB Capital, as vice president-investor relations and analytics ... TVU Networks taps Rafael Castillo, ex-Snell Advanced Media, as general manager-Latin America.
News Media Alliance elects Terry Kroeger, Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media, chairman, succeeding Michael Klingensmith, Star Tribune, who becomes past chair ... New members of CompTIA board: James Afdahl, GED Testing Service; Toni Clayton-Hine, Xerox; Jason Magee, ConnectWise; John Scola, SAP; and Raja Singh, Verizon ... Zoom Telephonics elects Derek Elder, Sky Advisors, a director.
Lobbyist registrations: Digital payments platform firm Sipree, Allon Advocacy, effective April 24 ... IT contracting firm NMR Consulting, Federal Advocates, effective April 15 ... Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, Husch Blackwell Strategies, effective April 1 ... Payfone, Monument Policy Group, effective April 1 ... Shield AI, c6 Strategies, effective April 1 ... Red Hat, Rasky Partners, effective April 1 ... WOW Media Network, Wilmer Cutler, effective March 16 ... Etsy, Public Private Strategies, effective Feb. 9 ... Bsquare, Madison Government Affairs, effective Feb. 6 ... Intuit, Thomas Hughes, effective Feb. 1 ... Thumb Cellular, Gwendolyn O'Brien, effective Jan. 1.