Communications Personals
Verizon board promotes (see 1806080050) Executive Vice President/President-Global Networks/Chief Technology Officer Hans Vestberg to succeed Lowell McAdam as CEO, effective Aug. 1; McAdam will be executive chairman through retirement at year's end and then non-executive chairman; Executive Vice President/President-Global Operations John Stratton to retire by Dec. 31, stepping down from this job now and becoming strategic adviser reporting to McAdam ... FTC Chairman Joseph Simons appoints from Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General Andrew Katsaros as the commission’s acting IG, succeeding Roslyn Mazer, who retired from the federal government at the end of May.
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Columbia Law professor Tim Wu won't seek New York's attorney general office after last month "mulling" a run (see 1805180039) for the seat left by Eric Schneiderman (D) and now filled on an acting basis by Barbara Underwood (D), the net neutrality advocate tweeted Thursday ... Evine Live hires from Rogers Media's Today’s Shopping Choice division Anne Martin-Vachon as president, effective Aug. 1.
Nomination sent to the Senate for Peter Feldman to be consumer product safety commissioner for seven-year term from Oct. 27, 2019, and nomination withdrawn for Charles Cook to be Department of Homeland Security chief financial officer ... With Altice NV separation as planned from Altice USA, Altice NV is now Altice Europe NV; Patrick Drahi named executive director of that board; and the USA board has Drahi, Charles Stewart and Gerrit Jan Bakker, with Drahi chairman, Stewart continuing as co-president and chief financial officer, Altice USA and Jan Bakker as treasurer, Altice Europe ... Tessco adds Dick’s Sporting Goods Chief Technology Officer Paul Gaffney to its board.