Intel promotes interim CEO Robert Swan to permanent position and names him to board; Vice President-Finance Todd Underwood becomes interim chief financial officer during search for CFO, a job Swan held ... Tesla Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja resigning, stays as adviser; Zach Kirkhorn rises to CFO ... Covington names William Stern, ex-Morrison Foerster, senior of counsel, class-action litigation practice, including entertainment, media and tech ... Greenberg Traurig adds to intellectual property litigation practice Scott Oliver, ex-Orrick Herrington, as shareholder.

House Commerce Committee ranking member Greg Walden, Oregon, hires for Republicans Zack Roday, ex-Republican Attorneys General Association, as communications director; and keeps other staff including as expected (see 1811230027) Robin Colwell as chief counsel, Communications Subcommittee ... Center for Democracy & Technology promotes Brian Wesolowski to vice president-external affairs; Maria Villamar, controller; Liz Woolery, deputy director-Free Expression Project; Tim Hoagland, lead designer and digital strategist; and Becca Jackson, events specialist and office assistant ... Consumer Watchdog Consumer Advocate John Simpson retiring, succeeded by Adam Scow, ex-Food & Water Watch ... Robyn Greene leaving Open Tech Institute to become Facebook privacy policy manager-law enforcement access and data protection ... House Homeland Security Committee ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., hires Nicole Hager, from Senate Finance Committee, as press secretary ... National Association of State Chief Information Officers taps Matt Pincus, ex-National Guard Association, as director-government affairs ... SpectraRep taps John McCoskey, ex-MPAA, as chief operating officer ... Discovery promotes Cindy Mori to vice president-global talent management and corporate talent development ... NIC's Robert Knapp resigns as chief operating officer ... Sinclair adds to board Benson Legg, ex-U.S. District Court in Baltimore ... Sckipio Technologies names Dan Artusi, ex-Intel, to board ... House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, New Jersey, names subcommittee vice chairs, including: Doris Matsui, California, Communications; Tony Cardenas, California, Consumer Protection; and Joseph Kennedy, Massachusetts, Oversight and Investigations ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California, names Democrats to new Modernization of Congress Select Committee: Chairman Derek Kilmer and Suzan DelBene, Washington; Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri; Zoe Lofgren, California; Mark Pocan, Wisconsin; and Mary Gay Scanlon, Pennsylvania.

Akin Gump names Karen Christian, ex-House Commerce Committee, as partner, congressional investigations practice ... Wolf Greenfield promotes intellectual property and patent litigation lawyer Greg Corbett to chair, litigation practice ... PayPal hires Philip Swartzfager, ex-office of then-Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, federal government relations manager ... Snap moves Chief Accounting Officer Lara Sweet to interim chief financial officer and principal financial officer until it replaces Tim Stone, resigning (see this section, Jan. 17).

Verrill Dana elects to partner attorneys including Geoffrey Why, telecom ... TELoIP announces Bernard Breton, formerly at Ericsson, as CEO, succeeding Roger Davis who continues on board ... SoftBank names Michelle Horn, ex-McKinsey, vice president-chief people officer ... IHeartMedia promotes Brad Hardin to chief operating officer, National Programming Group ... NPD Group hires Darren Person, ex-RELX Group, as chief data strategy officer.

Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Senate Commerce Committee staff changes: John Keast, ex-Wicker office, becomes staff director; Crystal Tully advances to deputy staff director; Steven Wall, ex-House Administration Committee, is general counsel; Rick VanMeter, Wicker communications director, same role; Brianna Manzelli elevated to deputy communications director; and, all from Wicker's office, senior policy directors include James Mazol, space subcommittee; and Olivia Trusty, Communications Subcommittee.

Information Technology Industry Council board elects from Electronic Transactions Association Jason Oxman, formerly with what was then CEA and now is CTA, as president-CEO, effective Feb. 28; at around that time, outgoing ITI chief Dean Garfield joins Netflix (see this section, Nov. 20); also at around that time, ETA will start searching for a new CEO; the group's Chairman-President Kevin Jones, Celero Commerce, will work with the association's staff.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) names Genevieve Shiroma to California Public Utilities Commission, replacing Carla Peterman, retiring ... AT&T promotes Trey Rabon to state president-North Carolina, succeeding Venessa Harrison, now president-Georgia ... Federal Street Strategies hires Derron Parks, ex-Samsung Electronics, as senior strategist ... Spectrum Consortium taps Sasha Javid, ex-Hogan Lovells, as chief operating officer.

American Enterprise Institute names Robert Doar, Morgridge fellow in poverty studies, president, succeeding Arthur Brooks (see this section, March 16) ... Permission.io announces Rob Gregory, ex-Whosay, as president ... Stack appoints Matt VanderZanden, ex-Facebook, chief strategy officer ... LiveXLive Media hires David Schulhof, ex-G2 Investment Group, as chief development officer ... Sinclair promotes Todd Ricke to general manager, WTVC Chattanooga, and oversees Sinclair provision of services to WFLI-TV Cleveland, Tennessee, under a joint sales agreement ... In acquiring The Coral Project, Vox Media hires current team including project head Andrew Losowsky ... ASTM names Klas Boivie, Sintef Manufacturing, to international board.

McGuireWoods Consulting adds Gregory Guice, ex-Akin Gump, as senior vice president-federal public affairs/senior counsel, McGuireWoods ... DLA Piper announces partners-intellectual property and technology Tracy Shapiro, ex-Wilson Sonsini, and Michael Jay, ex-Boies Schiller ... Stevens & Lee taps James MacDonald, ex-Ballard Spahr, to co-chair technology, telecom and life sciences ... T-Mobile US hires Ulf Ewaldsson, ex-Ericsson, as senior vice president-technology transformation (see 1901180024) ... Ohio Public Utilities Commissioner Thomas Johnson won’t seek reappointment; term expires April 10.

Venable hires for legislative and government affairs practice: Anne Kierig, ex-DLA Piper, as counsel-cybersecurity and privacy; Steve Vest, ex-Time Warner, as senior policy adviser; and Nick Choate, ex-Office of former Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., as policy adviser-telecom, cybersecurity and technology ... Duane Morris taps Kevin Anderson, ex-Wiley Rein, as partner-intellectual property.