BakerHostetler expands advertising, marketing and digital media team with partners Randal Shaheen and Amy Ralph Mudge, both from Venable ... Zoom Telephonics appoints Joseph Lee Wytanis, ex-Flextronics, president-chief operating officer, President-CEO-Chairman Frank Manning remains chairman-CEO ... NPR names Nancy Barnes, from Houston Chronicle, senior vice president-news and editorial director, effective Nov. 28 ... Public Safety Network hires Andrew Delaney, ex-FirstNet, as director-business development and advisory services, new role ... Infovista hires Jon Howes, ex-Oracle, senior vice president-global channel sales.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pa moves special counsel Nirali Patel to wireline adviser, replacing Jay Schwarz, who returns to Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis; Preston Wise, from Wireline Bureau, joins Pai’s office as acting special counsel … Google hires Julie Kearney, ex-CTA, as head-regulatory affairs, Loon … Palo Alto Networks names Amit Singh, from Google, president, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Mark Anderson … Somos promotes Mary Retka to vice president-industry relations.
In combining, Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies appoint Harris Chairman-CEO-President William Brown chairman-CEO and L3 counterpart Christopher Kubasik vice chairman, president-chief operating officer for first two years, then Brown moves to executive chairman and Kubasik to CEO-chairman ... Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology personnel changes: Alvaro Bedoya becomes founding director and director-Federal Legislation Clinic; Laura Moy moves up to center director, Katie Evans to director-communications and operations, and Clare Garvie, face recognition expert, to senior associate.
Broadcast analyst Marci Ryvicker and some of her colleagues from Wells Fargo have moved to Wolfe Research ... RapidSOS hires Tom Guthrie, ex-2HU, as vice president-operations ... Toshiba Memory appoints Stacy Smith, ex-Intel, executive chairman.
Comcast hires Christin McMeley from Davis Wright as senior vice president-chief privacy and legal information security officer, Comcast Cable, new post ... FCC announces David Sibley, University of Texas-Austin, is outside economic consultant for task force coordinating review of proposed T-Mobile buying Sprint ... CBS promotes Dana McClintock to executive vice president-chief communications officer, succeeding Gil Schwartz, retiring, and moves Laurie Rosenfield to chief people officer, new post.
R Street Institute taps term-limited Montana Public Service Commissioner Travis Kavulla as director-energy and environmental policy, effective January ... Ben Gris, ex-FTC, joins Shearman & Sterling as partner-antitrust … Open Access Technologies appoints Ken Breen, ex-Ebsco, president ... Threat Stack hires David Link, ex-Everquote, as vice president-customer experience ... Ssimwave video delivery firm appoints Lois Norris, ex-InvestorCOM, as chief financial officer ... Public Safety Technology Alliance adds Axon as member and appoints its CEO-founder, Rick Smith, to board.
As part of integration planning for pending acquisition of 21 Century Fox, Disney names Peter Rice chairman, Disney Television and co-chair, Disney Media Networks; Dana Walden, chairman, Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment; John Landgraf, chairman, FX Networks and FX Productions; and Gary Knell, chairman, National Geographic Partners; Ben Sherwood, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney|ABC Television Group, remains in role until acquisition closes ... Fox, company to be spun off in Disney/21st Century Fox, names executive vice presidents Danny O’Brien, from General Electric, also head-government relations; Hope Hicks, ex-White House, also chief communications officer; Rita Tuzon, also corporate general counsel; Jill Ratner, chief litigation counsel; and Kevin Lord, human resources.
Entertainment lawyer Robert Schwartz, ex-Irell & Manella, joins Quinn Emanuel as partner ... O’Melveny announces Hassen Sayeed, ex-Paul Hastings, as partner-intellectual property and technology ... Jeffer Mangels names Rex Hwang, ex-Glaser Weil, as partner-patent, trademark and copyright ... Wilkinson Barker taps from Comcast Michael Nelson as senior adviser.
Entertainment Software Association names Senior Vice President-General Counsel Stanley Pierre-Louis interim president-CEO; Michael Gallagher steps down from that role ... Covington promotions to partners include Alice Ahn, patent litigation; Shara Aranoff, intellectual property; Ashden Fein, cybersecurity; Laura Kim, privacy; Kevin King, communications among other areas; Cortlin Lannin, antitrust and consumer; Micaela McMurrough, cybersecurity and data privacy; Adrian Perry, IP and data ... Technet hires from California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues Courtney Jensen as executive director-California and Southwest.
Mintz boosts intellectual property practice with Michael Graif, ex-Curtis, Mallet-Prevos, as member ... Twilio hires as vice president-global policy and regulatory affairs Sanford Reback, ex-Akamai, and as head-regulatory affairs for North America, Rebecca Thompson, ex-Competitive Carriers Association, which taps Alexi Maltas, from Hogan Lovells, to replace her ... Crown Media Family Networks appoints Daryl Berg, ex-Sound Canyon, vice president-music strategies and licensing.