21st Century Fox promotes, effective with close of Disney transaction, Eric Shanks to CEO-Fox Sports; Mike Biard to president-operations and distribution, Paul Cheesbrough to chief technology officer and head-direct to consumer platforms, Marianne Gambelli to president-ad sales and Steve Tomsic to chief financial officer ... Richard Sofield, ex-DOJ, joins Wiley Rein’s National Security Practice as partner ... IHeartMedia hires Chuck Deskins, ex- C3 Media Advertising, senior vice president-inside sales.
CenturyLink promotes Clay Bailey to senior vice president-public policy and government affairs, succeeding John Jones, retiring ... Information Technology Industry Council hires Jennie Westbrook, ex-Precision Strategies, and Clare Sahin, ex-Signal Group, as, respectively vice president-external affairs and manager-state and local affairs ... Kramer Levin taps Harry Rubin from Ropes & Gray as partner-head of the firm’s new Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions practice ... CTIA hires from The Pew Charitable Trusts Dori Kreiger as executive director.
Space Foundation adds Richard Cooper, ex-SAS Institute, as vice president-strategic communications and outreach ... Comcast Spotlight names Brendan Condon, AdMore, chief revenue officer ... BeckTV appoints Matt Weiss, ex-CEI, senior engineer-vice president, Eastern region.
Shuanise Washington, ex-Washington Solutions, joins The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications as president-CEO ... Evolution Equity Partners announces Karthik Subramanian, ex-Cisco, as partner-cybersecurity, enterprise software, IoT, cloud and analytics ... Kore.ai names Michael Eckhoff, ex-Greenway Health, chief revenue officer ... Monument Policy Group hires Stacey Hutchinson, ex-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as principal ... U.S. Black Chambers President Ron Busby becomes AT&T Supplier Diversity Think Tank member ... Redbox hires Chris Yates, ex-Dell and CinemaNow, as general manager-Redbox On Demand, new post.
Christine Wilson, ex-Delta, becomes FTC commissioner, replacing Maureen Ohlhausen (see this section of the Sept. 26 issue) ... FTC Chairman Joe Simon names Gail Levine, leaving Uber, Competition Bureau deputy director ... TechNet names David London, leaving ofo, as vice president-state policy and politics ... Tegna promotes Akin Harrison to senior vice president-general counsel and secretary, becoming member leadership team on retirement of Todd Mayman, executive vice president-chief legal and administrative officer, in early 2019.
Maureen Ohlhausen exits commissioner post at FTC, as of Sept. 25, when term ended ... Wireless Infrastructure Association promotes Zac Champ and Don Andrew to vice presidents, respectively, government affairs and spectrum management ... Facebook hires from Computer and Communications Industry Association Bijan Madhani as privacy and public policy manager ... Interactive Advertising Bureau names media consultant Susan Hogan senior vice president-research and measurement ... Michael Brown leaves Symantec, becomes DOD's Defense Innovation Unit managing director.
DLA Piper names Angela DeMahy, ex-FCC International Bureau, as associate, Telecommunications Practice ... Sheppard Mullin adds three to Intellectual Property practice: from Baker Botts partner Harper Batts and special counsel Chris Ponder, and from Intel senior associate Jeffrey Liang ... Houlihan Lokey adds to Technology, Media and Telecom Group Roy Kabla, ex-Nomura, as group managing director-global co-head and Vikram Pandit, ex-JPMorgan, as group director.
SoftBank hires former Deputy Commerce Secretary Bruce Andrews, leaving Rock Creek Global Advisors, as vice president-global public policy ... Evolution Digital announces Cash Hagen, ex-WideOpenWest, as chief operating officer ... Library of Congress Kluge Center adds scholars including Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California communications professor ... Red Hat appoints Kevin Murai, ex-Synnex, to board
ExteNet Systems names Richard Coyle, ex-Digital Bridge Holdings, chief development officer, succeeding Eric Lekacz, leaving to pursue new opportunities ... PacketViper announces Don Gray, ex-VigilantMinds, as chief technology officer ... Meiotic hires from Cisco Justin Nimergood as chief revenue officer ... Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission appoints Michael Holko, ex-state Office for Information Technology, director, Office of Cybersecurity Compliance and Oversight ... President Donald Trump to nominate outgoing Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., as director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
Cort Bush, ex-Senate Commerce Committee staff, named senior director at NBCUniversal Media ... CBS TV Stations Group moves Justin Draper to vice president-general manager, CBS Television Stations’ Sacramento area properties, KOVR, Stockton and KMAX-TV, Sacramento and CBSSacramento.com ... SoundExchange promotes Richard Conlon to chief corporate development officer ... WWE names Brian Nurse, ex-Nestlé Waters North America, senior vice president-general counsel and secretary.