Stephanie Roy, ex-Steptoe & Johnson, joins Perkins Coie as a partner, Technology Transactions and Privacy practice and with Communications industry group ... Virtual new directors are Steve Jones, ex-Association of Cable Communicators, which was taken over by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (see 1702210049), and Melanie Tringali, ex-Cambridge Network, respectively, of client services and marketing communications, and promotions include Stacey Comito to vice president-marketing communications.
21st Century Fox General Counsel Gerson Zweifach stepping down following anticipated early 2019 close of asset sale to Disney, returning to Williams & Connolly ... Kaya Singleton, ex-Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, joins Entertainment Software Association as associate director-federal government affairs ... Ofcom names Mansoor Hanif, ex-BT, chief technology officer ... Denielle Pemberton-Heard leaves PBS for Diversified Search as general counsel-managing director.
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly announces departure of his chief of staff-media adviser, Brooke Ericson, effective Oct. 31 ... Oath President and Chief Operating Officer Guru Gowrappan becomes CEO, effective Oct. 1, as founder Tim Armstrong remains strategic adviser through year-end ... American Public Television taps from PBS Shawn Halford as vice president of exchange content and digital services, succeeding Chris Funkhouser, retiring.
Covington hires ex-FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny as partner, Antitrust and Competition Law and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice groups while ex-FBI Office of Legal Counsel Trisha Anderson, national security and cybersecurity lawyer, rejoins as a partner, also focusing on matters including surveillance and data privacy, and information technology and communications firms ... With Intel buying NetSpeed Systems, NetSpeed team joining Intel's Silicon Engineering Group led by Jim Keller; NetSpeed CEO Sundari Mitra continues leading her team as Intel vice president reporting to Keller.
With CBS Chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves departing (see 1809100026), Joseph Ianniello moves up to president-acting CEO; directors Moonves, David Andelman, Joseph Califano, Charles Gifford, Leonard Goldberg, Arnold Kopelson and Doug Morris voluntarily resign; and elected to the board are Candace Beinecke, of Hughes Hubbard; Barbara Byrne, ex-Barclays; Brian Goldner, Hasbro; Richard Parsons, ex-Time Warner; Susan Schuman, consulting firm SyPartners and Strauss Zelnick, Zelnick Media Capital.
Derek Teslik, ex-Wilkinson Barker, joins Gray Miller as senior counsel ... Cathy Yao leaves MoffettNathanson, becomes Diamond Hill Capital Management telecom analyst ... Space Foundation selects Thomas Dorame, retired Army, as vice president-strategic operations ... Glen Echo Group adds Emma Christman, ex-Dewey Square Group, as senior associate; and as associates Anne Keeney, ex-American Medical Group Association, and Charlie Vinopal, ex-Rational 360 ... Charter Communications announces Kelly Atkinson, ex-Rogers Communications, as head of marketing ... Raycom Media names Eric Duncan, ex-KXXV Waco, vice president-general manager, KOLD-TV Tucson ... InSpeed Networks adds branding consultant Sandra Hill as chief marketing officer and Ken VanDerHorst, ex-Motorola, as vice president-sales.
Public Knowledge appoints Charlotte Slaiman, ex-FTC Anticompetitive Practices Division, policy counsel ... Lauren Dart, ex-office of Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., joins office of Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., as communications director ... National Electrical Manufacturers Association names Philip Squair, ex-National Propane Gas Association, head-advocacy and lobbying initiatives ... ExteNet appoints Jim Hyde CEO, succeeding Ross Manire, retiring ... Open-IX taps Robert DeVita, ex-Mejeticks, as executive director.
NCTA hires Saul Hernandez, deputy chief of staff for Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., as vice president-government relations ... Chamber of Digital Commerce promotes Amy Davine Kim to chief policy officer, and Paul Brigner, ex-Blockchain Technology and Ecosystem Design Research Center at Georgetown University, becomes director-technology policy ... Auburn University hires from George Washington University cyber expert Frank Cilluffo to direct Charles D. McCrary Institute for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Systems ... Nielsen taps David Anderson, ex-Honeywell, as chief financial officer, succeeding Jamere Jackson, resigns to pursue an outside opportunity outside.
Carmen Scurato leaves National Hispanic Media Coalition, becomes senior policy counsel for Free Press ... Mozilla announces Alan Davidson, ex-New America, returns as vice president-global policy, trust and security ... Globalstar promotes Dave Kagan to CEO and Jay Monroe to executive chairman ... Netflix hires Christie Fleischer, ex-Disney, as global head-consumer products ... Hudson Institute names Ann Marie Hauser, ex-Senate Republican Conference, vice president-public affairs.
Sanmina CEO Bob Eulau resigns, board member Michael Clarke replaces him, effective Oct. 1; Executive Chairman Jure Sola leads company in interim ... Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies appoints from Comtech Kim Robert Scovill as executive director, succeeding George Rice ... CBS taps Philip Wiser, ex-Hearst, as chief technology officer ... Andreessen Horowitz hires Angela Strange, ex-Google, as general partner.