Lincoln Network hires Zach Graves from R Street Institute as head-policy and managing director of new Washington office ... Accenture hires cybersecurity expert Anup Ghosh, ex-Invincea, as managing director, Accenture Security ... Gray Television Executive Vice President-Chief Digital and Media Technology Officer Jason Effinger leaving in coming weeks to spend more time with family ... WITF Public Media (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) President-CEO Kathleen Pavelko retires, effective Dec. 31 ... Discovery hires Alex Wellen, ex-CNN Worldwide, as president-general manager, Motor Trend Group.
At FTC, Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter tweets that she hires Caroline Holland, ex-Mozilla Foundation, as competition adviser, and Rohit Chopra adds Erie Meyer, ex-U.S. Digital Service, as a technologist, which Chopra says is a new post for a commissioner's office ... Manatt Phelps elects Donna Wilson, who chairs privacy and cybersecurity practice, to succeed Bill Quicksilver as CEO-managing partner, effective July 1, 2019, when Quicksilver becomes managing partner emeritus ... CBS starts CBS Experiences experiential events division, naming Rich Lobel its executive vice president-managing director.
An Open Society Foundation Leadership in Government Fellowship goes to Mignon Clyburn, ex-FCC commissioner (see this section of the June 8 issue); tenure is for a year through next June; she will "make the case for eliminating the predatory telephone rate regime that currently exists for inmate calling services" ... Sinclair hires Brian Bark, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as vice president-chief information officer, new post, and moves up Mike Kralec to vice president-technical operations and deputy chief technology officer ... BSA|The Software Alliance hiresBrandon Consolvo, ex-aide to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as director-legislative strategy ... Airbeem over-the-top content distribution platform adds Neil Berry, ex-Comcast, as chief revenue officer ... Ted Hand, Cox Media, appointed to Society of Broadcast Engineers board, replacing Barry Thomas, who resigns from term ending fall 2019.
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.
Internet Association hires from Entertainment Software Association Jon Berroya as senior vice president-general counsel, succeeding Gail Slater, who went to White House (see this section of the June 7 issue) ... Wednesday was last day at the FCC for outgoing Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, she tweeted and her office confirmed to us, saying she's not yet announcing her next move ... Norton Rose Global Cyber Risk Group adds privacy and cybersecurity lawyers Chris Cwalina, ex-Holland & Knight, as partner and global co-head of cyber risk; Jeewon Serrato, ex-Shearman & Sterling, as partner and head-data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, U.S.; and Steven Roosa, also ex-H&K, as senior counsel and leading data lab.
Fitbit Chief Financial Officer William Zerella departing, succeeded by Ronald Kisling, promoted to CFO ... Scarinci Hollenbeck hires patent lawyer Jason LaBerteaux from Alix, Yale as counsel, Intellectual Property practice group ... President Donald Trump appointments include Gail Slater (see 1802150048) as special assistant to the president-economic policy.
AT&T moves up Ronnie Dedman to president, AT&T Arkansas, succeeding Ed Drilling, who becomes senior vice president-AT&T National Regulatory External Affairs, managing state regulation for the telco nationwide ... Common Sense hires Jillisa Bronfman, who oversaw University of California law school Privacy and Technology Project, as privacy counsel; Samira Sine, founder of VCue TV Asia, named New York director ... Discovery adds at TLC Rick Holzman, a consultant who now returns to the company, as senior vice president-programming and strategy, working on multi-platform issues ... IBM hires Jeremy Berkowitz, ex-Deloitte, as principal, Promontory Financial Group privacy practice ... Glu Mobile hires Chuck Elberti, ex-Credit Suisse Labs, as senior vice president-revenue platform; he had previously also worked for Glu.
Viacom's Cyma Zarghami stepping down as president, Nickelodeon Group; Viacom Media Networks Chief Operating Officer Sarah Levy leads the brand on interim basis ... In Microsoft buying GitHub for $7.5 billion, acquirer says open source expert and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Nat Friedman, founder of Xamarin, was named GitHub CEO; outgoing CEO Chris Wanstrath named Microsoft technical fellow to work on strategic software initiatives, reporting to Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie ... Palo Alto Networks board hires Nikesh Arora, ex-SoftBank, as chairman-CEO, succeeding Mark McLaughlin, named vice chairman.
Recording Academy President-CEO Neil Portnow decides not to extend his contract expiring in July 2019 ... Windstream adds from British Telecom Thomas Whitehead as vice president-federal government affairs, leading advocacy before the FCC, Rural Utilities Service and Congress ... Educational Media Foundation CEO Mike Novak to retire "in the coming months" ... Disney hires full time Anna Robertson, who had been working for company, as vice president-growth and partnerships, ABC Owned Television Stations, new post, and company promotes Cornelia Frame to vice president-casting and talent relations, Disney Channel.
With Association of National Advertisers buying Data & Marketing Association, formerly the Direct Marketing Association, integration to be complete July 1; ANA CEO Bob Liodice says DMA will become an ANA division headed by DMA CEO Tom Benton ... Sierra Wireless President-CEO-Director Jason Cohenour retires; Chair Kent Thexton named interim CEO and Cohenour advises him until June 30 ... Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Spectrum Organization Director Alan Lewis retires, with ceremony held Thursday at DISA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.