Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen appoints Alden Abbott, who has worked at Heritage Foundation Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, acting general counsel; acting FTC General Counsel David Shonka left for private practice (see this section of this publication's March 27 edition); Heritage says Abbott has left that organization to work for the commission, where he also worked in a past stint ... Nobuaki Kurumatani, ex-CVC Asia Pacific Japan and former Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, takes helm at Toshiba as first chairman-CEO to be hired from outside the company in more than 50 years, replacing Satoshi Tsunakawa, who becomes president-chief operating officer.
Lobbyist registrations: iWireless, The Madison Group, effective March 15 ... Harris Corp., Baker Donelson, effective March 1 ... IBM, Crossroads Strategies, effective March 1 ... Newsmax Media, TeleMedia Policy, effective Feb. 9 ... Athlete social media community Strava, Franklin Square Group, effective Feb. 5.
Winners of NAB board elections: Hartley Adkins, iHeartMedia; David Bevins, Connoisseur Media; Justin Chase, Beasley Media Group; Larry Fuss, South Seas Broadcasting; Kim Guthrie, Cox Media Group; Margaret Perkins, First Natchez Radio Group; Dhruv Prasad, Townsquare Media; Tony Richards, Federated Media; Tom Walker, Mid-West Family Broadcasting; Jim Watkins, WHUR-FM Washington; John Zimmer, Zimmer Radio ... NAB TV Board elections: Emily Barr, Graham Media Group; Jimmy Goodmon, Capitol Broadcasting; Hilton Howell, Gray Television; Bert Medina, WPLG, Miami; Ralph Oakley, Quincy Media; Louis Wall, SagamoreHill Broadcasting ... Margaret Tobey, NBCUniversal, appointed to NAB TV Board, filling seat previously occupied by Mitch Rose ... Dell promotes Allison Dew to chief marketing officer, replacing Jeremy Burton, leaving the company ... New on National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications board: Joiava Philpott, Cox Communications, becomes chairperson; new board members are Navin Kamath, HBO; Freddy Rolon, ESPN Deportes; and Jason Williams, Viacom.
Debra O’Connell, ex-Disney/ABC consolidated advertising sales group, named president-general manager, WABC-TV New York City ... Alexander Pease, ex-Snyder’s-Lance, becomes CommScope executive vice president-chief financial officer ... Netflix appoints former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to its board, which expands to 11 members.
Comcast Chief Product Officer Chris Satchell resigning, citing personal reasons ... Changes at Ericsson: Xavier Dedullen, ex-LafargeHolcim, named senior vice president-chief legal officer and head of group function legal affairs and compliance, replacing Nina Macpherson, retiring March 31; Erik Ekudden, chief technology officer, adds title of senior vice president ... Akamai Chairman George Conrades retires, effective June 1; lead independent director Frederic Salerno becomes chairman.
Acting FTC General Counsel David Shonka leaves to join a private law practice ... TV technology firm TVU Networks names David Jorba, ex-Vizrt, executive vice president-managing director, Europe ... At ComScore, Chair Susan Riley leaves board effective immediately, with new chair and, if needed, a lead independent director, to be named upon the conclusion of the company's search for a new CEO; Dale Fuller, MobiSocial, joins board ... Cable ad management firm Viamedia names Frank Connolly, ex- Harris Interactive and Modern Media, chief financial officer ... Crown Media Family Networks promotes Penny Perry to senior vice president-casting ... Sinclair Broadcast promotes Jennifer Rieffer to general manager, WDKY Lexington, Kentucky ... Tom Cibrowski, ex-ABC News, named president-general manager, KGO-TV San Francisco.
Pandora hires Parita Shah, ex-Millennium Challenge Corp., as head-public affairs, government relations and public policy team ... Raycom Media elevates Hatton Weeks to vice president-general manager, KAIT Jonesboro, Arkansas ... Alef Mobitech adds to board Mike Mulica, who has worked at Openwave, Phone.com, RealNetworks, Synchronoss and elsewhere.
USTelecom hires Mike Saperstein, ex-Frontier Communications, as vice president-law and policy, effective April 9, and Kelly Misselwitz, ex-aide to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., as vice president-government affairs, effective March 22 ... Claude Aiken is departing as Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's wireline legal adviser, they confirm; he reportedly is to become president of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association; WISPA and Aiken declined to comment ... Internet Association hires Jordan Haas, ex-International Trade Administration, as director-trade and international policy, succeeding Ari Giovenco, hired by Amazon.
BakerHostetler elects Paul Schmidt, leader of the firm’s tax practice, chair of the firm, effective Jan. 1, to succeed Steven Kestner, stepping down after 15 years ... Lee Meredith retires as vice president-general manager, WAFB Baton Rouge, Louisiana, effective March 30 ... Drone Alliance Europe names Christoph Raab executive director ... Senate confirms Kevin McAleenan as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, after being acting commissioner since Trump administration began ... Robert Selander, ex-Mastercard, joins Equifax board.
Texas Public Utility Commission hires John Paul Urban, ex-NRG Energy and who previously worked at PUC, as executive director, succeeding Brian Lloyd, resigned; and new titles: Chief Operating Officer Thomas Gleeson and Commission Counselor, Office of Policy and Docket Management Stephen Journeay. ... Also named co-chair of new Perkins Coie group (see this section of the March 20 issue of this publication) on advertising technology and privacy: Meredith Halama, a Commercial Litigation partner in the law firm’s Privacy & Security practice and Advertising, Marketing and Promotions group.