FCC hires Matthew Duchesne, ex-U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as chief, Office of Native Affairs and Policy; acting Chief Lyle Ishida remains at the agency ... FCC members appoint Commissioner Brendan Carr to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service and Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations (see 1711130035); Carr succeeds FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, vacating those positions; Carr and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel join Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services because of their commission positions ... TiVo board elects Enrique Rodriguez, ex-AT&T Entertainment Group, president-CEO and names him to the board; he succeeds Thomas Carson, retiring and leaving the board, staying as adviser through Q1.
Rivada adds David Hendon to lead "pursuit of open access wholesale wireless opportunities" in the U.K., where he advised Ofcom until early this year; XM Satellite founding general counsel Joseph Titlebaum named Rivada Networks general counsel ... Fiber Broadband Association President-CEO Heather Burnett Gold retires Sept. 30 ... Intel adds from AMD Raja Koduri as chief architect, senior vice president of newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group and general manager of new edge computing initiative.
FirstNet President TJ Kennedy leaving, effective at year's end, to pursue other opportunities in the private sector ... Florida public service commissioners elect Commissioner Art Graham chairman for two-year term beginning Jan. 2; he has been chair in the past, including 2014-16; Julie Imanuel Brown is chairman through Jan. 2 and her commissioner term ends Jan. 1, 2019 ... In more changes at NPR (see 1711020028), it says CEO Jarl Mohn takes "temporary medical leave due to health issues related to his heart surgery in March"; board asks Chief Operating Officer Loren Mayor to manage day-to-day operations, as she did during Mohn's past medical leave.
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., hires from office of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Alex Damato as tech adviser ... House Commerce Committee adds Jon Adame, ex-JM Capital Strategies, as legislative counsel for House Communications Subcommittee ... Philip Corwin ends Virtualaw and is hired by Verisign as policy counsel; says he resigns from ICANN Business Constituency and from seat representing it on the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council; and remains co-chair of working groups on Curative Rights Protections for International Intergovernmental Organizations, and on Rights Protection Measures in all global top-level domains ... Ofcom's Grainne Morrissey joins Squire Patton as senior associate, Communications Practice, working on regulatory, competition and e-communications issues.
Rockwell Automation hires Chris Nardecchia, ex-Amgen, as senior vice president-information technology and chief information officer, new post ... Meredith promotes Dina Nathanson to senior vice president-human resources ... Polycom taps Jim Cullinan, ex-Microsoft, for new post of vice president-buzz and brand ... Lobbyist registrations: OneWeb, via WorldVu Development, Strategies 360, effective Oct. 19 ... Twitter, Integrated Solutions Group, effective Oct. 15 ... Software tools firm Trollhetta, American Defense International, effective Oct. 1 ... US HF Cellular Communications, Mack Strategies, effective Sept. 15.
NCTA reorganization after cancellation of its trade show: Brian Dietz promoted to senior vice president-strategic communications; Rob Stoddard moves to senior vice president-industry and association affairs, managing public affairs, member relations, and NCTA meetings and special events ... Jim Henson Co. promotes Halle Stanford to president-television ... Newtec names Steve Mills, ex-Airbus global vice president-sales ... the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association hires Brian O’Hara, ex-NARUC, as senior director-regulatory issues, telecommunications and broadband ... Video encoding firm Vitec promotes Mark D'Addio to senior vice president-sales and marketing.
With Senior Vice President of News-Editorial Director Mike Oreskes resigning "because of inappropriate behavior" (see report) at request of NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, Vice President-News Programming and Operations Chris Turpin named interim leader of the newsroom ... Comcast names California vice presidents, moving within the company: David Brown for business services; Ted Girdner for strategic initiatives and business development; Beth Hester for external affairs; and Jeff Votaw for technical operations ... IHeartMedia hires Michele Madansky, ex-Yahoo, as executive vice president-insights, research and data analytics, effective Nov. 27.
Davis Wright hires from Wireless Infrastructure Association Van Bloys as associate in communications group working on wireless and litigation ... Commerce Assistant Secretary-Administration and Chief Financial Officer Ellen Herbst, performing nonexclusive duties of deputy department secretary, retires from federal government and is hired by University System of Maryland as vice chancellor-administration and finance, effective Nov. 27 ... Among Proskauer Rose promotions to partner Chantel Febus, representing online travel services, media and entertainment and others ... News Media Alliance hires Rebecca Frank, ex-Burson-Marsteller, as director-research and insights.
In Samsung Electronics "leadership for the next phase of its growth," Presidents Kinam Kim, HS Kim and DJ Koh succeed Vice Chairman Oh-Hyun Kwon and Presidents Boo-Keun Yoon and Jong-Kyun Shin as heads of DS, CE and IM divisions; President SH Lee leaves post as chief financial officer and is recommended by outside board members to be chairman to succeed Kwon in March, the first time the company will separate chairman and CEO posts; also in March, the three new division heads will also join the board, on which Kwon, Yoon and Shin remain until then.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai hires from Gibson Dunn Ashley Boizelle as deputy general counsel, with responsibility for administrative law ... FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel taps Umair Javed, ex-Wiley Rein, as legal adviser on wireless and international matters ... Bert Gomez, who recently left Univision (see 1709290028), joins Becker & Poliakoff as senior corporate and government relations director.