Squire Patton adds Tony Scott, federal chief information officer under then-President Barack Obama, as senior data privacy and cybersecurity adviser ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hires from U.S. Chamber of Commerce Lindsay Bembenek as communications director ... National Association of Manufacturers hires include Michael Short, ex-Trump White House, as senior director-strategic communications, and Andrew Clark, ex-Independent Journal Review, as manager-digital communications, and NAM promotes others in Washington, including Keith Smith to senior vice president-public affairs and mobilization.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Nick Degani, who was Pai's senior counsel, acting general counsel; Jennifer Tatel, who has been doing that job, departing for the private sector, no specific plans announced ... Sprint hires from Vodafone Ivo Rook to newly created position of senior vice president-IoT, effective Jan. 1; and he's liaison officer to SoftBank Group of companies involved in IoT ... Cox Media Group's Tom Raponi retiring from WFXT Boston, where he has been vice president-general manager, effective at year's end ... G+D Mobile Security adds Sridhar Ramachandran as vice president-IoT solutions, Americas region ... President Donald Trump nominations sent to the Senate for jurists include Gregory Katsas for U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see this section of the Sept. 8 issue of this publication); Janice Brown had retired.
Lyft moves in Washington: Lauren Belive promoted to director-federal government relations team; Jake Swanton, ex-Pew, hired as senior federal public policy manager; and Tommy Leander, who worked for Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., joins as federal public policy associate ... Returning to Jenner & Block as partner is Michael Wolf, ex-Aon; he works on transactions including involving IP ... Discovery Communications moves: Francis Keeling, ex-Spotify, joins as senior vice president-international digital; Jay Trinidad, running Discovery Northern Asia, now also managing director-digital ventures; and Eugene Huang, ex-American Express, hired as senior vice president-technology.
Hogan Lovells hires Edith Ramirez, ex-FTC, as partner and co-head, Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice and she will also help Privacy and Cybersecurity practice ... Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen picks Ian Conner, in Antitrust & Competition group at Kirkland & Ellis, as acting deputy director, Competition Bureau, effective Sept. 18 ... 21st Century Fox elevates Peter Rice to president ... Nutter law firm adds from Stroz Friedberg Seth Berman as a partner and working in areas including the Privacy and Data Security practice group.
Mobile Future adds Margaret McCarthy, ex-aide to Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., as executive director ... Sidley Austin hires Wim Nauwelaerts, ex-Hunton & Williams, as partner and member, global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice ... NBCUniversal creates unified research group to align sales research, insights and data capabilities for all platforms and partnership, led by Kavita Vazirani, who moves to newly created role of executive vice president-strategic insights and analytics ... USTelecom promotes Lorna Johnson to vice president-finance and administration.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long names Field Operations Directorate Assistant Administrator Michael Byrne federal disaster recovery coordinator for Storm Harvey-hit (see 1709010042) areas ... Utilities Technology Council hires Rob Thormeyer, ex-aide to then-Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member Colette Honorable and before that at NARUC, as its first director-communications and advocacy ... Last Mile Communications CEO Peter Kahelin, a founding partner, retires effective in Q4, and will be non-executive chairman ... Cox Media Group moves up Paul Curran to market vice president-Orlando.
With Uber confirming its board voted unanimously to name Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO, Expedia, where he was CEO, says he remains a board member and the directors promote Chief Financial Officer Mark Okerstrom to succeed Khosrowshahi as president-CEO and he joins the board ... Fox Television Group moves up Michael Thorn to president-entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Co., effective at the end of next month, succeeding David Madden, stepping down to pursue other opportunities ... Syniverse President-CEO Stephen Gray retiring, effective in February when his agreement expires ... Ethernet Alliance names board members Greg McSorley, Amphenol Corp., as president, and Craig Carlson, QLogic, treasurer; as Scott Kipp, Brocade, is the outgoing president.
Akin Gump hires Courtney York, mergers and acquisitions expert with focus on telecom, media and tech, as partner in corporate practice ... Newseum President-CEO Jeffrey Herbst steps down; for now, it's led by an executive committee of Jan Neuharth, chair-CEO, Freedom Forum, its principal funder; Peter Prichard, chair, Newseum; and museum's Chief Operating Officer Scott Williams ... Altice promotes Terry Cordova to vice chairman-business development/network and technology services and moves Philippe Le May to chief technology officer ... Hogan Lovells hires ex-International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex to its Intellectual Property Litigation practice.
ZTE USA appoints Angela Simpson, ex-NTIA, vice president-U.S. government affairs ... Thompson Hine adds E.J. Joswick, ex-FisherBroyles, who has worked on media, telecom and internet related patent issues, to Intellectual Property practice as a partner ... Wilson Sonsini hires Beth George, ex-DOD, for privacy and data protection practice as of counsel ... Beyond Limits adds Mark James, ex-NASA, as chief technology officer and executive director of the artificial intelligence and cognitive computing company's BL Labs ... At CBS, Showtime Networks hires from NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Erin Calhoun as senior vice president-corporate communications.
President Donald Trump to nominate officials including: Andrei Iancu, Irell & Manella IP lawyer, as undersecretary of commerce-intellectual property and director, Patent and Trademark Office; and Adam Klein, Center for a New American Security, as member and chairman, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ... Society of Broadcast Engineers 2017 elections for national board, in new positions for those individuals: for one-year terms, effective Oct. 26, Jim Leifer, American Tower, to president; Vice President RJ Russell, WTXF-TV Philadelphia; and Treasurer Jim Bernier, Turner; and to two-year terms, also effective Oct. 26, Andrea Cummis, AC Video Solutions; she was succeeded as treasurer; Steve Lampen, Belden; Kimberly Sacks, iHeartMedia; Barry Thomas, KSE Radio; and Kevin Trueblood, WGCU Public Media ... International Launch Services promotes Peter Stier to vice president-sales.