Qualcomm President Derek Aberle decides to leave, effective Dec. 31; Executive Vice President-Qualcomm Technologies President Alex Rogers will report directly to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf ... IPValue Management, corporate licensing and patent monetization provider, adds John Lindgren, ex-Conversant Intellectual Property Management, as president-CEO and he joins the board, succeeding Murali Dharan, who remains a board member ... Interactive Advertising Bureau names John Frelinghuysen, ex-Disney/ABC Television, publisher-in-residence.
AT&T promotes Joan Marsh to run federal regulatory relations, state external and legislative affairs regions and national regulatory organization as executive vice president-regulatory and state external affairs ... Advertising Self-Regulatory Council and Council of Better Business Bureaus appoint from the Entertainment Software Rating Board Dona Fraser as director-Children’s Advertising Review Unit, succeeding Wayne Keeley ... Honigman Miller starts autonomous vehicle industry group, hires ex-FTC attorney Steve Wernikoff to co-lead the group, which also is run by partner Tom Appledorn; Wernikoff also named co-leader-cybersecurity and privacy practice.
Intel President-Manufacturing, Operations and Sales Stacy Smith to retire Jan. 31, no successor named ... E.W. Scripps promotions: Brian Lawlor to president-local media; Laura Tomlin to senior vice president-national media; Lisa Knutson to executive vice president-chief strategy officer; Chief Financial Officer Tim Wesolowski and General Counsel William Appleton add titles of executive vice president ... Entercom names Chris Wegmann, ex-Radio One, vice president-market manager, Entercom New Orleans ... Sinclair Broadcast names ex-producer Scott Ehrlich vice president-emerging platform content.
Mediacom promotions: Barry Paden to senior vice president-programming, Louis Gentile to group vice president-internal audit, Mary Green to vice president-internal audit. Joseph Michulski to vice president-finance, Debra Zullo to vice president-IT ... Maya Uppaluru, ex-FCC, to join Crowell & Moring's digital health team.
President Donald Trump to name John Sherman, deputy director-CIA’s Open Source Enterprise, chief information officer of the intelligence community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence ... House Commerce Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee promotes Melissa Froelich to chief counsel ... Cox Media Group promotes Mary Ellen Marcilliat-Falkner to senior vice president-chief human relations officer, effective Sept. 11 ... Nexstar Media Group says Sean Banks will return to WOWK-TV Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia, and associated digital services as vice president-general manager ... Lobbyist registrations: Intel, Venn Strategies, effective Aug. 1 ... Times-Shamrock Communications, DMM Strategies, effective Aug. 1 ... Totah Communications, Ehrlich & Associates, effective July 15.
FCC outgoing Chief Information Officer David Bray hired by People-Centered Internet as executive director, starting by the end of September; he was previously going to move from FCC to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as director of NGIA's new Office of Ventures and Innovation (see this section of the June 6 issue of this publication) ... Telesat adds satellite industry expert Don Brown, with recent past affiliations at Speedcast and Renaissance Strategic Advisors, as general manager-government services ... Nexstar Media promotes Andrew Alford to senior vice president-regional manager, overseeing broadcast and digital operations in Southeastern regional markets.
Kelley Drye elects Marisa Lorenzo partner and Mike Dover promoted to special counsel, both in the Communications Practice Group ... Technology Policy Institute adds John Horrigan, ex-Pew Research Center, as senior fellow ... Alan Devlin, ex-FTC Competition Bureau (see 1707050037), rejoins Latham & Watkins as counsel, Global Antitrust & Competition practice in the Litigation & Trial Department, working on issues including transactions and intellectual property ... USTelecom promotes Robert Mayer to senior vice president-cybersecurity ... Pandora hires Todd Novick, ex-WTTG Washington, as political, advocacy and government East Coast sales manager.
Consumer Reports hires Justin Brookman, ex-FTC (see this section of the Aug. 8 issue of this publication), as director-consumer privacy and technology policy, Consumers Union ... President Donald Trump appoints Cameron Quinn, ex-Agriculture Department, officer for civil rights and civil liberties, Department of Homeland Security ... Sony Electronics hires Cheryl Goodman, ex-Athena San Diego and ex-Qualcomm, as head-corporate communications, succeeding John Dolak, who recently left the company.
Google’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiary hires David Quinalty, Senate Commerce Committee telecom policy aide, as public policy and government affairs head ... PdvWireless hires Kevin Malloy, ex-National Grid, as director-business development, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs team ... Herring Networks hires Bruce Littman, ex-Anthem Sports, as executive vice president-content distribution ... ASCAP adds Tristan Boutros, ex-New York Times, as chief technology officer ... Trustworthy Accountability Group recent hires include Bonnie Niederstrasser, ex-Charter Communications, as director-policy and programs, and Dominique Matthews, ex-CoreLogic SafeRent, as manager-operations and compliance.
Pandora says it has hired Roger Lynch, founding CEO of Sling TV, as CEO-president and board member, effective Sept. 18; interim CEO Naveen Chopra remains chief financial officer and Michael Lynton, ex-Sony, joins the board; Dish Network says President-Chief Operating Officer Erik Carlson adds to his portfolio Sling TV, with changes there effective Aug. 31 ... SiriusXM hires Mike Connolly, ex-ESPN, as head-advertising sales, reporting to President-Chief Content Officer Scott Greenstein ... AccuWeather taps Eric Danetz, ex-Time Inc., as global chief revenue officer.