Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy names Gigi Sohn, also at Open Society Foundations, as a distinguished fellow at the institute ... New to 21st Century Fox: Audrey Cooling, ex-Glover Park Group, as vice president-Global Public Affairs and Policy group; reporting to her is Charlie Greene, ex-Commerce Department, named manager-public affairs and policy ... Computer & Communications Industry Association hires Joshua Landau, ex-WilmerHale, as patent counsel and lead blogger-CCIA’s Patent Progress ... Joining Wikimedia Foundation is Eileen Hershenov, ex-Consumers Union, as general counsel.
Wilkinson Barker hires ex-FCC member Kathleen Abernathy, most recently at Frontier Communications, to return to the law firm, as special counsel, and she may work with clients in sectors including in media, communications and technology ... Towerstream names Laura Thomas, ex-TNCI, as chief financial officer, succeeding Frederick Larcombe ... Ex-Bose veteran Pete Ogley named chief operating officer at Sennheiser ... Discovery Communications moves up Donna D'Alessandro to senior vice president-programming, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet ... Comcast adds J.D. Keller, ex-ADT, as regional vice president, Twin Cities region.
Frontier Communications hires Chris Levendos, ex-Google Fiber, as executive vice president-field operations; predecessor John Lass retires ... Sony Corp. hires Anthony Vinciquerra, Texas Pacific Group and ex-Fox, as chairman-CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment, effective June 1, succeeding Michael Lynton, who announced in January he would step down this spring ... Comcast adds at NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations Azza Elsheikh, ex-American Express, as vice president-digital product management and design.
New to 21st Century Fox: Michael O’Leary, ex-O’Leary Global Solutions and MPAA, as senior vice president, in Global Public Affairs and Policy group ... Facebook hires Sandy Luff, ex-aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as executive branch public policy director, and Nu Wexler, ex-Twitter, as policy communications manager ... Intel moves Gregory Bryant to general manager, Client Computing Group, and he joins Management Committee ... Hulu hires from AMC Networks Joel Stillerman as chief content officer, new position.
Bill Baer, ex-DOJ, rejoins Arnold & Porter, as partner, effective June 1 ... Qualcomm Senior Vice President Dean Brenner now has that title for spectrum strategy and technology policy ... Public Citizen hires Alan Zibel, ex-Enterprise Community Partners, as research director-Corporate Presidency campaign ... Airwavz Solutions names Brad Davis, ex-ProctorFree, CEO and a board member ... At 21st Century Fox, Joe Marchese moves to president-advertising revenue, Fox Networks Group ... Zayo names Ed Morche, ex-Level 3, president-sales ... Senate 57-42 confirms Scott Gottlieb as food and drugs commissioner ... Spanish Broadcasting System moves up Donny Hudson to general manager-vice president, SBS Miami.
White House said Tuesday evening that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey; we couldn't reach anyone at the bureau to comment by our deadline ... Attorney and ex-state Sen. Keith Jordan named to Tennessee Public Utility Commission to fill balance of an unexpired term, until June 30, 2018 ... Leaving NAB for 21st Century Fox: Jamie Gillespie becomes vice president in the Global Public Affairs and Policy group, effective June 5 ... Ready Wireless hires Joe Peterson, ex-Telit, as president, Ready IoT ... General Electric appointments include Mo Cowan, ex-ML Strategies and Mintz Levin, named vice president-litigation and legal policy, and Kevin Ichhpurani, ex-Ernst & Young, as executive vice president-global ecosystem and channels, GE Digital ... Polycom hires Tarun Loomba, ex-SanDisk, as executive vice president-solutions management.
CTIA adds Nick Ludlum, ex-Ogilvy Public Relations, as senior vice president-communications/chief communications officer ... MPAA appointments: Communications Department hires Adria Márquez, ex-Department of Education, as director-digital advocacy and communications; and named deputy directors-communications: Macey Sevcik, ex-aide to Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla.; and Rebecca Wardell, ex-Edelman and Keybridge Communications ... At 21st Century Fox, Fox News names Marianne Gambelli, ex-Horizon Media, president-advertising sales, effective May 22.
Howard Symons, ex-FCC, says he joins Jenner & Block as partner, Communications, Internet & Technology Practice ... Directors Guild of America adds from AltaMed Health Services Erica Jacquez as executive in charge of government affairs; government affairs executive Kathy Garmezy retires ... Andrea Peterson, ex-The Washington Post, says she joins Project on Government Oversight as investigator, working on surveillance, privacy and government technology issues ... Flex hires Kevin Kettler, who was a full-time consultant for Qualcomm, as chief technology officer-senior vice president, Cloud Business unit ... TMM President-Director Gerard Cavanaugh retires.
Steptoe & Johnson hires Jonathan Sallet, ex-DOJ and FCC, as partner ... Cable One moves Michael Bowker up to chief operating officer ... Cox Communications moves Len Barlik to executive vice president-chief operations officer ... Board of Xperi, with assets including DTS, HD Radio and Tessera, promotes Jon Kirchner to CEO, effective June 1, succeeding Tom Lacey, retiring from the company, including the board, but remaining as an adviser through year-end with a focus on IP licensing.
Consumer Reports hires Jessica Rich, ex-FTC, as vice president-consumer policy and mobilization ... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promotes Lauren Reamy to legislative director and Matt Wolking to senior communications adviser and press secretary, and rejoining office as communications director is Olivia Perez-Cubas ... Penske Media promotes Todd Greene to executive vice president-business affairs and general counsel, and Craig Perreault to executive vice president-business development ... Siklu, millimeter wave radio firm, names Eyal Assa, ex-Amdocs, as CEO.