New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner Sandy Jones named chairman; new Commissioner Cynthia Hall named vice chairwoman ... Commissioner Donald Polmann began Thursday on the Florida Public Service Commission, appointed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) to a term ending in January 2021 ... Among those Trump-Pence Presidential Transition Team adds to White House policy team are Zina Bash, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, for areas including regulatory reform, and Peter White, ex-FCC and FTC and most recently aide to Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., as senior policy analyst ... BakerHostetler adds to Federal Policy team as senior advisers ex-Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and government affairs consultant James Murphy, ex-Donald J. Trump for President, who has done telecom work.
Intel hired Linda Kinney, ex-NTIA, as managing counsel-product regulatory ... American National Standards Institute adds Mary Saunders, leaving the National Institute of Standards and Technology and former ANSI vice chairwoman, as vice president-government relations and public policy, effective March 1, succeeding Scott Cooper, retired ... Viacom Kids & Family Group Chief Operating Officer Sarah Levy moves to COO of the company's Global Entertainment Group, new position ... Washington Utilities and Transportation Commissioner Philip Jones won't seek a third term after his term ended Jan. 1; Gov. Jay Inslee (D) extended his service until Feb. 28.
ICANN said it promotes Jamie Hedlund to senior vice president-contractual compliance and consumer safeguards, succeeding Allen Grogan, who previously said he was leaving (see 1610050040); Senior Vice President-Global Communications Duncan Burns takes on Hedlund's former responsibilities overseeing U.S. government relations and the Washington office ... Center for Democracy & Technology promotes Michelle De Mooy to director-Privacy & Data Project ... Joining CenturyLink government solutions team are Marcy Palus, ex-Lockheed Martin, as vice president-contracts management, and Kristine Adams, ex-staff assistant to then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who works on special projects ... Keller and Heckman Telecommunications partner Jack Richards retires.
David Nace, who helped found Lukas Nace, Gutierrez & Sachs, left "to explore a wide variety of enjoyable pursuits," it said; the law firm is being renamed Lukas, LaFuria, Gutierrez & Sachs; and it elevated to partner Todd Lantor ... AMD names Amy Wolverton, ex-HTC America, associate vice president-U.S. government affairs, leading U.S. government affairs from Washington ... New to Harris Wiltshire is Sam Walsh, ex-Department of Energy deputy general counsel-energy policy, as a partner.
Named members of the FCC Intergovernmental Advisory Committee for 2017-2019: state executive representative Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy; municipal representatives Bob Fifer, Arvada, Colorado; Andy Huckaba, Lenexa, Kansas; Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh; and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; county representatives Edwin Lee, San Francisco, and Hans Riemer, Montgomery County, Maryland; city attorney representative Kenneth Fellman, Yuma, Colorado; state legislative representatives Deb Peters, South Dakota; Angelo Puppolo, Massachusetts; and Jason Saine, North Carolina; state public utility commission representative Ronald Brisé, Florida; and tribal representatives Clifford Agee; Chickasaw Nation; Ada, Oklahoma, and James Norton; Yurok Tribe; Klamath, California ... Lobbyist registrations: Akamai Technologies, ATNI, Donuts, Google, INSP, Neustar, TiVo, Perry Bayliss Government Relations, effective Nov. 1; Iridium Communications, effective Dec. 1.
Jack Richards, ex-FCC, retires from Keller and Heckman at end of year.
AT&T promotes Michael Wittrock to president-Southeast Region ... Vonage Holdings elects Hamid Akhavan, Long Arc Capital, to its board ... Lobbyist registrations: IDT911, a cybersecurity firm, The Madison Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Enterprise software firm SAP America, Covington & Burling, effective Nov. 18.
Cloud services provider Asentinel, names Philippe Lignac, ex-Minacom, chief sales officer.
Senior Partner Lew Paper of Pillsbury Winthrop retiring, effective Jan. 1 ... Twitter Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger decided to leave and take time off; the company said it's "taking steps to streamline and flatten the organization by elevating our engineering, product and design functions, with each area now reporting directly" to CEO Jack Dorsey ... Greylock Partners hires as a partner Josh McFarland, who it says will leave Twitter, where he was vice president-product, in late Q1 ... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promotes Lauren Reamy to deputy legislative director; among those joining the office are Samantha Roberts, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., as general counsel, and Bobby Zarate, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., as a senior foreign policy adviser.
Harris Wiltshire promotes to partners Adrienne Fowler, with technology and telecom clients; Stephen Miller, complex civil litigation and telecom law, among other areas; and Henry Shi, working on FCC issues and areas including fiber networks and subsea cable ... Richard Lara, ex-Mase Lara, named executive vice president-general counsel, Spanish Broadcasting System ... Amazon hires Arrow Augerot, ex-U.S. Trade Representative Office, as senior manager-public policy ... Autobrain, connected car platform, hires Yonah Lloyd, ex-Mobileye, as president and appoints Tim Leuliette, former Visteon CEO, adviser to the chairman ... TechTarget names Daniel Noreck, ex-Providence and Worcester Railroad, chief financial officer-treasurer ... Wikia appoints Dorth Raphaely, ex-Bleacher Report, as senior vice president-content for its entertainment fan website Fandom.