Among Latham & Watkins associates promoted to partners effective Jan. 1 are, in Washington: Adam Greenfield, a member of the Litigation and Trial Department who represents clients in patent matters including over technology, and Matthew Murchison, member of the Corporate Department who handles regulatory, litigation and transactional matters in the communications sector; in Silicon Valley: Giri Pathmanaban, member of the Litigation and Trial Department who works on intellectual property litigation; in London: Deborah Kirk, member of the Corporate Department working on IP and tech-related issues in connection with transactions; and in Los Angeles promoted to counsel: Ghaith Mahmood, member of the Corporate Department who focuses on tech and IP-related transactions ... Future of Privacy Forum hires Amelia Vance, leaving National Association of State Boards of Education, as policy counsel, running education privacy project, to be effective Monday; succeeding her at NASBE is William Tucker, legal fellow who's taking over the data and technology project.
Charter Communications hires for Government Affairs team based in Washington, D.C.: Maureen O’Connell, ex-O’Connell Strategies and before that 21st Century Fox, as vice president-regulatory affairs, and Robert Kenny, ex-Mercury, as director-policy communications ... Viacom said board names Bob Bakish, who was president-CEO of Viacom International Media Networks, as acting president-CEO, effective Nov. 15; he succeeds Tom Dooley, leaving the company (see 1609210014); Bakish also was named president-CEO, Viacom Global Entertainment Group ... Lockheed Martin International hires David Trulio, ex-Raytheon and former corporate transactional lawyer, as vice president-international government affairs, operations, and regional executive, Latin America.
Eugene Kiselev of the FCC Media Bureau and Katherine LoPiccalo of the Office of Strategic Planning share the 2016 FCC Excellence in Economic Analysis Award, and Kamran Etemad of the Wireless Bureau and Robert Pavlak and Navid Golshahi of the Office of Engineering and Technology won the commission’s 2016 Excellence in Engineering Award ... Space Systems Loral names Richard White, ex-Capstone, senior vice president-business development, Government Systems ... Comcast promoted Sarah Gustashaw to vice president-finance, West Division ... Interactive Advertising Bureau names Dennis Buchheim, ex-Yahoo, senior vice president-data and ad effectiveness, and general manager-IAB Data Center of Excellence.
Comcast elevates Beth Choroser to vice president-regulatory affairs, moving to Washington and working on regulatory matters affecting broadband, voice, public safety and security with a primary focus on the FCC, succeeding Mary McManus, retiring Monday ... Progressive Policy Institute opens Brussels office; leading it is Michael Quigley, EU public affairs expert, named director-European office; the office also is led by PPI Executive Director Lindsay Mark Lewis ... 21st Century Fox hires Andrew Cripps, leaving Imax, as president-international theatrical distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Film, effective in January.
Ericsson said board hires Börje Ekholm, leaving Investor's Patricia Industries, as president-CEO, effective Jan. 16; he remains an Ericsson director; Jan Frykhammar is interim CEO until Ekholm starts ... As Google Fiber scales back (see 1610260034), Google Access CEO Craig Barratt on Tuesday said he is leaving as CEO, is staying at parent Alphabet as adviser ... Recently named (see 1610240052) Acting Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple Claggett hires Jody Harry, ex-DOJ Civil Rights Division, as chief financial officer, Copyright Office, new position ... Hearst Television advances John Drain to chief financial officer.
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham resigns ... Comcast names Maria Weaver, ex-Radio One's Interactive One, senior vice president-marketing, Comcast Cable's Comcast Spotlight ... Joining CenturyLink is Erich Sanchack, ex-Lockheed Martin, as senior vice president-federal sales, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Tim Meehan, named vice president-managed services sales and support ... Harland Clarke advances Victor Nichols to CEO, succeeding Chuck Dawson, named chairman, effective Jan. 1 ... RF Industries said President-CEO Johnny Walker agreed to terminate his employment to attend to family medical needs; Howard Hill, founder and ex-president/CEO, will be interim president-CEO without pay.
Viacom promotes VH1 and Logo President Chris McCarthy to also be president of MTV ... In New York Times Co.'s buy effective Monday of tech and other product-recommendation services The Sweethome and sister site The Wirecutter, the acquirer said their founder Brian Lam remains in an advisory role; staying in current roles post-takeover are Jacqui Cheng, editor-in-chief, and Christopher Mascari, product director; NYT Beta Vice President Ben French is interim general manager, integrating the services into the media company ... Aon hires James Trainor, ex-FBI Cyber Division head, as senior vice president-Aon Risk Solutions' Cyber Solutions Group ... Ankura Consulting Group appoints Luke Tenery, ex-Kroll's Cyber Security and Investigations practice, as senior managing director, leading Ankura's Cybersecurity practice within the firm's Risk, Resilience & Geopolitical group ... Cyient announces Suman Narayan, ex-ON Semiconductor, as senior vice president-head, Semiconductor Business unit.
Venable hires Charles Curran, ex-Network Advertising Initiative, as partner, Privacy and Data Security practice ... EverFi education tech firm adding Monique Waters, leaving the office of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., as senior director-corporate communications, effective in early November ... Emerson said senior leadership moves in the Office of the Chief Executive include: Michael Train, to executive president-Emerson Automation Solutions; Robert Sharp, becomes executive president-Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions; Sara Yang Bosco promoted to senior vice president-secretary-general counsel of the entire company; and Katherine Button Bell, to vice president-chief marketing officer ... Viacom hires Kiel Berry, ex-Linkin Park’s Machine Shop Ventures, as co-head/senior vice president-Viacom Labs, which also is led by Susan Claxton, recently promoted to senior vice president.
National Governors Association hires Kirk Jonas, ex-University of Richmond, as director-Center for Best Practices ... Social Reality, internet advertising automation firm, names J.P. Hannan, ex-Cumulus Media, chief financial officer ... AirMap, drone airspace management platform, adds Daniel Rubio, ex-Here location company, as chief technology officer ... Flashpoint, deep and dark web business risk intelligence provider, appoints Jennifer Leggio, ex-Digital Shadows and Cisco, as chief marketing officer ... Scality, object and cloud storage provider, said it has hired Paul Turner, ex-Cloudian, as chief marketing officer, and Pierre Derome, formerly of T-Online France, as vice president-engineering, and has promoted Claire Forest to chief people officer ... Konrad Technologies adds David Loadman, from National Instruments,as vice president-general manager ... Ignition Partners said Scott Coleman, ex-Microsoft, has joined as business development partner ... Lobbyist registrations: Intel, Sirona Strategies, effective Sept. 27 ... Visual Arts Rights Coalition, Capstone National Partners, effective July 1 and on House and Senate Judiciary committees' copyright and royalty issues/reform.
Qualcomm promotes Qualcomm Technology Licensing's Alex Rogers to executive vice president-president, QTL, which he has led since March ... NetLinkz, software defined-wide area network technology firm, hires Suthan Naganayagam, ex-SAP, as CEO-managing director ... Strategy Analytics Consumer Insights Practice adds Jordan Louviere, inventor of MaxDiff, as chief research scientist ... Kony adds Cem Tanyel, ex-TriZetto Corp., as executive vice president/general manager-global service ... Joining Veritas Technologies is David Dart, ex-Celanese Corp., as chief human resources officer ... BigCommerce appoints Brian Dhatt, ex-Borderfree, which Pitney Bowes bought, chief technology officer, new position, and Tod Klubnik, ex-PeopleAdmin, senior vice president-global sales.