DLA Piper hires from KPMG Ronald Plesco as partner, Intellectual Property and Technology practice ... With Public Media Venture Group working with Convergence Services Inc. on ATSC 3.0 for PMVG’s noncommercial stations, CSI President John Lawson named adviser, PMVG; he's also executive director, Advanced Warning and Response Network Alliance ... Federal Acquisition Service Deputy Commissioner and Director-Technology Transformation Services Anil Cheriyan "returning to the private sector for a new career opportunity," General Services Administration says.

Media Institute names Stuart Brotman, ex-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Science and Technology Innovation Program, distinguished fellow, coordinating programming at just-created Digital Media Center; he remains University of Tennessee-Knoxville professor of media management and law and professor of journalism and electronic media ... House Science, Space and Technology Committee ranking member Frank Lucas says fellow Republicans Mike Garcia of California and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin join the committee after winning special elections; Pete Olson of Texas leaving after his temporary waiver to sit on the panel.

In Velodyne and Graf Industrial combining, Velodyne founder David Hall is executive chairman; CEO Anand Gopalan and Chief Financial Officer Drew Hamer "will lead and manage the business along with Mr. Hall," and Chief Marketing Officer Marta Hall continues to "support and elevate the brand" ... In Colony Capital's "ongoing digital transformation and strategic plan" (see this section, March 16), Marc Ganzi as expected becomes president-CEO; he also joins the board; Charles Schoenherr resigns from the board.

CuriosityStream hires Bill Goodwyn to newly created job of executive vice president-strategy, business development and partnerships, chief revenue officer; Goodwyn has worked at Discovery and now is vice chairman, Discovery Education; CuriosityStream chairman-founder is John Hendricks, who founded Discovery Communications ... Keyavi Data security technology company taps Rocky McMurray, a cybersecurity and technology executive, as executive vice president-sales.

Logitech board asks shareholders at annual meeting to elect Deborah Thomas, Hasbro chief financial officer, who's nominated for independent director; Guerrino De Luca decides to not seek re-election; directors name Samantha Harnett, Logitech general counsel, member of group management team, as executive officer ... Maxar Technologies picks Managing Partner-Alsop Louie Partners Gilman Louie as director, as expected (see this section, June 25); term ends at 2021 annual meeting, when he seeks election ... Vecna Robotics appoints Daniela Rus to its board; Rus, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is also director, MassRobotics with Vecna Robotics CEO Daniel Theobald; Vecna recently named Denis Lussault, ex-Balyo, vice president-autonomy.

Domain Name System Security Facilitation Initiative Technical Study Group, which had its first meeting last month, "will now begin its work to investigate the potential mechanisms to strengthen collaboration and communication on the security and stability issues that impact the Domain Name System," ICANN says now; members are Akamai's Tim April; Gavin Brown, CentralNic; John Crain, responsible for establishing strategy, planning and execution for ICANN external Security, Stability and Resiliency programs; coordinator Merike Kao, Double Shot Security; retired cybersecurity executive Rod Rasmussen; Marc Rogers of Okta; Katrina Sataki, NIC.LV; Robert Schischka with nic.at; and Duane Wessels, Verisign.