President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announce transition spokesperson TJ Ducklo as incoming administration's deputy press secretary; before the Biden campaign, Ducklo was senior communications director at NBC News and ex-MPA; Biden also taps New York City Emergency Management Department Commissioner Deanne Criswell for Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator; and Biden picks Eric Lander as director, Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential science adviser, who will be a Cabinet member for the first time; Lander is founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and during Obama administration was external co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Kei Koizumi named OSTP chief of staff and Narda Jones, ex-Senate Commerce Committee and FCC before that, for OSTP legislative affairs director.

FCC Public Safety Bureau hires Bill Kang, ex-Booz Allen, as deputy chief, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division ... Jenner & Block taps Joshua Riley from Boies Schiller as partner, Government Controversies and Public Policy Litigation Practice; he's also former Senate Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee general counsel ... McDermott Will adds from Deloitte Legal Hendrik Viaene to international antitrust practice as partner; his work included financial data, telecom, media and private equity ... Alliance for Automotive Innovation promotes Scott Schmidt to vice president-safety policy.

As 49.99% stake has been sold to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, with Altice USA keeping the rest (see 2012010066), Lightpath taps Chris Morley, ex-Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, as CEO; also at the company are Chief Revenue Officer Doug Dalissandro, ex-Lightower Fiber Networks, and Chief Strategy Officer David Mayer, ex-Lightower general counsel ... NPR hires Whitney Maddox, diversity expert from Georgetown University, as diversity equity and inclusion manager, NPR Training team, effective Feb. 1 ... Dell'Oro Group hires Informa’s Matthias Machowinski as senior director-research, leading wireless LAN research program.

E.W. Scripps names vice presidents, reporting to Jeffrey Wolf, who came from affiliated Katz networks and became chief distribution officer-national networks business: Brad Samuels, ex-Scripps' Newsy, for distribution partnerships and strategy; Damian Riordan from Ion Media, which Scripps is buying, for broadcast distribution; and Yvonne Haugh, ex-Katz, for distribution and affiliate operations ... Hearst Television promotes Ernesto Mourelo to vice president-digital news ... Zoom Chief Operating Officer Aparna Bawa joins TechNet Executive Council.

Content & Connectivity Human Resources executive committee for 2021 names Dave Crossen, NBCUniversal, as C2HR president; Julie Neimat, Discovery, vice president; and Sandy Gunn, Comcast Advertising, secretary; with Michele Parks, Cox Communications, immediate past president; and Kara Anderson, ESPN, executive committee member; new to the board are Angela Conklin, Vyve Broadband; Ellen Russ, WarnerMedia; and Ravena Valentine, A+E Networks.

CompTIA names Tech Data’s Tracy Holtz and Alvaka Networks' Kevin McDonald to co-chair new cybersecurity advisory council, charged with giving tech companies guidance on “pressing cybersecurity issues and threats”; Kevin Nikkhoo of XeneX is vice chair; other members are Pierson Clair, Kroll; Sean Cordero, Netskope; Ron Culler, ADT Cybersecurity; Kyle Hanslovan, Huntress Labs; Rebecca Herold, The Privacy Professor; Taylor Hersom, Eden Data; Diana Kelley, SecurityCurve; Christopher Morales, Vectra AI; Ben Nowacky, Axcient; Eric Pinto, SOCSoter; Frank Rauch, Check Point; Joseph Steinberg, Steinberg LLC; and J.J. Thompson, Sophos.