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Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program hires

Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program hires Blair Levin, ex-Aspen Institute, as nonresident senior fellow, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative … TechNet hires Caroline Joiner, ex-independent government affairs consultant, as executive director-Texas and Southeast region … Fletcher Heald hires Laura Stefani, ex-Goldberg Godles, as of counsel, to focus on emerging technologies, wireless, broadband and RF equipment issues … Davis Wright hires Bonnie MacNaughton, ex-Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, as a partner, Seattle office … Application Developers Alliance hires Sophie Mestchersky, ex-Apple, as director-European policy and government affairs.

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Vonage hires Alan Masarek, ex-Google, as CEO and board member, effective Nov. 6, the day before Marc Lefar retires as CEO and from the board … Mary Ellen Genovese, ex-Trimble Navigation, joins 8x8 as chief financial officer, replacing Dan Weirich, who will depart Oct. 31 to join a private company “with a cloud service in the big data space” … Australian broadband product supplier NetComm Wireless hires Jim Berridge, ex-Nokia, as executive vice president-strategic accounts, U.S., based in Atlanta … Coalition for Local Internet Choice adds to board of advisers Sharon Gillett, Microsoft, and Christopher Libertelli, Netflix, and previously added Vint Cerf, Google.