Communications Personals

FTC Bureau of Competition Deputy Director Steve Weissman leaving the agency for Baker Botts; agency hired from that firm for the bureau Chuck Loughlin as deputy assistant director and deputy chief trial counsel, Litigation Group; Markus Meier moves to bureau's acting deputy director; at the bureau Assistant Director-Mergers III Phill Broyles retiring at year's end; and Dominic Vote moves to deputy assistant director-mergers II ... Comcast hires Robert Eatroff, leaving Morgan Stanley, as executive vice president-global corporate development and strategy, effective in January, succeeding Alexander Evans, who joins ex-Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis at the new "strategic company" Angelakis formed in partnership with Comcast to invest in "growth-oriented companies" (see 1505110036), and also succeeding Senior Vice President-Corporate Development Bob Pick, retiring at year-end but consulting for the company on special projects ... Internet Association hires Dusty Brighton, ex-Stateside Associates, as vice president-state government affairs.