Communications Personals

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., promotes Nick Rossi to majority staff director, succeeding David Schwietert, leaving ... Best Best & Krieger confirms it has hired Drew Clark, ex-Kirton McConkie, as counsel, Municipal Law practice group, working on Internet technology, broadband deployment and intellectual property ... Information Technology Industry Council's IT Alliance for the Public Sector hires as senior managers, State, Local and Education Technology division Jordan Kroll, ex-Stateside Associates, and Liam Crawford, ex-National Governors Association ... Management changes at Apple: Jeff Williams promoted to chief operating officer; Johny Srouji promoted to senior vice president-hardware technologies; Phil Schiller’s role as senior vice president-worldwide marketing expanded to include responsibility for the App Store across all Apple platforms; Tor Myhren, ex-Grey Group, hired as vice president-marketing communications, effective in Q1, succeeding Hiroki Asai, retiring.