Communications Personals
Glen Echo Group hires cybersecurity/communications expert Matthew Ballard, ex-House Homeland Security Committee, as senior associate ... Discovery Communications hires Mark Edwards, now superintendent of North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District, as senior vice president-digital learning, Discovery Education, effective in August ... Microsoft hires for Washington, D.C., office: Michelle Patron, ex-special assistant to President Barack Obama and National Security Council energy/climate expert, as director-sustainability policy, new position; Audrey Jackson, graduate of Georgetown University who interned for ex-Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., as project coordinator; and to same post Conor Magee, ex-Contemporary Staffing Solutions ... Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission promotes Richard Kanaskie to director-Investigation and Enforcement Bureau, succeeding Johnnie Simms, retired.
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Tenable Network Security hires Stephen Riddick, ex-Praxair, as general counsel ... Mass Markets hires David Geiger ex-CXP: Customer Experience Partners, as chief strategy officer ... Snapchat hires Jeff Lucas, ex-Viacom, as vice president/head-global sales ... RingCentral hires Riadh Dridi, ex-VMware, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Malwarebytes hires Justin Dolly, ex-Jawbone, as chief information security officer, new position ... Kopin hires Kenny Cheung, ex-Solomon Systech, as vice president-general manager.
Media Financial Management Association-BCCA elects to board Matt Askins, Ernst & Young; Stuart Benson, A+E Networks; Jason Facer, Cox Media Group; Brian Ignatowski, Disney Financial Services/ESPN; Howard Patterson, Plain Dealer Publishing; and Hilda Rivera, ABC Owned Television Stations ... Luis Garcia, MarketVision, joins Gray Television board ... Logitech board nominates Patrick Aebischer, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, for election as a director at the Sept. 7 annual meeting, to succeed Kee Lock Chua, who didn't seek re-election ... Sonic Foundry director Paul Peercy retiring for personal reasons ... Lobbyist registrations: Palo Alto Networks, Cornerstone Government Affairs, effective May 24 ... Experian North America, O'Rourke & Nappi, effective May 24.