Communications Personals
FCC hires Rachael Bender, leaving Mobile Future, as attorney-adviser, Wireless Bureau, effective in mid-October ... Millicom welcomes Rodrigo Diehl, ex-McKinsey & Co., as executive vice president-chief strategy officer ... Blancco Technology appoints Keith Butcher, ex-PaySafe Group, as chief financial officer; next month he joins the board, at which time CFO Jog Dhody resigns from company and board ... Sigma Designs promotes Sal Cobar to chief operating officer ... Zebra Technologies promotes Tom Bianculli to chief technology officer, new position ... National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative's NeoNova, which works with broadband providers, ups Jason McGinnis to president, succeeding Ray Carey, who has been CEO.
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Mellanox Technologies appoints Alinka Flaminia, ex-PMC-Sierra, senior vice president-general counsel; she's expected to also be corporate secretary; Vice President-Legal Affairs Gideon Rosenberg adds title deputy general counsel ... Discovery Communications elevates Kelly Kane to senior vice president-partner marketing and national accounts ... Silver Peak hires include: Shayne Stubbs, ex-Nicira, acquired by VMware, rejoining the broadband and hybrid wide area networks provider, named vice president-cloud service provider sales; and Bob Rodio, ex-CrossFiber, as vice president-chief technologist for service providers.
Among National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship members are: Esther Baldwin, Intel; Scott Frederick, New Enterprise Associates; Orin Herskowitz, Columbia Technology Ventures; Joseph Kapp, LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute board member; and Joseph Maribel Perez Wadsworth, Gannett ... At National Association of State Chief Information Officers, Mark Raymond, Connecticut CIO, named president for the 2016-17 program year, succeeding Darryl Ackley, New Mexico, now past president; other Executive Committee officers are: Bo Reese, Oklahoma, vice president; and Craig Orgeron, Mississippi, secretary/treasurer; Executive Committee directors are: Jason Allison, Florida; Thomas Baden, Minnesota; Ron Baldwin, Montana; Stu Davis, Ohio; Gale Given, West Virginia; Joanne Hale, Alabama; and Mark Myers, Arkansas.
FirstNet’s Public Safety Advisory Committee adds Michael Gilmore, FBI, and Kraig Moise, Customs and Border Protection, and they join the committee's Federal Working Group with Gilmore chairman and Moise vice chairman ... Lobbyist registrations: New England Innovation Alliance, ML Strategies, effective Sept. 1 ... Salesforce.com, Crossroads Strategies, effective Aug. 8. ... Professional association football division La Liga, VantageKnight, effective Aug. 4 and on piracy of copyrighted programming ... ZocDoc, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective Aug. 1.