Communications Personals
Consumers Union hires Jonathan Schwantes, ex-Iverson Government Relations, as senior policy counsel, working on telecom issues, and Katie McInnis, ex-FCC privacy and technology fellow, as technology policy counsel, with focus on privacy issues ... Entertainment Software Association hires Delara Derakhshani, ex-Consumers Union, as tech policy counsel ... Freedom Technologies hires: Kate Briggs, ex-Salient CRGT, as director-information technology; J.C. Mendyka, ex-U.S. Army spectrum manager, as director-spectrum management; and Eli Gaylor, second-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center, as legal associate.
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Univision Communications hires Lourdes Diaz, ex-Comedy Central International, as president-entertainment, effective Nov. 1, and also effective then Adrian Santucho, ex-FremantleMedia Latin America, as executive vice president, Univision Studios ... Rogers Communications President-CEO Guy Laurence steps down; Joseph Natale, who has worked at Telus, hired as president-CEO “as soon as he is in a position to join Rogers”; during the interim, Chairman Alan Horn is president-CEO ... New Enterprise Associates adds Vanessa Larco, ex-Box, as partner ... DoubleVerify appoints Steve Brown, ex-Adconion, managing director, European region ... Comtech Telecommunications board appoints Yacov Shamash, Stony Brook University, as a director ... Lobbyist registrations: Electronic Payments Coalition, Motorola Solutions and Yelp, Polaris Government Relations, all effective Sept. 1 ... Ligado Networks, Podesta Group, effective Sept. 13 ... Tech company Sevatec, Orlie Yaniv Strategies, effective Aug. 31.