Communications Personals
Among Latham & Watkins associates promoted to partners effective Jan. 1 are, in Washington: Adam Greenfield, a member of the Litigation and Trial Department who represents clients in patent matters including over technology, and Matthew Murchison, member of the Corporate Department who handles regulatory, litigation and transactional matters in the communications sector; in Silicon Valley: Giri Pathmanaban, member of the Litigation and Trial Department who works on intellectual property litigation; in London: Deborah Kirk, member of the Corporate Department working on IP and tech-related issues in connection with transactions; and in Los Angeles promoted to counsel: Ghaith Mahmood, member of the Corporate Department who focuses on tech and IP-related transactions ... Future of Privacy Forum hires Amelia Vance, leaving National Association of State Boards of Education, as policy counsel, running education privacy project, to be effective Monday; succeeding her at NASBE is William Tucker, legal fellow who's taking over the data and technology project.
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CTIA Vice President-Public Affairs Amy Storey to leave, effective likely in December, to start own consulting firm ... Virginia State Corporation Commission said Communications Division Director William Irby retiring; SCC Energy Regulation and Communications divisions joined as Public Utility Regulation Division, with William Stephens, who has been the Energy Regulation Division director, the new division's director; Sheree King, longtime telecom competition specialist, is the new division's primary contact for telecom-related matters ... Crown Media elevates Erin McIlvain to executive vice president-content strategy & distribution ... Airborne Wireless Network hires Earle Olson, ex-TE Connectivity, as vice president-industry relations.
Entercom names Matt Hanlon, ex-Citadel Broadcasting, vice president-market manager, newly formed Entercom Charlotte ... Support.com board appoints director Rick Bloom interim president-CEO, succeeding Elizabeth Cholawsky, who resigned ... Ipswitch appoints Michael Grossi, ex-Xura, as executive vice president-strategy and alliances ... Public Media NJ, operator of New Jersey's public TV network, elects to board of trustees Peter Cocoziello, Advance Realty, and Ann Limberg, U.S. Trust ... Black Box board votes to make Cynthia Comparin, Animato Technologies, a director.