Communications Personals
Leaving office of incoming House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., is Chief of Staff Brian MacDonald ... Information Technology Industry Council hires Eminence Griffin, ex-aide to House Small Business Committee ranking member Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., as director-federal procurement and legislative counsel, IT Alliance for the Public Sector ... Wilson Sonsini said those promoted to partner, effective Feb. 1, included: Matthew Argenti and Sabrina Poulos, both for patents and innovation; Cédric Burton, privacy and data protection; and James Huie, corporate, including the technology industry.
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FreeConferenceCall.com's new managing director of international operations is Bertrand Daumalle, ex-Liquid Telecom ... New to AMC Networks is Yoel Flohr, ex-Thirty Labs, as senior vice president-franchise development, AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios, a new position ... Joining Accenture is cybersecurity expert Justin Harvey, ex-Fidelis Cybersecurity, named managing director/global lead-Incident Response practice ... Atlantic Broadband appoints Gerardo Garza, ex-WANRack, vice president-business sales ... MapAnything announces Michael Muhlfelder, IoT expert and ex-Targit, joins as chief revenue officer ... Simmons Research adds Steve Dennen, ex-comScore, as vice president/head-partnerships.
ComScore co-founder Magid Abraham resigned from the board ... Games for Change said it named new board members: Alan Lewis, Take-Two Interactive; Mark DeLoura, ex-White House adviser; and Duane Bray, Ideo; and also on 2016 board: Asi Burak, Power Play, as chairman; Brooks Tanner, consultant, treasurer; Ava Zydor, Seventh Reach Media, secretary; and also Bruce Hack, BLH Ventures; Jane McGonigal, Institute for the Future; Erik Huey, Entertainment Software Association; and Elizabeth Sarquis, Jukko ... Among those on the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel 2017 board: Michael Bates, Intel; Nick Wagner, Iowa Utilities Board; David Wollman, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Bill Ash, IEEE Standards Association ... Lobbyist registrations: Uber, Ulman Public Policy & Federal Relations, effective Nov. 29 ... United Launch Alliance, Shank Public Policy, effective Nov 1.