Communications Personals
Incoming House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., hires onetime staffer Ray Baum as staff director, succeeding Gary Andres; Baum is leaving NAB, where he was a vice president-government relations ... Verizon elevates Robert Fisher to senior vice president-federal government relations, succeeding Peter Davidson, retiring (see 1612020037) … Stepping down from 21st Century Fox is Senior Vice President-Government Affairs Rick Lane, one of the company's top lobbyists who also had been vice chairman of its PAC, effective Jan. 1 ... President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Linda McMahon, WWE co-founder and ex-CEO, to be administrator, Small Business Administration.
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Weil Gotshal adds Kevin Arquit, ex-Simpson Thacher and previously at FTC, as partner, effective next month, and also names him co-head, global Antitrust/Competition practice, alongside current head Steven Newborn ... Huffington Post hires Lydia Polgreen, leaving The New York Times, as editor-in-chief, succeeding Arianna Huffington, who left to run her new venture Thrive Global, where she became CEO ... Emerson Network Power, now a stand-alone company called Vertiv with its $4 billion takeover by Platinum Equity from Emerson recently completed, said it named Rob Johnson, ex-Kleiner Perkins, CEO.
ThreatConnect hires John Lyons, ex-ThreatTrack Security, as senior vice president-global sales ... Ipswitch adds Jeanne Hopkins, ex-Continuum Managed Services, as executive vice president-chief marketing officer ... Avnet appoints Kevin Summers, ex-Lowe's, H&R Block and elsewhere, as chief information officer, succeeding Steve Phillips, who decided to leave the company ... At Media Institute board's annual meeting Wednesday, David Grimaldi, Interactive Advertising Bureau, and Adonis Hoffman, Business in the Public Interest, elected to the board of trustees, and board member Mike Regan, ex-21st Century Fox, voted chairman, Executive Committee.