Communications Personals
In office of Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Jillian Wheeler is promoted to press assistant, succeeding Press Secretary Emily Long, who is leaving to become a full-time stay-at-home parent; Lee is also Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chairman ... Sunlight Foundation Communications Director Jenn Topper said she's leaving to pursue other opportunities, as part of the group's transition; in a blog post Friday titled "Sunlight will endure," it said that in the transition and under incoming Executive Director John Wonderlich, who previously did the job on an interim basis (see this section of the Jan. 6 of this publication), Alex Howard is promoted to deputy director; in September, the group said it was ending some operations.
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AT&T promotes Eric Goldfeld to vice president-general manager, overseeing retail operations in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi ... CyberX adds Phil Neray, ex-Veracode, as vice-president-marketing ... University of Southern California starts Center for Human-Applied Reasoning and the Internet of Things, co-directed by Kenneth Yates, professor of clinical education at the USC Rossier School of Education; Rao Machiraju, executive-in-residence at the USC Rossier School of Education; and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ming Hsieh fellow and professor of electrical engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Pitney Bowes hires Stanley Sutula, ex-IBM, as executive vice president-chief financial officer, effective Feb. 1, succeeding Michael Monahan, who remains as chief operating officer and also works on operations including the commerce cloud ... Joining Viptela, software-defined WAN company, is Russ Harris, ex-Breathometer, as senior vice president-operations ... Viacom Chairman emeritus Sumner Redstone decided he won't run for re-election as a director, but he can still participate in board meetings as a nonvoting member, the company said in SEC filing.