Communications Personals
Senior Partner Lew Paper of Pillsbury Winthrop retiring, effective Jan. 1 ... Twitter Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger decided to leave and take time off; the company said it's "taking steps to streamline and flatten the organization by elevating our engineering, product and design functions, with each area now reporting directly" to CEO Jack Dorsey ... Greylock Partners hires as a partner Josh McFarland, who it says will leave Twitter, where he was vice president-product, in late Q1 ... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promotes Lauren Reamy to deputy legislative director; among those joining the office are Samantha Roberts, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., as general counsel, and Bobby Zarate, ex-aide to outgoing Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., as a senior foreign policy adviser.
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National Instruments names John Roiko, now vice president-finance, to be interim chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, continuing to report to Alex Davern, current chief operating officer and CFO, who becomes CEO ... Xerox moves Steve Hoover, CEO of PARC, to chief technology officer, effective Jan. 1, succeeding Sophie Vandebroek, retiring ... Fuze names Brian Day, ex-Apperian, chief financial officer and Mary Good, ex-hCentive, chief people officer.
Society of Broadcast Engineers names board member Wayne Pecena, Texas A&M University, national secretary on the SBE board, succeeding Tim Anderson; joining executive committee is board member Jim Bernier, Turner Entertainment Networks ... Spirion adds Donald Codling, ex-FBI Cyber Division, to the company's board ... Verizon board member Donald Nicolaisen resigning, effective Dec. 31 ... Newly elected to Global VSAT Forum board is Keith Johnson, SpeedCast.