Communications Personals
Tuesday was the last day for Bill Lake as FCC Media Bureau chief; as expected (see 1701240064), he's succeeded Wednesday by the bureau's Michelle Carey as acting chief ... Leaving the FCC is Edward "Smitty" Smith, who recently was on leave during the administration transition and was a wireless aide to then-Chairman Tom Wheeler; Smith told us he plans to return to private sector law practice and isn't announcing where he will next work ... TechFreedom hires Austin Carson, ex-aide to House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, as executive director, new position ...F5 Networks hires François Locoh-Donou, leaving Ciena (see this section of the Jan. 25 issue of this publication), as president-CEO and a board member, effective April 3, succeeding John McAdam, who will remain a director.
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Jenner & Block names Washington partners Matthew Hellman and Jessica Ring Amunson and Chicago partner Michael Brody all as co-chairs, Appellate and Supreme Court practice, succeeding Chairman Paul Smith, leaving the law firm to teach at Georgetown University Law Center and litigate for voting rights and campaign finance reform at the Campaign Legal Center ... Kroll hires Jason Smolanoff, ex-CISO Advisory & Investigations, as senior managing director/leader, Global Cyber Security practice ... Lexumo, software security for the IoT, adds Steve Roge, ex-Mimecast, as chief revenue officer/vice president-customer success, and Rich Stoller, ex-SavingStar, as vice president-operations ... Synopsys' Brian Beattie, executive vice president-business operations and chief administrative officer, retiring, fully effective Dec. 22.
Entercom starts Content Innovation Group, led by Managing Editor Kyle McCann, hired from Townsquare Media ... Joining Pride Global is Lisa Russell, IT staffing expert and ex-AT&T, as director-Information Technology Recruitment Practice and leader-newly created Russell Tobin National Technology Fulfillment Recruiting Center, all part of Russell Tobin ... Comcast's NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises hired Fabrizio Alcobe, ex-Univision Networks, as senior vice president-human resources ... Tribune Media elevates David Diederich to senior vice president-national ad sales, WGN America.
Venafi names Elizabeth Ireland, ex-Tripwire, chief marketing officer ... George Blue, ex-TV4 Entertainment, joins advanced TV advertising firm BrightLine as chief revenue officer, new position ... OpenX names vice presidents Dipanjan Chattopadhyay, ex-Criteo, in product for core exchange, and Igor Polovinchik, ex-Turn, in technology operations ... Energous hires ex-Broadcom Mobility Group engineer Chryssoula Kyriazidou as vice president-engineering, antennas and electromagnetics ... TRXio, inventory management service for AV industry, hires John Milton, ex-ListenUp, for the post it calls senior business development.
Senate Small Business Committee OKs nomination of Linda McMahon, ex-WWE CEO, to be small business administrator; nomination now moves to full Senate ... Lionsgate extends contract of Starz Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Hirsch to December 2020 ... Society of Broadcast Engineers President Jerry Massey, in a move ratified by Executive Committee, appoints Vinny Lopez, Sinclair, to fill open position on SBE board for term ending in 2018, succeeding Wayne Pecena, who was named secretary in December (see this section of the Dec. 22 issue of this publication) ... BitPay elects Carl Stern, Carl Stern Associates, to board ... OWL Cybersecurity adds Andrew Lewman, Farsight Security, to its board.
Among other elections at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (see this section of the Jan. 31 issue of this publication), newly named to full director terms are: Lee Brown, BuzzFeed; Keith Grossman, Bloomberg LP; Chris Guenther, News Corp.; Jed Hartman, The Washington Post; Allie Kline, AOL; Warren Lapa, Spectrum Reach; Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google; and Jeremy Steinberg, Weather Co. ... Interactive Advertising Bureau and Japan Interactive Advertising Association said JIAA becoming a national IAB licensee, to be called IAB Japan, led by Yoshio Takada, JIAA chairman.