Communications Personals
Senate Commerce Committee adds telecom and tech aides: Cort Bush, ex-aide to Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, as professional staff member, and Crystal Tully, ex-aide to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as counsel ... FCC Wireless Bureau names Charles Mathias ombudsperson, single point of contact for issues of contraband wireless devices in correctional facilities and deployment of technologies used to combat them; he remains a bureau associate chief; agency notes the ombudsperson position stems from order commissioners approved at their meeting last week to combat such contraband devices (see 1703230056) ... Society for Science & the Public adds Kumar Garg, ex-Office of Science and Technology Policy, as senior fellow.
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Jenner & Block starts Aviation and Aerospace practice group, with co-chairs and partners Thomas Newton Bolling and Abby Bried, both ex-United Airlines, and Marc Warren, ex-Crowell & Moring ... NS1 hires Salil Jani, its outside counsel while a partner at Norris McLaughlin, as vice president-business development and general counsel ... Qualcomm names Executive Vice President-Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies James Thompson to also be the unit's chief technology officer, succeeding Executive Vice President Matt Grob, who keeps that title, now for technology, and continues to report to parent company CEO Steve Mollenkopf.
Univision Communications hires Bobby Amirshahi, ex-Time Warner Cable, now owned by Charter Communications, as senior vice president-corporate communications ... Intel moves Aicha Evans, senior vice president responsible for wireless communications, to chief strategy officer, and company looking for a new general manager, Communication and Devices Group ... Everspin Technologies elects to board Kevin Conley, ex-SanDisk, and Mike Gustafson, ex-Virident Systems; Bob England, retiring from board, effective in May ... Lobbyist registration: Wireless Infrastructure Association, Signal Group Consulting, effective Jan. 1.