Communications Personals
Drinker Biddle's Mark Dever and Eduardo Guzmán join Squire Patton Communications Practice Group as partners ... Radio Television Digital News Association and Foundation hire ex-chairman and current foundation Secretary/Treasurer Dan Shelley as incoming executive director and, effective in September, executive director, succeeding Mike Cavender, retiring (see the personals section of the Dec. 1 issue of this publication), and providing transition assistance through Dec. 31 ... Zayo hires from Level 3, which CenturyLink is buying, Andrew Crouch as president-chief operating officer, effective April 27, succeeding Chris Morley, remaining during a transition.
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Interactive Advertising Bureau hires Chris Kuist, ex-Weather Co., as senior vice president-research and impact ... Akin Gump moves Hunter Bates and Brian Pomper to co-leaders, public law and policy practice, succeeding Donald Pongrace, the current practice head who rotates out of the position and otherwise remains in his roles at the law firm ... Mercury promotions: John Lonergan to partner; Michael Crittenden and Dan Wilson to senior vice presidents; Jennifer Kaufmann and Andrew Wright to vice presidents; and Michelle Kim to senior associate ... ACLU hires Leigh Honeywell, ex-Slack, as a fellow.
Lionsgate promotes Kristine Klimczak to executive vice president-assistant treasurer and appoints to succeed her Kate Davies, who has consulted for the company, as senior vice president-accounting and finance ... SonicWall hires Ravi Chopra, ex-Juniper Networks, as chief financial officer, new position created by spinoff into an independent company ... Zinwave adds wireless executive Christian Barb as senior vice president-global sales ... MapD Technologies hires Ché Wijesinghe, ex-Neokami, to lead global sales, sales engineering and customer success as a senior vice president ... Passur Aerospace adds Doug Hofsass, ex-Aircraft Service International Group, as senior vice president-airports and business aviation, new position ... Reliance Communications' Mark Russell moves to Global Cloud Xchange managing director, GCX International, continuing as president-Europe.
Senate confirms Elaine Duke as deputy homeland security secretary ... President Donald Trump nominates Mira Ricardel, now special assistant to the president and associate director for presidential personnel, as undersecretary of commerce for export administration, lead position at Bureau of Industry and Security ... NARUC President Robert Powelson names New York Public Service Commissioner Diane Burman to the association's board.