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White House said Tuesday evening that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey; we couldn't reach anyone at the bureau to comment by our deadline ... Attorney and ex-state Sen. Keith Jordan named to Tennessee Public Utility Commission to fill balance of an unexpired term, until June 30, 2018 ... Leaving NAB for 21st Century Fox: Jamie Gillespie becomes vice president in the Global Public Affairs and Policy group, effective June 5 ... Ready Wireless hires Joe Peterson, ex-Telit, as president, Ready IoT ... General Electric appointments include Mo Cowan, ex-ML Strategies and Mintz Levin, named vice president-litigation and legal policy, and Kevin Ichhpurani, ex-Ernst & Young, as executive vice president-global ecosystem and channels, GE Digital ... Polycom hires Tarun Loomba, ex-SanDisk, as executive vice president-solutions management.
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Nuix board promotes Rod Vawdrey to CEO ... Violin Memory, recently bought by Quantum Partners, adds James Curley, ex-LeapFrog Enterprises, as chief financial officer ... Joining Malwarebytes in new posts as senior vice presidents: Raj Mallempati, ex-MobileIron, for marketing and Elena Verna, ex-SurveyMonkey, growth ... Staples names from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Brett Wahlin as chief information security officer ... Mouser Electronics promotes Mark Burr-Lonnon to senior vice president-global service and Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific business ... CyberArk adds Marianne Budnik, ex-SimpliVity, taken over by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as chief marketing officer ... Videa platform for automated TV advertising names Oscar Rondon, ex-TubeMogul, vice president-product.
National Public Safety Telecommunications Council names as chair of the Technology and Broadband Committee Kim Coleman Madsen, also chair of NPSTC's Broadband Emerging Technologies Working Group and at the Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; she succeeds at the Technology and Broadband Committee Tom Sorley, who now chairs the FirstNet Public Safety Advisory Committee and is with the Houston information technology department (see 1704030020).
FCC names to Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee groups (see 1704060038): at Model Code for Municipalities, Douglas Dimitroff, Phillips Lytle, chair; San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, vice chair; and as members Richard Bennett, High Tech Forum; Debra Berlyn, National Consumers League board; Chris Bondurant, AT&T Mobile; Jaime Fink, Mimosa Networks; Miguel Gamiño, aide to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D); Marc Ganzi, Digital Bridge; Debbie Goldman, Communications Workers of America; Michael Grover, Cox Communications; Robert Hance, Midwest Energy Cooperative; Larry Hanson, city manager of Valdosta, Georgia; Diane Griffin Holland, USTelecom; Marc Hudson, Rocket Fiber; Kim Keenan, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council; Geoffrey Manne, International Center for Law and Economics; Jim Matheson, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; David Mayo, T-Mobile USA; Milo Medin, Google Fiber; Brian Mefford, Connected Nation Exchange; Genevieve Morelli, ITTA; Larry Thompson, Vantage Point Solutions; Steve Vondran, American Tower; and Jason Williams, Blackfoot; and on Model Code for States Kelly McGriff, Southern Light, chair; Karen Charles Peterson, Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable, vice chair; and as members Allen Bell, Georgia Power; Scott Bergmann, CTIA; Elizabeth Bowles, Aristotle; Doug Brake, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Kelleigh Cole, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development; Brigitte Daniel, Wilco Electronic Systems; David Don, Comcast; Fink of Mimosa; Heather Burnett Gold, Fiber Broadband Association; Carlos Gutierrez, LGBT Technology Partnership and Institute; Michael Hain, Nittany Media; Betsy Huber, National Grange; Kathy Johnson, Alabama Office of Broadband Development; Connected Nation Exchange's Mefford; Robert Pepper, Facebook; Ken Pfister, Great Plains Communications; Michael Potter, Geeks Without Frontiers board; Ed Roach, SBA Communications; Kansas Rep. Tom Sloan (R); Tom Stroup, Satellite Industry Association; Brian Tagaban, Sacred Wind Communications; Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania; and Martin Yudkovitz, Cincinnati Bell board.