Communications Personals
The Alpine Group advances to principal Les Spivey and to associate principals Ansley Erdel, Michael Henry, Courtney Johnson and Jason Schendle ... Jenner & Block hires Patrick Pearsall, ex-State Department, as partner, effective June 22, and chair, newly formed Public International Law Practice and member, International Arbitration and Government Controversies and Public Policy Litigation practices ... Shentel Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer Earle MacKenzie to retire after successor is found and after a transition period ... Comcast moves up John Gauder to regional vice president-California, succeeding Hank Fore, retired.
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Cozen O’Connor adds as members and to Intellectual Property Department, intellectual property litigators from Norton Rose: Erik Swenson and Patrick Gallagher ... Palo Alto Networks hires Coleman Mehta, ex-National Security Council, as senior director-U.S. policy ... ICANN hires Bryan Schilling, ex-Hasbro, as organization's first consumer safeguards director, effective June 1 ... Dorsey & Whitney adds Erin Kolter, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, to Intellectual Property Litigation Group as of counsel ... Twitter hires Todd Swidler, ex-ESC Games, as global head-live business ... New at Linux Foundation: Sheryl Chamberlain, ex-Capgemini, as chief of staff.
Among other Ford internal moves (see this section of the May 23 issue of this publication) are Marcy Klevorn to executive vice president and president-mobility and Paul Ballew to global chief data and analytics officer, reporting to Klevorn ... BluVector appoints Travis Rosiek, ex-Tychon, chief technology and strategy officer ... 8x8 names Rani Hublou, ex-Comprehend Systems, chief marketing officer ... Upskill, provider of enterprise software for augmented reality devices, adds Jeremy Kirsch, ex-Opower, which Oracle bought last year, as chief operating officer ... Joining Axiom to head operations in Germany: Matthias Schwenke, ex-Deutsche Telekom ... President Donald Trump nominating Richard Ashooh, University System of New Hampshire, as assistant secretary of commerce for export administration.