Communications Personals
With Vanita Gupta, ex-head of DOJ Civil Rights Division, starting as president-CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Gupta adds Kristine Lucius, ex-Senate Judiciary Committee staff, as executive vice president for policy; Seema Nanda, ex-Department of Labor, as executive vice president-chief operating officer; and Ashley Allison, ex-White House Office of Public Engagement, as senior adviser; Lucius, Nanda and Allison join Ellen Buchman, executive vice president-field and communications, on senior leadership team; Gupta succeeds Wade Henderson, stepped down effective May 31; also stepping down are Karen Lawson, executive vice president-COO, and Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president-policy.
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Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission adds Mark Johnson, ex-Washington State Agriculture Department, as director-administrative services ... Sinclair promotes Joseph Fishleigh to general manager, WLOS Asheville, North Carolina, succeeding Jack Connors, retired; Fishleigh also oversees WMYA-TV Anderson, South Carolina ... Keith Wilkinson retires as chief operating officer of U.K.’s Digital TV Group, his duties to be assumed by Financial Director Fiona Headon and Human Resources Director Hellena Briscoe.
Salesforce hires Corey duBrowa, ex-Starbucks, as executive vice president-chief communications officer, effective in July ... James Finn named executive vice president/head-marketing at recently created FoxNext, which works across Twentieth Century Fox Film and Fox Networks Group on issues including virtual reality, gaming and interactive; he continues at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment as executive vice president/co-head of marketing.
BAE Systems adds to board ex-Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who also is on News Corp. board ... Computer & Communications Industry Association names as chairman Bruce Aitken, Aitken Berlin, succeeding Ed Peters, OpenConnect ... Allied Motion Technologies appoints to board Timothy Tevens, ex-Columbus McKinnon.