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Squire Patton names as partner tech lawyer Simon Jones, ex-Eversheds Sutherland ... Committee to Protect Journalists hires from the Center for Inquiry as newly created Washington advocacy manager Michael De Dora Salesforce adds Niki Christoff, ex-Uber, as senior vice president-strategy and government relations ... AT&T moves Betsy Francis to oversee mobility and consumer markets in Mid-Atlantic states as vice president-general manager ... Vapor IO data center firm appoints Don Duet, ex-Goldman Sachs, president-chief operating officer.

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To oversee KidsClick, daily national programming block launching July 1, Sinclair names Daniel Barnathan, ex-Disney Kids, Saban Brands and 4Kids Entertainment, vice president-family and children’s programming and sales ... Comodo appoints Carlos Solari, ex-Mission Secure, vice president-cyber security services ... RG, management and technology/IP services firm, appointments include Liam Speden, ex-Autodesk, as chief technology officer ... Senate confirms 95-4 Brock Long as administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Caroline Beasley, Beasley Media, elected NAB joint board chair, succeeding Dave Lougee, Tegna, among other elections ... Elected to board of SoftBank: Marcelo Claure, Sprint; Rajeev Misra, SoftBank Investment Advisors; Simon Segars, ARM; Mark Schwartz, Goldman Sachs; and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.