Communications Personals
Hogan Lovells hires Edith Ramirez, ex-FTC, as partner and co-head, Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice and she will also help Privacy and Cybersecurity practice ... Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen picks Ian Conner, in Antitrust & Competition group at Kirkland & Ellis, as acting deputy director, Competition Bureau, effective Sept. 18 ... 21st Century Fox elevates Peter Rice to president ... Nutter law firm adds from Stroz Friedberg Seth Berman as a partner and working in areas including the Privacy and Data Security practice group.
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CTA hires Jennifer Taylor, ex-AARP, as vice president-U.S. jobs ... BSA | The Software Alliance hires from Department of Homeland Security Holly Canevari as chief of staff and vice president-strategy and operations ... Crown Castle Senior Vice President-Chief Operating Officer James Young named to lead fiber solutions activities in those posts; Robert Ackerman moves to those posts for towers and small cells ... Verance hires Eric Anderson, ex-Gracenote, as senior vice president-chief partnership officer, responsible for developing "go-to-market" partnerships for Verance Aspect watermark technology written into suite of ATSC 3.0 standards.
CyberGRX, third-party cyber risk management platform, hires Ellis Rosenzweig, ex-Inspirato, as general counsel ... Gamco's Gabelli Funds changes/expands Global Telecommunications Fund to Gabelli Global Content & Connectivity Fund, and investment team adds Brett Harriss, ex-G-Research, joining Mario Gabelli, Sergey Dluzhevskiy and Evan Miller ... Cypress Semiconductor appoints Catherine Lego, also a Lam Research and IPG Photonics director, to its board ... Microsemi appoints Richard Beyer, ex-Freescale Semiconductor CEO, to its board.
President Donald Trump White House appointments include Kirstjen Nielsen, ex-Department of Homeland Security, as assistant to the president and principal deputy chief of staff; and nominations sent to the Senate including for Rep. James Bridenstine, R-Okla., as administrator, NASA (see this section of the Sept. 6 issue of this publication); John Demers as assistant attorney general; Andrei Iancu as director-Patent and Trademark Office; Adam Klein (see 1708290013) as chairman, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for remainder of term expiring Jan. 29; David Medine resigned, and Klein also nominated for a term ending Jan. 29, 2024; Jonathan Mitchell as chairman, Administrative Conference of the U.S.; and Stephen Vaden as general counsel, Department of Agriculture.