Communications Personals
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Nick Degani, who was Pai's senior counsel, acting general counsel; Jennifer Tatel, who has been doing that job, departing for the private sector, no specific plans announced ... Sprint hires from Vodafone Ivo Rook to newly created position of senior vice president-IoT, effective Jan. 1; and he's liaison officer to SoftBank Group of companies involved in IoT ... Cox Media Group's Tom Raponi retiring from WFXT Boston, where he has been vice president-general manager, effective at year's end ... G+D Mobile Security adds Sridhar Ramachandran as vice president-IoT solutions, Americas region ... President Donald Trump nominations sent to the Senate for jurists include Gregory Katsas for U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see this section of the Sept. 8 issue of this publication); Janice Brown had retired.
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Among other members named to the FCC Diversity and Digital Empowerment Committee (see 1709080034): Maria Brennan, Women in Cable Telecommunications; Ron Busby, U.S. Black Chambers; Victor Cerda, Vme Media; Brigitte Daniel, Wilco Electronic Systems; Jannette Dates, Howard University School of Communications dean emerita and subject matter expert-special government employee; Linda Spradley Dunn, Odyssey Media; Andre Fernandez, CBS Radio; Maurita Coley Flippin, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council; Heather Gate, Connected Nation; David Honig, JulGlo Productions; Janice Bryant Howroyd, Act-1 Group and a subject matter expert-special government employee; Ronald Johnson, Wireless Infrastructure Association, and chief subject matter expert-diversity and inclusion; Sherman Kizart, Kizart Media Partners; Fatema Kothari, San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society; Mario Lopez, Hispanic Leadership Fund; Marc Morial, National Urban League; Javier Palomarez, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Alfredo Rodriguez, Dish Network; Brian Scarpelli, ACT | The App Association; Xin (Cindy) Shao, Asian American Chamber of Commerce; Marie Sylla-Dixon, T-Mobile; Nicol Turner-Lee, Brookings Institution; Brent Wilkes, League of United Latin American Citizens; and Chris Wood, LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute.