Communications Personals
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly hires Deputy Chief of Staff for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Brooke Ericson as chief of staff, press contact and media adviser, effective Oct. 2, succeeding Robin Colwell, now at House Commerce Committee (see 1705260034) ... FCC's Louis Peraertz returns from Office of General Counsel to office of Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, as senior legal adviser on wireless, international and public safety; Daudeline Meme, wireless, international and public safety legal adviser, leaving Clyburn's office, didn't confirm plans.
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Coalfire appoints Michael Chao, ex-KeyPoint Government Solutions, chief financial officer ... Time Warner's Turner Ignite elevates Otto Bell to chief creative officer, CNN’s Courageous, a "branded studio" involving "multi-screen brands CNN, HLN and Great Big Story" ... Madison Square Garden Co. adds Nick Allen, ex-Twitch, as head, e-sports division, effective Oct 2.
Twitter adds Patrick Pichette, ex-Google, to the board, effective Dec. 1; Hugh Johnston going to Microsoft board, and resigns from Twitter board, effective Oct. 1 ... EBay adds Adriane Brown, Intellectual Ventures, and Diana Farrell, founding president-CEO of JPMorgan Chase Institute, to its board ... The Optical Society elects Stephen Fantone, Optikos, 2018 vice president, and on path to be president in 2020; and picked as directors-at-large Roel Baets, Ghent University; Gisele Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Ekaterina Golovchenko, IPG Photonics.