Communications Personals
House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., promotes Mike Bloomquist to staff director, succeeding Ray Baum, deceased (see 1802090018) ... SES board taps SES Networks CEO Steve Collar as president-CEO of the company, succeeding Karim Michel Sabbagh, leaving effective April 5 to spend time with family and pursue new interests, and also names recent Chief Financial Officer Andrew Browne of its O3b Networks as company's CFO, succeeding Padraig McCarthy, retiring during 2018 and stepping down from current job also on April 5 ... Common Cause hires Yosef Getachew, ex-Public Knowledge, as director-Media and Democracy Program, working with ex-Special Adviser Michael Copps.
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Walmart hires DOJ's Rachel Brand as executive vice president-global governance and corporate secretary, succeeding Jeff Gearhart, retired; Justice says Associate Attorney General Brand, who helped oversee Antitrust among other divisions, leaves "in the coming weeks" ... New Street Research adds analyst from Bernstein & Co. Pierre Ferragu for technology infrastructure, covering chipmakers and some tech companies, effective in April ... President Donald Trump new judicial nominees to include Mark Bennett of Starn O’Toole to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ... Harmonic names Roku adviser David Krall to its board.
Interactive Advertising Bureau elections include Scott Schiller, NBCUniversal, chairman of the IAB board, which he has done since October due to board executive changes; Rik van der Kooi, Microsoft Advertising, to vice chairman; new members Kerry Bianchi, Visto; Rita Ferro, Disney/ABC Television Group; Rajeev Goel, PubMatic; Peter Naylor, Hulu; Kim Norris, Spectrum Reach; Jonathan Schaaf, Condé Nast; Carrie Seifer, IBM; and Nada Stirratt, Facebook; and among ex-officio members Stuart Ingis, Venable LLP.