Communications Personals
Google promotes Senior Vice President-General Counsel Kent Walker to senior vice president-global affairs to oversee policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams ... American Tower Executive Vice President and President-U.S. Tower Division Steven Marshall steps down, succeeded by the unit's Senior Vice President-General Counsel Steve Vondran; Marshall becomes strategic adviser, reporting to Chairman-CEO Jim Taiclet, through Oct. 31 ... Cox Enterprises adds consultant-adviser Luis Avila-Marco, ex-Juniper Networks and Scientific-Atlanta, now part of Cisco, as senior vice president-strategy and corporate development.
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Center for Democracy & Technology hires Elizabeth Laird, ex-D.C. Office of State Superintendent of Education, as senior fellow to lead Student Privacy Project, which also gets support from Adarsh Mahesh ... Shawn Powers, former executive director of U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, joins Broadcasting Board of Governors as senior adviser.
Syncbak appoints as vice presidents Dean Mandel, ex-CoxReps, for advertising sales and Noreen Thurston, ex-GoDaddy, in marketing ... NFL Media hires Greg Polcsa from Amazon Studios as vice president-franchise and network marketing ... iMiller Public Relations adds Sandra De Novellis, ex-KDDI, as vice president-engagement strategy and business development and promotes Mindy Gibson to vice president-client relations ... Baretz+Brunelle hires Amy Hanan, ex-Reorg Research, as chief digital officer at the communications adviser to law firms and others.
Nominations sent to the Senate for Bill Cooper to be general counsel-Department of Energy (see this section of the July 31 issue), Steven Croley resigned; and at Department of Commerce Thomas Gilman for assistant secretary-chief financial officer, Ellen Herbst resigned ... MulteFire Alliance adds SoftBank to its board of directors, with Yoshioki Chika, senior director-SoftBank Solution Strategy Office, as the director.