Communications Personals
Rep.-elect Joe Cunningham, D-S.C., hires from NCTA Lane Lofton as chief of staff ... Patterson Belknap promotes to partner Alejandro Cruz, privacy and data security group ... NBC names Philip Martzolf, from Sony Pictures Television, president, NBC Affiliate Relations, succeeding Jean Dietze, retiring.
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FCC's Betsy McIntyre detailed to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s office while Policy Adviser Kate Black on maternity leave, Rosenworcel announces at Wednesday's commissioners' meeting; McIntyre is deputy chief, Wireless Bureau Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division ... Retirements announced at the meeting, by Chairman Ajit Pai: Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Deputy Chiefs Karen Peltz Strauss and Roger Goldblatt; Office of Engineering and Technology Electromagnetic Compatibility Division Chief Walter Johnston; Wireline Bureau public utility specialists Gene Gold and R.L. Smith; and Enforcement Bureau Senior Field Agent Mike Moffitt and Field Agent Andy Bennett.
Sterlite Tech adds Ayush Sharma, ex-Reliance Jio, as head-programmable networking and intelligence, and Rajesh Gangadhar, ex-Charter, as head-wireless broadband converged platforms ... Vapor IO tower collocation provider appoints Jacques Greyling, ex-Rackspace, chief operating officer ... Madison Square Garden Co. appoints Geraldine Calpin, ex-WeWork, executive vice president-chief marketing officer, with platforms including digital ... Nexstar promotes Tammy Blumhagen to vice president-general manager, North Dakota's KXMB-TV Bismarck, KXMC-TV Minot, KXMD-TV Williston, KXMA-TV Dickinson and associated digital services.
President Donald Trump to nominate Nicholas Matich as member (government-Office of Management and Budget representative), Council of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. for a three-year term ... Frontier Communications adds to board Robert Schriesheim, Truax Partners, and Michael McDonnell, IQVIA Holdings; Leroy Barnes, ex-PG&E, retires from board, effective May 7 ... National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners appoints Sarah Hofmann, Vermont Public Utility Commission, to executive committee.