Communications Personals
Akin Gump names Karen Christian, ex-House Commerce Committee, as partner, congressional investigations practice ... Wolf Greenfield promotes intellectual property and patent litigation lawyer Greg Corbett to chair, litigation practice ... PayPal hires Philip Swartzfager, ex-office of then-Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, federal government relations manager ... Snap moves Chief Accounting Officer Lara Sweet to interim chief financial officer and principal financial officer until it replaces Tim Stone, resigning (see this section, Jan. 17).
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ThreatX appoints Chris Brazdziunas, ex-LogRhythm, chief product officer ... Fahrenheit IT announces Paul Taylor, ex-Solving IT, as division president ... House Homeland Security Committee ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., says leaders, including John Katko, R-N.Y., ranking member-Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Innovation Subcommittee.
Telecommunications Industry Association elects officers including Deepti Arora, Nokia, chair; Jennifer Pentecost Sims, Power & Telephone Supply, secretary; Doug Moore, Fujitsu Network Communications, treasurer; and board members Trevor Smith, CommScope, and Sankaran Ramanathan, Verizon Wireless; and new member companies and representatives Crown Castle-Rebecca Hunter and Henkels & McCoy-Carmine Battafarano.
ICANN names to Working Group on Anti-Harassment: Chair Sarah Deutsch, Winterfeldt IP Group; Becky Burr, Neustar; Chris Disspain, ex-.au Domain Administration; Avri Doria, research consultant; Rafael Lito Ibarra, SVNet; Manal Ismail, National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt; Merike Kaeo, Double Shot Security; and Tripti Sinha, University of Maryland.