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Wilkinson Barker appoints media and telecom partner Natalie Roisman as also director, WBK Forward, new social responsibility program ... Patent and Trademark Office appoints acting Patent Trial and Appeal Board Chief Judge Scott Boalick to permanent role ... Honigman adds Kelley Goldberg, ex-Intel, as partner, Intellectual Property department ... Rockefeller Foundation moves interim Chief Operating Officer Steve VanRoekel, ex-U.S. chief information officer and ex-FCC, to permanent COO.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces staff changes: Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels resign; Will Cathcartmoves to head WhatsApp; Fidji Simo becomes head of Facebook app and Javier Olivan moves to "lead identifying where our apps should be more integrated" ... Eutelsat appoints Julie Burguburu, ex-French government Council of State, as company secretary, succeeding Edouard Silverio ... Tru Optik appoints Jonathan Bokor, ex-Publicis Media, chief privacy and business affairs officer.

Tesla promotes Zachary Kirkhorn to chief financial officer, succeeding Deepak Ahuja (see this section, Feb. 1), and Vaibhav Taneja to chief accounting officer ... Airgain names Chairman-interim CEO James Sims permanent chief ... Regulatory Commission of Alaska OKs nomination of Juliana Wayman, General Communication's United Utilities, to board of Alaska Universal Service Administrative Co., as AUSAC asked; term ends February 2022.

CTAM elects board including new officers Rick Lang, Comcast, chair; and for marketing co-op board Sharon Peters, Charter Communications, chair, and David McNaughton, Mediacom, vice chair; board extends contract of President-CEO Vicki Lins for three years ...EchoStar appoints Jeffrey Tarr, TPG, to board.