Communications Personals
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai moves from acting to permanent advisers in his office, he announces at commissioners' meeting: Aaron Goldberger for wireless and Alexander Sanjenis for media; FCC Public Safety Bureau industry analyst Larry Synder retiring ... Wilkinson Barker taps Nicholas Alexander, ex-CenturyLink, as partner-broadband and intellectual property ... Ex-LMG staffers open new communications firm, Shape Advocacy: Ted Kalo and Sam Sokol as founding partners and Casey Murray as director.
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Ballard Spahr hires from Leopold Petrich media and entertainment lawyers Louis Petrich, Vincent Cox, Donald Gordon, Robert Gutierrez, Elizabeth Schilken and Loralee Sundra ... Industrial Internet Consortium, which announces collaboration with Trusted IoT Alliance, promotes Howard Kradjel to vice president-industry programs ... IBM announces closing of acquisition of Red Hat, with the latter’s President-CEO Jim Whitehurst continuing in those roles.
Avnet promotes Pete Bartolotta to president-business transformation ... JC2 Ventures appoints Yvette Kanouff, ex-Cisco, partner and chief technology officer ... NCC Media names Senior Vice Presidents Frank LaPlaca, ex-Accordion Partners, corporate development, and Ari Turner, ex-Xandr, sale operations ... Cyber Defense Group names Conor Sherman, ex-Clear, managing partner and cybersecurity expert, and Jacob Horne senior security consultant ... BET Networks names Devin Griffin, ex-Story Lab US, general manager, BET Plus.
Northrop Grumman elects CEO-President Kathy Warden as also chairman, succeeding Wes Bush, retiring and resigning from board ... Bluetooth Special Interest Group names Haipeng Jin, Telink Semiconductor, to board ... NeoPhotonics appoints Yanbing Li, Google, to board.