Communications Personals
Jones Day adds Nicole Smith, ex-Morrison & Foerster, as partner-intellectual property ... With Overstock CEO and board member Patrick Byrne’s resignation, Jonathan Johnson, president of subsidiary Medici Ventures, becomes also interim CEO, and Chief Algorithms Officer Kamelia Aryafar becomes also board member; Byrne’s resignation followed his acknowledgement of involvement in what he says realized was “political espionage” ... Qualcomm moves Akash Palkhiwala to interim chief financial officer, replacing interim CFO Dave Wise, who retires, remains consultant.
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Lobbyist registrations: Starz, Carmen Group on FCC and antitrust issues, effective Aug. 9 ... Facebook, FS Vector on “blockchain policy,” effective Aug. 5 ... PC Matic, American Defense International, effective Aug. 1 ... TiVo-Rovi, Covington & Burling, effective July 29 ... Huawei, Federal Advocates, effective July 24 ... California State University, San Bernardino, Holland & Knight on cybersecurity, effective July 8 ... CoinRegTech, McCarty Financial on cryptocurrency, digital assets and other issues, effective July 3 ... French autonomous vehicle company Navya, Holland & Knight, effective July 3 ... Huawei, Sidley Austin effective July 1 ... Low-income-focused software developer Propel, Glover Park Group, effective July 1 ... Clark Street Associates on behalf of PSI Quantum, K&L Gates on quantum computing, effective July 1 ... Data infrastructure services provider Segment.io, Monument Advocacy on data privacy, effective July 1 ... App developer Perry Street Software, McGuireWoods Consulting on privacy and “general” tech, effective April 22 ... U.S. Television Coalition, Public Interest Research and Communications on retransmission consent language in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, effective June 19.