Communications Personals
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Chief of Staff Mark Isakowitz departs for Google; Portman elevates Kevin Smith to chief of staff and Emily Benavides succeeds Smith as communications director; Google hires Isakowitz to run its Washington public policy office; company says he's named vice president and head-government affairs and public policy, U.S. and Canada ... Meredith promotes General Counsel-Local Media Group Joshua Pila to general counsel-local media and entertainment.
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Disney hires Brad Wilson, ex-LendingTree, for Direct-to-Consumer and International segment as executive vice president-performance marketing, Disney+ and ESPN+ ... Adtran adds Dan Whalen, ex-Arris, as chief product officer ... Riverbed moves up Dan Smoot to chief operating officer and appoints Alpna Doshi, ex-Royal Philips, as company’s first-ever chief digital officer.
House Homeland Security Committee ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala., says Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., joins committee; Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, leaves ... Ex-Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., decides to run again for Congress; CTA volunteer leaders who worked with Issa at the association that he used to chair declare their support ... President Donald Trump to nominate Federal Emergency Management Agency Deputy Administrator Peter Gaynor as FEMA administrator, from acting basis.
Rural Wireless Association elections include Mike Higgins, West Central Wireless, and Eric Cramer, RiverStreet Networks, to the board; Bert Potts, Strata Networks, is incoming president-CEO; and Jana Wallace, Panhandle Telecommunications Systems, becomes RWA vice president; as Jake Baldwin, Bravado Wireless, named secretary.
ICANN team for first internet assigned numbers authority naming function review: Frederico Neves, Peter Koch, Unguec Stephen Kang, Rick Wilhelm, Jean-Christophe Vignes, Kristian Ørmen, Christian Dawson, Tomslin Samme-Nlar, Andreas Dlamini, Patrik Faltstrom, Suzanne Woolf, Kaili Kan and James Gannon; and Kim Davies, public technical identifiers liaison, and Steve Conte, ICANN liaison.