Communications Personals
Kirkland & Ellis adds Ellisen Turner, ex-Irell & Manella, as partner-intellectual property; clients have been in media and entertainment technology and semiconductors ... Akin Gump adds from Finnegan Henderson Andrew Holtman and Brandon Rash, both partners-intellectual property, working on tech ... Hunton Andrews names ex-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) global strategy adviser, Centre for Information Policy Leadership ... Mercury names Ian McCaleb, ex-Hogan Lovells, managing director.
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D.A. Davidson hires software, security and analytics analyst Andy Nowinski, ex-Piper Jaffray ... Avetta announces Arshad Matin, ex-Paradigm, is president-CEO-board member of the company connecting telecoms with supply chain firms, succeeding John Herr, stepping down, remaining strategic adviser to board ... Riverbed appoints Rich McBee, ex-Mitel, president-CEO, replacing interim CEO David Murphy, the chairman.
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene is leaving, staying through January and remains on Alphabet board; Thomas Kurian moves to CEO (see this section, Nov. 19); Javier Soltero, ex-Microsoft, becomes vice president, G Suite ... Nate Weiner of Mozilla-owned Pocket advances to senior vice president-new product organization, New Markets, at Mozilla; Pocket Chief Technology Officer Matt Koidin becomes Pocket vice president-general manager ... Panasonic hires Celina Mikolajczak, ex-Uber, as vice president-battery technology.
Donald Trump appoints to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: Catherine Bessant, Bank of America; Fisk Johnson, S.C. Johnson & Son; Dario Gil, IBM Research; Sharon Hrynkow, Cyclo Therapeutics; A.N. Sreeram, Dow Chemical; Shane Wall, HP Labs; and Birgitta Whaley, University of California-Berkley.
Apple’s Tim Cook becomes chairman, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management advisory board ... Ripple adds Craig Phillips, ex-Treasury Department, to board ... NARUC appoints Kimberly O'Guinn, Arkansas Public Service Commission, to board.