Communications Personals
Latham & Watkins advances Brenda Danek, patent litigation, and Inge Osman, intellectual property litigation, to partners and Herman Yue, patent litigation, to counsel ... FCC Media Bureau Video Division Deputy Chief Hossein Hashemzadeh retires Jan. 3 ... CenturyLink moves David Young to senior vice president-newly formed public sector group and Sonia Ramsey to regional vice president-state and local government and education.
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Foley & Lardner hires Stephen Smerek, ex-Winston & Strawn, as partner-intellectual property ... Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan retiring ... Tegna promotes Doug Wieder to president-general manager, WVEC Hampton, Virginia.
Space Foundation elects Chairwoman Kathryn Thornton, ex-NASA; Vice Chairman Jeffrey Grant, ex-Northrop Grumman; Secretary Peter Trainer, BAE Systems; Treasurer Thomas Feeney, Associated Industries of Florida; director emeritus William Shelton, ex-Air Force; life directors Michael Gass, ex-United Launch Alliance; Fritz Merkle, OHB; and journalist P.J. O'Rourke; board members Hoyt Davidson, Near Earth; Nicolas Chamussy, Airbus; Paul Engola, Leidos; Samuel Greaves, ex-Air Force; and Jeanne Meserve, ex-CNN; and new-generation space leader Lauren Smith, Northrop Grumman.
Society of Broadcast Engineers elects to board Roswell Clark and Geary Morrill; and names committee chairs Ched Keiler, bylaws; Geary Morrill, education; Clark, electronic communications, a new committee; Ted Hand, frequency coordination; Jim Leifer, nominations; Jason Ornellas, publications; and Vinny Lopez, sustaining membership.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, steps down from Facebook board, for personal reasons ... Apple investor relations head Nancy Paxton says she’s retiring year-end.