Communications Personals
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross names Cordell Hull, ex-House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, deputy undersecretary for industry and security, expected to replace acting Deputy Undersecretary Carol Rose, and moves Joe Semsar to deputy undersecretary at the International Trade Administration.
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Panasonic Avionics taps Ken Sain, ex-Boeing, as CEO, succeeding Hideo Nakano, who becomes special adviser ... Viacom and CBS name upon close of ViacomCBS Executive Vice Presidents Alex Berkett, from Viacom, for corporate development and strategy; Nancy Phillips, from Nielsen, chief people officer; Marva Smalls, from Viacom, global head-inclusion; and Jose Tolosa, from Viacom, chief transformation officer.
Indiana University creates Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab, co-directed by university’s David Wild, associate professor-informatics, and Matthew Link and Robert Henschel, both IT services ... LTN Global advances Eric Zornes to director-operations, Niles Media ... Riedel Communications appoints Jason Ross, from Applied Electronics, sales manager-Canada.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names to Precision Agriculture Task Force (see 1911190014) Chair Teddy Bekele, Land O’Lakes; Vice Chair Catherine Moyer, Pioneer Communications; and members Michael Adelaine, South Dakota State University; Seth Arndorfer, Dakota Carrier Network; Dale Artho, Deaf Smith County, Texas; Andy Bater, Fifth Estate Growers; Peter Brent, New Vision Farms; Chris Chinn, Missouri Agriculture Department; Anthony Dillard, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; David Goldman, SpaceX; Michael Gomes, Topcon Agriculture; Daniel Leibfried, John Deere; Mike McCormick, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Jeff Pettit, National Association of Tower Erectors; and Steve Vail, NineStar Connect; ex-officio Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue or his designee; and from the FCC, Jesse Jachman, designated federal officer, and Erin Boone and Celia Lewis, deputy designated federal officer.
CTIA adds Bill Dudley, SAP Digital Interconnect, to board, effective Jan. 1 ... Mobile Marketing Association appoints to North American board Jonathan Beamer, Monster; Jim Daily, Teads; Jeremy Hlavacek, IBM Watson Advertising; Les Hollander, Spotify; Walker Jacobs, Twitch; Joshua Lowcock, Universal McCann; Matt Ramerman, Sinch Engage; Stephanie Redish Hofmann, Google; and Dara Treseder, Carbon.