Communications Personals
NCTA names Mary Beth Murphy, ex-Facebook, vice president and deputy general counsel-legal and regulatory affairs ... GCI appoints Rebecca Windt Pearson general counsel; she's from Municipality of Anchorage and begins at the company Feb. 1; she succeeds Tina Pidgeon, resigns year-end and adviser through April 15; Pearson had previously worked for the cable-telco ... Consumer Reports hires Cyrus Rassool, from Glen Echo Group, as associate director-strategic communications for technology and privacy, with newly launched Digital Lab.
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Sierra Wireless Chief Financial Officer Dave McLennan retiring ... IHeartMedia New York promotes Bernie Weiss to president ... Wireless Innovation Forum elects Richard Bernhardt, Wireless ISP Association; David Gurney, Motorola; Eric Nicollet, Thales; and Naotaka Sato, Sony; outgoing members are Bruce Oberlies, Motorola Solutions, and Marc Adrat, Fraunhofer ... TechNet names Greg Becker, Silicon Valley Bank, as chairman, two-year term starting Jan. 1.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Precision Agriculture Task Force (see 1912060010) working group leaders: Mapping and Analyzing Connectivity on Agricultural Lands Chair Michael Adelaine, South Dakota State University, and Vice Chair Sreekala Bajwa, Montana State University; Examining Current and Future Connectivity Demand for Precision Agriculture Chair Daniel Leibfried, John Deere, and Vice Chair Blake Hurst, Missouri Farm Bureau; Encouraging Adoption of Precision Agriculture and Availability of High-Quality Jobs on Connected Farms Chair Mike McCormick, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, and Vice Chair Julie Bushell, Paige Wireless, for Irrigation Association; and Accelerating Broadband Deployment on Unserved Agricultural Lands Chair Jeff Pettit, Noash Construction, for National Association of Tower Erectors, and Vice Chair Heather Hampton, Knodle Farms, for American Agri-Women.