Communications Personals
Motion Picture Association hires Karyn Temple, U.S. Copyright Office, as senior executive vice president-global general counsel, effective Jan. 13 ... FCC appoints Francisco Salguero, ex-Agriculture Department, chief information officer; John Skudlarek has been acting CIO ... Lisa Casias, ex-Commerce Department Office of Chief Financial Officer, joins FirstNet as deputy CEO ... ICANN advances Mandy Carver to senior vice president-government and intergovernmental organization engagement ... Brianna Manzelli, ex-Senate Commerce Committee, becomes FAA assistant administrator-communications.
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Venable announces Craig Gilley, ex-Mintz, who was just hired (see 1912030035), is a partner, heading communications practice ... Kelley Drye taps Aaron Burstein, ex-Wilkinson Barker, as partner-advertising and privacy ... Paul Weiss promotes Jonathan Ashtor to partner-intellectual property and technology ... DLA Piper had tapped Sam Deka, ex-Arnold & Porter, for partner-intellectual property and technology ... Blockchain Association promotes Kristin Smith to executive director and names Miller Whitehouse-Levine, ex-Goldstein Policy Solutions, manager ... Nielsen appoints Sandra Sims-Williams, from Publicis Groupe, senior vice president-diversity and inclusion, beginning January.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao keynotes CES Jan. 8, 11:30 a.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, Room N257 ... GVF elects Julie Zoller, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, to board (see 1912090004) ... OpenAP adds to board Jo Ann Ross, ViacomCBS, joining John Halley, also ViacomCBS; Linda Yaccarino and Krishan Bhatia, NBCUniversal; and Marianne Gambelli and Meredith Brace, Fox ... McAfee names Kathy Willard, Live Nation, to board.
Lobbyist registrations: Townes 5G, Washington Advocacy Group, effective Nov. 19 … Digital Realty Trust, Melody Clark Consulting, effective Nov. 12 ... Bitcoin Holdings and Satoshi Nakamoto Renaissance Holdings, Rulon & White on the Regulatory Certainty Act (HR-528) and Blockchain Promotion Act (HR-1361), effective Nov. 11 ... Silent Falcon Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies, O'Neill and Associates on “FAA certification process,” effective Nov. 4 ... American Radio Relay League, The Keelen Group on “radio tower regulations, spectrum for amateur and emergency communications” and other telecom policy issues, effective Nov. 1 ... Tile, Akin Gump on Trade Act Section 301 tariffs, effective Nov. 1.
More registrations: Western Digital, Arnold & Porter on “autonomous vehicle safety and technology,” effective Oct. 28 ... Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Akin Gump on “research related to quantum computing and cryptography,” effective Oct. 15 ... Oracle, American Continental Group on federal IT modernization, IP and consumer data privacy issues, effective Oct. 15 ... Tower company Roaming Networks, R&B Strategies on “expanding cell tower usage,” effective Oct. 15 ... ByteDance, Monument Advocacy, effective Oct. 8 ... Satellite tech firm AQYR Technologies, Hawley on “improving tactical and installation communications technology for the military services,” effective Aug. 2 ... Nevada Broadcasters Association, Porter Group on the Local Radio Freedom Act (House Concurrent Resolution-20/Senate Con.Res.5) and Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization, effective Jan. 1.