Communications Personals
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden appoints Associate Register-Copyrights Maria Strong to acting register of copyrights and director, Copyright Office, succeeding Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple (see this section, Dec. 10) ... FTC Chairman Joseph Simons promotes Ian Conner to Competition Bureau director and Daniel Francis to deputy director; Gail Levine also deputy director ... President Donald Trump moving Department of Homeland Assistant Secretary-Cyber, Infrastructure and Resilience Policy Bryan Ware to assistant director-cybersecurity.
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New TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellows: Victoria Houed, ex-Cards Against Humanity; Jennie Kam, ex-Cisco; Anna Lenhart, ex-IBM; Walter Pope, ex-Navy; Peter Terpeluk, ex-Google; and John Yaros, ex-Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Comcast advertising sales division Effectv appoints James Rooke, from FreeWheel Publishers, general manager … PeerStream advances Jason Katz to CEO, replacing Alex Harrington, separates from company and resigns from board; Katz remains also president, chief operating officer and chairman ... LBI Media promotes to executive vice presidents Ivan Stoilkovich, TV programming, and Jason Hall, advertising sales ... NAB adds DeDe Lea, ViacomCBS, to TV board ... Technology Policy Institute names Bryan Tramont, Wilkinson Barker, to board ... National Association of State Chief Information Officers taps Washington Chief Information Officer Jim Weaver and Utah Chief Information Officer Michael Hussey for executive committee.