Communications Personals
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International taps Richard King, from Aviation International Software, as senior vice president-regulatory and international affairs ... Intellectual property law firm Wolf Greenfield promotes to shareholders Bryan Conley, IP litigation; Elisabeth Hunt, post-grant proceedings; and Zachary Piccolomini, IP.
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Communications Workers of America hires Emma Kinema, Game Workers Unite founder, and Wes McEnany, from Fight for 15, to lead new Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA) to support workers’ organizing efforts in technology and game industries ... Comcast appoints Marci Ryvicker, from Wolfe Research, senior vice president-investor relations ... Wi-Fi security firm WatchGuard names Andy Reinland, ex-F5 Networks, chief financial officer, replacing Rich Barber, leaves company.
Gray Television Senior Vice President-Local Media Brad Streit retiring, effective Feb. 12; WVUE New Orleans General Manager Tim Ingram named successor ... Comscore taps Amir Yazdani, ex-Rentrak, as strategic adviser to CEO ... 20th Century Fox Television President-Business Operations Howard Kurtzman retiring in June, succeeded by Carolyn Cassidy, ex-president-creative affairs ... Newsmax TV names Elliot Jacobson, from RLTV, executive vice president-programming-chief content officer ... Meredith advances Steve Doerr to vice president-general manager of western Massachusetts news.
President Donald Trump nominating John Johnson, Covington & Burling, as FCC inspector general ... 5G Americas elects Igal Elbaz, AT&T, board chair ... ASTM International announces board members Francine Bovard, Arconic, and Michael Brisson, Savannah River National Laboratory.
Lobbyist registrations: Comcast, NVG on “video marketplace,” copyright and “content protection,” effective Dec. 15 … IT firm Red River, Scofes & Associates Consulting, effective Dec. 12 ... Rural wireless ISP Space Between Enterprises, Alpha Strategies, effective Dec. 9 ... Software company QUISnet, American Capitol Group on cybersecurity, effective Dec. 2 ... Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics, Franklin Square Group, effective Dec. 1 ... Fox, HillNorth on Satellite TV Extension and Localism Act “expiration,” retransmission consent, online privacy, spectrum, media ownership and “children’s educational TV programming,” effective Nov. 26 ... Verizon, HillNorth on “Communications Act reform” and other issues, effective Nov. 20 ... Bitcoin Association, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, effective Nov. 4 ... Cognizant Technology Solutions, Signal Group Consulting, effective Nov. 2 ... Comcast, King & Spaulding on carriage, effective Nov. 1 ... Wireless Infrastructure Association, Elevate Government Affairs on “wireless infrastructure deployment, tower marking, federal lands and federal apprenticeship grants” and implementing the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, effective Oct. 1.