Communications Personals
America’s Communications Association hires John Higginbotham, ex-Frankfort Plant Board, as executive vice president-membership and finance and chief of staff, succeeding Rob Shema (see this section, Feb. 14) ... Perkins Coie announces partners, from Vinson & Elkins, Andy Smetana, corporate-tech; Craig Tyler, patent litigation; and Wendy Wang, intellectual property; and from Wilson Sonsini, Jose Villarreal, also patent litigation ... DLA Piper taps, from Squire Patton, Matthew Miller as partner-cryptocurrency; Robert Nolan, partner-intellectual property; and Michael Fluhr, of counsel-blockchain and digital assets ... Industry Data Exchange Association names David Oldfather, ex-Jigsaw Systems, president-CEO.
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Kansas City Southern promotes Adam Godderz to senior vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... Yelp hires David Schwarzbach, ex-Optimizely, as chief financial officer; and names Christine Barone, True Food Kitchen, to board, replacing Mariam Naficy, resigned ... NSSLGlobal taps Neil Fraser, ex-Viasat, for defense and space programs.
Nielsen names Tom Castro, El Dorado Capital, and Janice Marinelli, ex-Disney, to board ... Nano Dimension appoints Yaron Eitan, DeepCube, to board of the provider of intelligent machines for making subassemblies in drones, satellites, smartphones and other devices.