Communications Personals
Wilson Sonsini taps Keith Klovers, from FTC, as of counsel-antitrust ... Vivint Smart Home's Alex Dunn stepping down as president, remaining adviser through March 2021, with Chief Operating Officer Scott Hardy assuming many of his daily responsibilities; promotes Dale Gerard to chief financial officer and Todd Santiago to chief revenue officer; moves JT Hwang to chief technology officer; and Matthew Eyring, executive vice president and general manager-inside sales, and Jeremy Warren, chief technology officer, both “leaving to pursue other opportunities.”
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Univision names Hector Martinez-Souss, ex-SM Group, president-general manager, Univision Puerto Rico and WOLE-DT Aguadilla … Entertainment Studios promotes Barbara Bekkedahl to president-advertising sales, The Weather Group ... NetApp appoints Mike Berry, from McAfee, executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Ron Pasek, retiring ... The Switch taps Robert Szabo-Rowe, ex-Snell Advanced Media, as senior vice president-product management ...​ Telo names John Skousen, ex-10X People, vice president-carrier sales ... President Donald Trump appoints Patrick Gelsinger, VMware, to President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and nominates Nancy Beck, EPA, to Consumer Products Safety Commission as member and chair.
TechCongress 2020 Congressional Innovation Fellows (see this section, Dec. 19) assigned to congressional offices and areas of focus: Victoria Houed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., broadband adoption and policy, consumer online privacy and autonomous vehicles; Jennie Kam, Banking Committee minority staff under ranking member Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, cybersecurity, privacy and financial tech; Anna Lenhart, House Antitrust Subcommittee under Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., tech oversight and investigations; Walter Pope, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., future of work, gig economy and economic opportunity; Peter Terpeluk, Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., and tech and healthcare; and John Yaros, Senate Homeland Security Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations majority staff under Chairman Rob Portman, R-Ohio, investigations into cybersecurity, illicit finance and tech.
Sonos adds Deirdre Findlay, Conde Nast, and Joanna Coles, Disney, to board ... Neustar appoints Patrick Jabal, Google, to board ... Liberty Broadband elects Julie Frist, CapStar Financial, to board ... Tower Family Foundation elects Victor Drouin, Green Mountain Communications, president, succeeding Jim Tracy, Legacy Telecommunications, term expires; Jim Coleman, AT&T, becomes vice president; and Craig Lekutis, WirelessEstimator.com, secretary/treasurer.