Communications Personals
International Center for Law & Economics hires Ian Adams, ex-TechFreedom, for executive director, and Sam Bowman, ex-Fingleton Associates, is director-competition policy ... Next Century Cities appoints Brittany-Rae Gregory, ex-office of Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., communications director; and Ryan Johnston, ex-Computer and Communications Industry Association, policy counsel; and moves Lukas Pietrzak to policy associate ... DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Essye Miller retiring effective June 30, John Sherman advancing to position ... NATE using Gemma Frock, GKF Consulting Services, to implement telecom industry workforce plan.
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SAP co-CEO Christian Klein becomes CEO with co-CEO Jennifer Morgan’s departure ... PacketFabric taps Dave Ward, from Cisco, as CEO ... Gray Television promotes to senior vice presidents: Karen Youger, sales operations; Jay Cowart, chief accounting officer; Sabra Cowart, financial reporting; Vance Luke, controller; Rob Folliard, government relations and distribution; Jan Goldstein, human resources; and Ellenann Yelverton, deputy general counsel; to vice presidents: Ryan Burlison, sales training and development; Glen Hale, digital content and audience development; Brandon Omohundro, digital operations; Erin Overstreet, digital sales; and Garrett Pope, traffic and sales systems.
Also, as Gray vice presidents: John Alexander, assistant general counsel; Robin Collins, tax; Brittany Cook, internal reporting; Andre Holmes, financial analysis; James Jefferies, IT operations; Brian Morris, chief information security officer; Angela Moyle, shared services; and Mike Zima, external reporting; assistant vice presidents: Maurice Gibson, employee relations; Keith Hildibrand, benefits; Doris Jones, shared services; and assistant secretaries/general counsels: Claire Ferguson, Will Joslin and Lindzy McQueen.
Adobe advances Jonathan Vaas as vice president-investor relations, succeeding Mike Saviage, retiring, remaining in advisory role ... Astroscale announces Dave Fischer, ex-RUAG Space USA, as vice president-business development and advanced systems and David Hebert, ex-The Aerospace Corp., as director-communications ... Roger Sole, ex-Sprint, joins WeWork as chief marketing officer ... Twitch taps Tracy Chan, from Spotify, as head-product and engineering for music ... President Donald Trump nominating Assistant Secretary of Transportation-Aviation and International Affairs Joel Szabat as undersecretary of transportation-policy, and Avi Loeb, Harvard University, and Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.