Communications Personals
Dish Network hires Dave Mayo, from T-Mobile, as executive vice president-network deployment, responsible for wireless buildout strategy; promotes Jeff Blum to executive vice president-external and legislative affairs; gives Chief Operating Officer John Swieringa added responsibilities as group president-retail wireless; and advances Michael Schwimmer to group president-Sling TV ... LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition head Mike Gravino retires ... Internet Association hires Dylan Hoffman, ex-aide to Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, as director-government affairs, California.
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David VanderWaal to retire as LG Electronics USA senior vice president-marketing, effective July 31; Peggy Ang promoted to LG USA head-marketing; Chris Hong, ex-HSAd, an LG subsidiary, joins LG North America as senior vice president-chief digital officer ... National Religious Broadcasters named Daniel Darling, ex-Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, senior vice president-communications, which took effect May 1.
AT&T's WarnerMedia taps media, entertainment and technology executive Richard Tom for chief technology officer, succeeding Jeremy Legg, joining AT&T to lead Technology Services as executive vice president-CTO ... CCG Catalyst names Mac Macaluso, ex-Fiserv, principal, leading technology strategy practice ... Jeff Krolik, president of Sinclair regional sports networks, retiring effective Aug. 30, after overseeing RSNs sale from Disney last year ... PagerDuty adds Manjula Talreja, ex-Salesforce, as first chief customer officer.
Lobbyist registrations: SAS Institute, BGR Government Affairs, effective May 15 ... ECurrency, Davidoff Hutcher on "adoption of a US Central Bank Digital Currency,” effective May 14 ... Markup, on its own behalf on “modernization of how the House and Senate processes legislation and conducts remote proceedings including voting,” effective May 14 ... Digital health company Livongo, on its own behalf on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (Cares) Act, “improved access to remote monitoring and digital health tools” and data privacy, effective May 12 ... SkyWater Technology Foundry, Innovative Federal Strategies, effective May 1.
​Healthcare IT firm Persivia, Clark Hill, effective April 20 ... National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Subject Matter on “Rural Utilities Service and rural development” and “rural broadband deployment,” effective April 15 ... Amazon, East End Group, effective April 15 ... DXC Technology, Monument Advocacy on “economic recovery from COVID-19” and “science and technology policy,” effective April 15 ... CACI, Cornerstone Government Affairs, effective April 13 ... SK hynix America, Invariant, effective April 11 ... Instacart, Subject Matter on technology, future COVID-19 stimulus legislation, effective April 8 ... Flir, Potomac Policy Advisors, effective April 6.
Telehealth platform Rhinogram, Polsinelli, effective April 6 ... Advanced Micro Devices, Forbes-Tate, effective April 2 ... Mobile healthcare tech company Advanced Mobile Solutions, Dutko Worldwide, effective April 1 ... Arm, on its own behalf, effective April 1 ... Broadcom, Salt Point Strategies, effective April 1 ... Broadnet, Salt Point Strategies on Telephone Consumer Protection Act, effective April 1 ... Care.com, on its own behalf, effective April 1 ... Fox Corp., Madison Group on retransmission consent, online privacy, spectrum, media ownership, First Amendment, online sports betting, children’s educational TV and on ads, effective April 1 ... Gogo, Hogan Lovells, effective April 1 ... HP, Miller Strategies, effective April 1 ... HP Enterprise, Salt Point Strategies on “spectrum policy and broadband infrastructure,” effective April 1 ... Intel, The Madison Group on IP, effective April 1 ... Oath, H&M Strategies on online privacy, platform liability, online speech and digital advertising, effective April 1.
SAP National Security Services, Hettinger Strategy Group, effective April 1 ... Square, on its own behalf, effective April 1 ... Zebra Technologies, Van Scoyoc Associates, effective April 1 ... Fintech company Blucora, The Duberstein Group on antitrust and consumer protection, effective March 28 ... IAC, Squire Patton, effective March 25 ... DJI, Cassidy & Associates, effective March 1 ... Flir, Broadwater International, effective March 1 ... Yodlee, Sternhell Group, effective March 1 ... Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Tim Yehl on autonomous vehicle legislation, effective Feb. 3 ... Financial Data and Technology Association of North America, Signal Group Consulting, effective Jan. 29 ... Newwave, M.J. Simon & Co., was effective Oct. 16.