Communications Personals
TechFreedom taps Asheesh Agarwal, ex-FTC, for deputy general counsel-competition counsel ... Barnes & Thornburg adds John Moye as partner, Litigation Department; his practice includes technology and software litigation and telecom law ... LegalZoom hires from The Honest Co. Nicole Miller as general counsel ... Crossroads Strategies hires ex-Sens. John Breaux, D-La., and Trent Lott, R-Miss., as partners; they worked at Squire Patton on issues including telecom.
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Additional Xperi changes (see this section, June 9 and 10) following combination with TiVo include naming Chief Technology Officer-Product Petronel Bigioi; Chief Human Resources Officer Kris Graves; General Manager-TiVo Michael Hawkey; Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer John Pernin; Chief Products and Services Officer Geir Skaaden; CEO-Perceive startup and Adviser-Office of the CTO, Xperi Steve Teig; President-Chief Operating Officer, Perceive Murali Dharan; and new board includes Chairman David Habiger, JD Power; and members Darcy Antonellis, Amdocs Media and Vubiquity; Laura Durr, Polycom until its takeover by Plantronics in July 2018 and from TiVo’s board; Dan Moloney, Siris Capital; Raghavendra Rau, ex-interim CEO, TiVo; and Christopher Seams, ex-Deca Technologies and on Xperi’s board.
Axis Insurance hires Eric Seyfried, ex-Aon, as head-cyber U.S. open market ... California Public Utilities Commission says Senate confirms past appointment of Marybel Batjer as commissioner; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) previously named her CPUC president ... National Music Publishers’ Association puts Marti Cuevas, Mayimba Music, on its board.
Lobbyist registrations: SES Americom, Salt Point Strategies on C-band spectrum auction, effective June 1 ... Univision, Play-Book Policy on “legislative and regulatory issues concerning the FCC, telecommunications, media ownership” and non-English communications, effective May 11 ... Clark Street Associates on behalf of Ansys, K&L Gates on software tech, effective May 1 ... Clark Street Associates on behalf of Western Digital, K&L Gates on “computer hardware technology,” effective May 1 ... RE2 Robotics, Brody Group on the FY 2020/2021 National Defense Authorization Act bills and FY 2021 appropriations, effective May 1 ... Cloud security company Switch, Cassidy & Associates including on data center security, effective May 1 ... Robotics company Turing Video, The Livingston Group, effective April 29 ... Ligado, Squire Patton including on 5G, effective April 27 ... Telecom Infra Project, Access Partnership on cybersecurity, telecom and other matters, effective March 17.