Communications Personals
Rich Ashooh, who resigned last week as Commerce Department assistant secretary-export administration, hired by Lam Research as global head-government affairs ... TechNet promotes Peter Chandler to vice president-federal policy and government relations ... Digital Realty adds Melody Neil, who ran her own government relations practice, as senior director-business operations and government affairs ... TaxCloud taps Bruce Johnson, the co-founder of Streamlined Sales Tax Implementing States, as vice president-government affairs, legal.
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New York Times Co. advances Meredith Kopit Levien to succeed Mark Thompson as president-CEO, effective Sept. 8 and to join the board, from which Thompson steps down ... NCI Information Systems promotes Chuck Hicks to chief operating officer; he remains chief financial officer ... Piper Sandler hires technology senior research analysts Tom Champion, ex-Cowen, and Arvind Ramnani, ex-KeyBanc Capital Markets, and technology team promotes Yung Kim to senior research analyst covering entertainment technology.
Druva cloud data protection and management firm taps Andrew Daniels, ex-Qubole, as chief information officer and chief information security officer ... Peerless Network promotes Margaret McNerney to national vice president-U.S. carrier sales ... President Donald Trump's nominations sent to the Senate for John Gibbs as director, Office of Personnel Management for four-year term (see this section, July 22), Dale Cabaniss resigned, and for Daniel Huff as assistant commerce secretary, Michael Platt resigned.
Barnes & Noble Education appoints digital, education, turnaround and merger expert Lowell Robinson to its board as it enters standstill agreement with Outerbridge Capital Management, owner of about a 14% stake; Outerbridge to nominate Zachary Levenick as director for election at annual meeting.