Communications Personals
Connected Nation promotes Brent Legg to executive vice president-government affairs ... Steptoe & Johnson hires from Mayer Brown privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Charles-Albert Helleputte as partner in Brussels, along with new associate Diletta De Cicco, who works on same issues; adds in New York from Dechert Michael Weiner as partner, Antitrust and Competition practice, and he has worked on tech and telecom among other issues.
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Dorsey & Whitney adds corporate partner and U.S. national security law-technology expert Lawrence Ward as head, Seattle office, replacing in that role Jennifer Spaith, who remains intellectual property partner ... Electronic Frontier Foundation hires cybersecurity and encryption expert Jon Callas from American Civil Liberties Union as technology projects director.
ON Semiconductor CEO Keith Jackson to retire immediately after May annual meeting; he won't seek reelection to the board, which will hire an executive search firm to help find a successor ... Okta adds Alvina Antar, ex-Zuora, as senior vice president-chief information officer ... Intelligent Waves adds Brian Brennan, ex-Pyramid Systems, as senior vice president-client operations ... Hearst Television’s Timothy Morrissey, president-general manager of WJCL Savannah, is retiring this fall.
President Donald Trump to nominate White House Deputy Chief of Staff-Policy Coordination Christopher Liddell as secretary general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; he's ex-chief financial officer at General Motors and Microsoft.