Communications Personals
Public Knowledge adds Greg Guice, ex-McGuireWoods, as director-government affairs and promotes Meredith Rose to senior policy counsel ... Wi-Fi Alliance promotes Alex Roytblat to vice president-worldwide regulatory affairs ... Taxpayers Protection Alliance hires Patrick Hedger from Competitive Enterprise Institute as vice president-policy ... White & Case expands Global Intellectual Property Practice, hiring high-tech patent litigation expert Jonathan Lamberson from Fish & Richardson as partner.
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SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer retires Dec. 31, moves to vice chairman; successor is Jennifer Witz, promoted and joins the board; Sean Sullivan hired from AMC Networks as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 26, replaces David Frear, resigns effective immediately; George Bodenheimer resigns from the board ... Twilio hires Lybra Clemons, ex-PayPal, as its first chief diversity, inclusion and belonging officer ... Eutelsat's Yohann Leroy resigns as deputy CEO, remains chief technical officer.
Nexstar appoints Tina Marie Castano from WLNE-TV New Bedford, Massachusetts, as vice president-general manager, broadcast and digital operations in New York's Binghamton and nearby Elmira/Corning ... In Searchlight Capital investing up to $425 million in Consolidated Communications (see 2009140055), the telco's board appoints Searchlight nominee David Fuller a director ... Eventbrite adds Naomi Wheeless from Square to board.
Patent and Trademark Office Performance Review Board members, all from PTO are: Laura Peter, PRB chair, and deputy undersecretary of commerce-intellectual property and deputy director, PTO; Frederick Steckler, vice chair, PTO chief administrative officer; Drew Hirshfeld, commissioner-patents; David Gooder, commissioner-trademarks; Jay Hoffman, chief financial officer; Henry Holcombe, chief information officer; Nicholas Matich, acting general counsel; and Shira Perlmutter, chief policy officer and director-international affairs; PTO alternates Meryl Hershkowitz, deputy commissioner-trademark operations; and Andrew Faile, deputy commissioner-patents.