Communications Personals
RapidDeploy adds James Mitchell, ex-Verizon, as director-government strategy and relations ... Ribbon Communications taps Sam Bucci, ex-Nokia, for executive vice president-general manager, packet optical networks, new position after it bought ECI Telecom earlier this year ... Aviatrix taps Jason Langone, ex-Nutanix, for vice president-federal markets.
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Tegna advances Richard Dyer to senior vice president, overseeing WLTX Columbia, South Carolina, and WFMY-TV Greensboro, North Carolina, and he's still president-general manager, WUSA Washington; Kate Morris from KTVB Boise becomes president-general manager, KPNX Mesa, Arizona ... Retiring from Kulicke & Soffa Industries: Chairman Garrett Pierce, having reached mandatory retirement age; director Peter Kong advances to chairman, effective Oct. 1 ... AMC Networks Executive Chairman Charles Dolan stepping down, becomes chairman emeritus; James Dolan elected nonexecutive chairman.
Patent and Trademark Office starts National Council for Expanding American Innovation, with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross chairman, NCEAI, and vice chair is Andrei Iancu, director, PTO; and members including Jovita Carranza, administrator, Small Business Administration; and Sethuraman Panchanathan, director, National Science Foundation; university presidents Wayne Frederick, Howard University; Timothy Sands, Virginia Polytechnic; Wendy Wintersteen, Iowa State; and Michael Young, Texas A&M; industry executives including Mary Barra, General Motors; Safra Catz, Oracle; Scott Frank, AT&T Intellectual Property; Kathryn Guarini, IBM Research; and Steven Mollenkopf, Qualcomm; from IP associations Barbara Fiacco, American Intellectual Property Law Association; Stephen Susalka, Association of University Technology Managers; and Warren Tuttle, United Inventors Association.