Communications Personals
Entertainment Software Association hires Tara Ryan from Association for Accessible Medicines as vice president-state government affairs; Karen Gravois Elliott, ex-Adtran, as vice president-communications and public affairs; David Thomas, ex-Sandler Travis, is senior counsel-global policy and international trade; and Annie Chavez, ex-Sandia National Laboratories, becomes senior director-federal government affairs.
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Intel hires from McKinsey & Co. Saf Yeboah-Amankwah as senior vice president-chief strategy officer, effective Nov. 1 ... Comscore hires Chris Johnson from Ernst & Young as senior vice president-measurement standards compliance ... Western Digital separates product units for Flash and Hard Disk Drive technology, taps Robert Soderbery, ex-Cisco, as executive vice president-general manager, Flash business, and starts search for general manager, HDD.
'Threat Stack hires as vice presidents Peter Basile, ex-Tempo Software, for marketing and Kathleen DeShields, ex-People Strategies, for HR ... Flueid hires from Xome Ryan Jaeger as chief information officer ... Vcinity, which moves data across large geographies, names Seif Capital Managing Partner Mohsen Moazami, ex-Cisco, to the board as chairman ... Tilson adds Brightstar Executive Vice President Catherine Smith to its board.
T-Mobile starts External Diversity and Inclusion Council, which was agreed to amid the company buying Sprint (see 1910160058), under Chairman Marc Morial, National Urban League; with Kevin Allis, National Congress of American Indians; Sindy Benavides, League of United Latin American Citizens; Gilbert Casellas, former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman; Rachelle Chong , California Emerging Technology Fund board member; Maurita Coley Flippin, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council; Alphonso David, Human Rights Campaign; Carol Glazer, National Organization on Disability; Derrick Johnson, NAACP; Ken Lee, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates; Janet Murguía, UnidosUS; Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Jin Sung, National Diversity Coalition; and John Yang, Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
Newly elected to CTA executive board: Bridget Karlin, IBM, chair; Deena Ghazarian, TargetPath, and Carmichael Roberts, Soft Robotics, vice chairs; new members of Board of Industry Leaders: Melissa Andresko, Lutron; Henry Chiarelli, Chiarelli & Associates; Chris Duffey, Adobe; Sherika Ekpo, Google; Ron Freeman, Instrument Sales and Service; David Gold, Hisense USA; David Hagan, Boingo Wireless; Shawn Hansson, Logic Integration; Eric Hsia, TransLink Capital; Abby Kaplan, Shure; Sandra Martinez, Harman; Jake Sigal, Tome; Jayne Stancavage, Intel; and Sean Thurman, Walmart; Directed CEO Bob Struble named honorary member.