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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai taps Glenn Woroch, University of California, Berkeley adjunct professor emeritus, as chief economist, a job Jeffrey Prince had been doing ... Telecommunications Industry Association appoints Melissa Newman, ex-Transit Wireless, vice president-government affairs.

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As Jim Farley succeeded Jim Hackett Thursday as Ford president-CEO, other changes include John Lawler -- who was CEO, Ford Autonomous Vehicles and vice president-mobility partnerships -- replacing as chief financial officer Tim Stone, who's becoming chief operating officer-CFO at ASAPP artificial intelligence software company; Ford Chief Information Officer Jeff Lemmer retiring, effective Jan. 1 ... WOW taps Andrew Posen, ex-Telaria, for vice president-head, investor relations.

Slack Technologies names from Reddit Sean Catlett as chief security officer ... With Hitachi having bought Hitachi ID in early 2020, Chief Revenue Officer Nick Brown now joins Hitachi ID, and Vice President-Engineering Ian Reay is promoted ... Keysight Technologies promotes Satish Dhanasekaran to chief operating officer; Chief Technology Officer Jay Alexander decides to retire, effective late next year ... Semtech increases size of board, appointing Paula LuPriore, WujiTech, and Martin Burvill, who had been a Verizon executive.