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Airbnb taps ex-Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive "and his partners at LoveFrom" for "a multi-year relationship to design the next generation of Airbnb products and services" ... Merkle promotions include Michael Komasinski to president, Merkle Americas and leader of "dentsu CXM LoB in the Americas," effective Jan. 1 ... Crown Castle, "in previously announced Board transition plan," says directors appoint to join their ranks Tammy Jones, Basis Investment Group, and Matthew Thornton, who retired as a FedEx executive in November.
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National Association of Counties President Gary Moore announces a new broadband task force that includes co-Chair J.D. Clark, county judge in Wise County, Texas; and co-Chair Craig Rice, Montgomery County, Maryland, Council member; with among the members Nils Andreassen, Alaska Municipal League​; see a list of all members here ... SERC Reliability board adds directors, effective Jan. 1, NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield, Lonni Dieck, ex-American Electric Power treasurer, and Delta Air Lines Global Chief Information Security Officer Deborah Wheeler.
At Next Generation Mobile Networks, Emmanuel Lugagne Delpon, Orange executive, succeeded as chairman by Arash Ashouriha, Deutsche Telekom; and among others on NGMN board for 2020-22 are Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile US, and Michael Irizarry, UScellular ... Netgear puts on the board Sarah Butterfass, incoming chief product officer at FanDuel ... Zillow appoints Claire Cormier Thielke, Hines Asia Pacific managing director, to its board.