Communications Personals
FCC Wireless Bureau promotes Charles Mathias from associate chief to deputy chief ... Fiber Broadband Association board taps Gary Bolton, ex-Adtran, as president-CEO, succeeding Lisa Youngers, who's leaving "for a new industry opportunity" ... Internet Association hires Christina Martin, ex-Corn Refiners Association, as senior vice president-communications and public affairs ... Association for Digital Asset Markets hires Michelle Bond from Ripple as CEO, succeeding Jeffrey Blockinger.
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In Intel buying SigOpt, the artificial intelligence software optimization platform provider's CEO and co-founder Scott Clark and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Patrick Hayes join Intel's Machine Learning Performance team, as do other staff in the deal expected to close this quarter ... Western Digital adds Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, ex-Dell EMC, as executive vice president-general manager, Hard Disk Drive business, which it had planned to name a leader for as it started Flash and HDD technology units (see this section, Sept. 24).
Ex-Netflix executive Jeeun Kim joins CBS Studios' Allison Brightman as executive vice president and co-head, business affairs for CBS, announces Bryon Rubin, who earlier Wednesday became chief operating officer and chief financial officer, CBS Entertainment Group (see this section, Oct. 29); Brightman's move is a promotion to lead the newly combined department, spokesperson tells us ... AMC Networks announces Marc Juris, We tv president, leaving effective at year's end.
National Association of State Chief Information Officers leadership for new program year adds Ohio CIO Ervan Rodgers and Vermont's John Quinn to Executive Committee as new directors ... Shutterfly adds to the board Julia Brown, ex-Carnival Corp., and Airbnb's Namrata Patel ... On Semiconductor adds Susan Carter to its board; she's also a director of Air Products and Chemicals.