Communications Personals
President-elect Joe Biden announced new members of his White House staff: Cathy Russell, who's on advisory board of Biden-Harris Transition Team and was vice chair of their campaign, named director, Office of Presidential Personnel; and Louisa Terrell, who oversees legislative affairs for the transition team, as director, Office of Legislative Affairs ... President Donald Trump will appoint Basil Parker as administrator, OMB Office of Electronic Government.
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Liberty Global announces for newly combined Swiss operations, following completion of its purchase of Sunrise Communications: Sunrise CEO Andre Krause becomes chief of combined Sunrise UPC business; Severina Pascu, ex-Virgin Media, returns to Switzerland to be deputy CEO and chief operating officer ... Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions hires Rance Poehler, ex-Panasonic Systems Communications, as president-CEO, replacing Scott Maccabe, who's retiring from the post but remains in that job at Toshiba America Business Solutions ... Ryan tax services and software provider taps Sam Guevara as U.S. Tax Technology Practice leader.
Emerald Holding hires Herve Sedky from Reed Exhibitions Americas as president-CEO; interim CEO Brian Field continues as chief operating officer; Jason McGraw joins from Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association as vice president in charge of cross-marketing CEDIA Expo and the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show; and Amy Hornby named to newly created position of director-key accounts.
Pearson promotes Ishantha Lokuge to chief global product officer and co-president-direct-to-consumer and hires Lynne Frank from Warner Bros. Pictures as chief marketing officer and co-DTC president ... Crown Media promotes Allison Bennett to vice president-corporate communications and publicity ... Compass elects LinkedIn Chief Financial Officer Steve Sordello to its board.