President-elect Joe Biden announces he's naming Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress, who "would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American to lead the OMB," and Kate Bedingfield, ex-MPA, White House communications director, a job she did for the Biden-Kamala Harris campaign ... Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 hires So Vang from NAB as vice president-emerging technologies ... BTIG adds Chris Dorn as managing director, Healthcare Investment Banking, where he will focus on healthcare IT and digital health companies.
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RingCentral hires Nat Natarajan from Ancestry as executive vice president-products and engineering, succeeding Executive Vice President-Chief Innovation Officer Kira Makagon, who will lead the company's new strategic initiative RingCentral Ventures, which starts in 2021 ... GSMA board elects Verizon Executive Vice President-Chief Strategy Officer Rima Qureshi deputy chair, from January 2021 through December 2022 ... Digital Global Systems adds Technovation Chairman Paul Kaminski to the board.
Wireless ISP Association board taps Mark Radabaugh, Amplex Internet, as WISPA chairman for one-year term, replacing Nathan Stooke, Wisper Internet, who remains a board member; Chuck Hogg, All Points Broadband, named vice chairman; Todd Harpest, MetaLink Technologies, to treasurer; and Jeff Kohler, Rise Broadband, as secretary.
ATSC members newly elect to board Mark Aitken of Sinclair for a three-year term starting in January; Craig Todd, retiring from Dolby, and ex-ATSC Chairman and retired Zenith executive Wayne Luplow, who represented IEEE on the board, are completing their terms at year-end, when NAB's Lynn Claudy's term as chairman ends, and he remains a director; succeeding Luplow as IEEE rep is Yiyan Wu from Communications Research Centre.
Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law expands board of trustees, electing new members: Sharon Barner with Cummins; Shruti Chopra, Paul Weiss law firm; Barbara Fiacco, Foley Hoag; Natalie Alfaro Gonzales, Baker Botts; Krish Gupta, Dell; Jens Jenkins, Workman Nydegger; Tiffany Johnson, Estee Lauder; Annette Kwok, Cronos; Dwayne Mason, Greenberg Traurig; Ann Mueting, Mueting Raasch; Kevin Noonan, McDonnell Boehnen; Raymond Parker, BioNTech US; Saint St. Julian, Prairie View A&M University; Pervin Rusi Taleyarkhan, Whirlpool; Tearra Vaughn, Reimage Beauty; and Ha Kung Wong, Venable.
Lobbyist registrations: Power & Communications Contractors Association, Jaime Steve on Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act “funding deadline,” effective Nov. 16 … Cryptocurrency equipment maker ShieldFive, Government Relations Group, effective Nov. 11 … Data sharing and tracking software provider MTX Group, Mehlman Castagnetti, effective Oct. 19 … National Music Publishers’ Association, Barloon (see personals section, Nov. 18) on Copyright Act Sections 114 and 115, digital copyright, music licensing, “modernization efforts” and performance rights, effective Oct. 13 … Microsoft, Lot Sixteen, effective Oct. 5 … T-Mobile, The Joseph Group on broadband deployment, spectrum policy, incentive auctions, public safety and law enforcement, effective Oct. 5 … SAS Institute, Kyle House Group, effective Oct. 3 … DoorDash, The Madison Group, effective Oct. 1 … IT firm Brytech, DuncanCounts, effective Feb. 15.