Communications Personals
Disney hires former BP executive Geoff Morrell, also ex-ABC News, as senior executive vice president-chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to CEO Bob Chapek in newly created role and effective Jan. 24, with oversight of corporate communications, global public policy, government relations, corporate social responsibility, and environmental, social and governance teams ... Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter appoints Kimberley Isbell as acting general counsel-associate register of copyrights at the Copyright Office, which she joined in 2015 ... Aimee Meacham leaves NTIA, where she was acting deputy associate administrator-international affairs and external affairs chief, BroadbandUSA ...Vivint Smart Home promotes interim General Counsel Garner Meads to chief legal officer and secretary.
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Newly promoted at Samsung Electronics: CES 2022 keynoter Jong-Hee Han becomes vice chairman-CEO of newly merged consumer tech and mobile electronics operations, and continues in his role as head of Visual Display business; Kyehyun Kyung named CEO in charge of Device Solutions (DS) division; Yongin Park advances to president-head of System LSI business; Hark Kyu Park ascends to president-chief financial officer; Kinam Kim moves up to chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology; KS Choi becomes president-head of North America office for combined consumer tech and mobile electronics business; and Inyup Kang promoted to president-head of North America office, DS division.
Trump Media & Technology picks Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as CEO; he leaves the House for the job in January ... "Amnon Shashua and the Mobileye executive team will remain at Mobileye," with Shashua still CEO, as Intel plans a mid-2022 initial public offering of that business (see 2112070001) ... Texas Instruments adds Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer Haviv Ilan to its board ... Nomination sent to the Senate for Dimitri Kusnezov, from Department of Energy, to be Department of Homeland Security undersecretary-science and technology; Reginald Brothers had resigned.