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NTIA announces Herb Tyson, ex-State Department, as director-intergovernmental affairs, and Evan Feinman, chief broadband adviser to then-Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., as deputy associate administrator-broadband equity, access and deployment … Competitive Carriers Association hires Angela Simpson, ex-ZTE USA, as general counsel/senior vice president-legal and regulatory affairs … NCTA appoints Kyle Dixon, ex-WarnerMedia, as vice president/deputy general counsel-program network policy; Jeff Freeland, former Trump administration liaison to House members, as vice president-government relations; and Becky Tangren, from CableLabs, as vice president/associate general counsel-wireless and spectrum policy; association also promotes Lee Friedman to deputy chief-federal legislative affairs.
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LinkedIn hires Lei Yang, ex-Twitter, as vice president-engineering to lead “Flagship experience" team, and Donald Thompson, ex-Splunk, as distinguished engineer, working on knowledge graphs at LinkedIn and Microsoft … Twitter appoints Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board for a term expiring at the 2024 annual meeting, with the agreement that he won’t own more than 14.9% of Twitter common stock ... MIPI Alliance appoints Intel’s Sanjiv Desai as chair to succeed Joel Huloux of STMicroelectronics, who announced his retirement, and names Qualcomm’s Rick Wietfeldt to succeed Desai as vice chair; Huloux remains on board until a new ST representative is appointed; alliance also promotes Peter Lefkin to executive director.