FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez appoints Deena Shetler, deputy chief of staff for administration-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s office, as acting chief of staff and legal adviser for media and international; Edyael Casaperalta, chief of staff-Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireless, Public Safety and Consumer Protection; Hayley Steffen, legal adviser to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting legal adviser for Wireline and Space; and Anna Holland, staff assistant to bureau chief-Wireline Bureau, as acting executive assistant … Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo names Sean McDevitt, consulting firm Arthur D. Little partner, FirstNet Authority board member (see 2309260042) ... Department of State announces Patricia Gruber, ex-Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global, as science and technology adviser to the secretary of state, heading the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser.
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FCC acting Chair Mignon Clyburn and former House Commerce Chair Fred Upton, R-Mich., are senior advisers of newly launched Streaming Innovation Alliance (see 2309260050) ... Syniverse names Sandra Rose, ex-Santander Consumer USA, chief human resources officer ... Faraday Future, electric mobility ecosystem company, names Healthpeak Properties’ Scott Graziano, also ex-Western Digital, global general counsel ... New hires at Grindr, social network for the LGBTQ community: Zac Katz, former FCC chief of staff and chief counsel under President Barack Obama, as general counsel and head-global affairs; Tristan Pineiro, ex-King, also former Netflix, as vice president-brand and communications; and Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, ex-Varian, as director-AI and machine learning.
Spectra7 Microsystems, supplier of analog semiconductor products for broadband connectivity markets, names Kumu Networks’ Steffen Hahn senior vice president-engineering ... Quantum Computing adds New York University’s Javad Shabani to its technical advisory board, expanding it to four members ... Voyager Space adds former Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Lewis, Purdue Applied Research Institute, to its advisory board.