FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announces retirement of Wireless Competition Bureau's Joseph Sorresso; Commissioner Anna Gomez hires Harsha Mudaliar, ex-Senate Commerce Committee, as policy adviser … The FCC’s newly created Office of International Affairs (see 2311150062) announces leadership team, including for front office: Jared Carlson, Nese Guendelsberger and Thomas Sullivan as deputy chiefs; Michele Wu-Bailey, assistant chief-chief of staff; and Olga Madruga-Forti as special counsel; for Telecommunications and Analysis Division: Denise Coca, chief; Francis Gutierrez, deputy chief; and David Krech, assistant chief; and for Global Strategies and Negotiation Division: David Hu, acting chief; and Roxanne McElvane-Webber, deputy chief.
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NAB TV Board Chair Pat LaPlatney appoints Jeffery Liberman, Entravision Communications president-chief operating officer, to board … TechNet promotes Carl Holshouser to executive vice president-corporate secretary … NAB Leadership Foundation elects Circle City CEO DuJuan McCoy chair … Blue Mantis elevates Josh Dinneen to CEO, effective Jan. 1; he succeeds Ron Dupler, assuming role of chairman and remaining on board … Avaya hires Contentful’s Soren Abildgaard, also former Zendesk, as chief technology officer, effective immediately, and Genesys’ Marylou Maco, also former Cisco, Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as chief revenue and customer experience officer, effective Dec. 1.
New at PayPal: Isabel Cruz joins from Walmart as chief people officer, effective Nov. 27, succeeding Kausik Rajgopal, named executive vice president-strategy, corporate development and partnerships; Michelle Gill, ex-Intuit, named executive vice president-general manager of newly formed Small Business and Financial Services Group, effective immediately; and Diego Scotti joins from Verizon as executive vice president-general manager of newly formed Consumer Group and global marketing and communications organization, effective Dec. 4 ... SESAC Music Group hires Time’s Ali Hernandez, also former Miami Herald Media Co., as chief human resources officer.
Electronic Privacy Information Center adds to advisory board: John Abowd, Cornell University professor emeritus, economics; Emily Bender, director-Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington; Veena Dubal, University of California, Irvine, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative president-legislative and tech policy director; Sorelle Friedler, Haverford College computer science professor; Janet Vertesi, Princeton University associate professor-sociology; Kent Wada, chief privacy officer, University of California, Los Angeles; and Meredith Whittaker, Signa president.
Newly elected to ATSC board for three-year terms beginning in January: Paul Hearty, chief standards strategist, Samsung Research America; and Kerry Oslund, Scripps vice president-strategy and business development; IEEE appoints Guy Bouchard, chair, Montreal chapter, IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, to fill IEEE’s ATSC board seat previously occupied by Yian Wu, principal research scientist, Canada’s Communications Research Centre.