President Joe Biden nominates Harry Coker, senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, as national cyber director (see 2307250067) … Nexstar names Michael Biard, ex-Fox, president-chief operating officer, effective Aug. 21, replacing Thomas Carter, becoming senior adviser through year-end ... Loch Technologies, wireless attack surface threat monitoring company, taps AT&T’s Matthew Wickline as vice president-sales ... Avant Technologies appoints Danny Rittman, ex-GBT Technologies, chief information security officer.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's new chief counsel is Priscilla Delgado-Argeris (see 2307200051).
DLA Piper names Ann Ishee, ex-T-Mobile, a managing director-telecom group … Vodafone appoints Luka Mucic, former SAP chief financial officer, as CFO-executive director, effective Sept. 1 … Charter Communications promotes Danny Bowman to executive vice president-product ... Executive recruitment firm Morgan Samuels hires Jesse Annunziata, ex-Artico Search, as senior client partner and practice security leader-cybersecurity.
FCC announces bureau leadership teams, with each staffer coming from another agency position unless otherwise indicated: for the Wireless Bureau, Barbara Esbin, Kari Hicks and Susan Mort, deputy bureau chiefs; Jessica Greffenius and Jessica Quinley, assistant bureau chiefs; Arpan Sura, senior counsel to the chief; Janet Young, chief engineer; and Cameron Duncan and John Lockwood, legal and policy advisers.
FCC personnel changes: Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Chief Legal Adviser Priscilla Delgado-Argeris moves to chief counselor, Competition Policy Division’s Ramesh Nagarajan becomes Rosenworcel’s chief legal adviser, and Wireline Bureau’s Rashann Duvall becomes legal adviser; Wireline Bureau’s Lauren Geary becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr, replacing Danielle Thurmann, resigned; and John Stein from Officer of the Chief Information Officer and John Kuzma from the Chicago field office are both retiring … T-Mobile names DLA Piper’s Smitty Smith to replace Kathleen Ham as senior president-government affairs, when Ham retires Oct. 2 (see 2307200052) … Georgia Public Service Commission elects Commissioner Jason Shaw chairman for a two-year term, succeeding Tricia Pridemore, who remains commissioner.
Disney promotes Alexia Quadrani to executive vice president-investor relations ... Nexstar promotes Larry Cottrill to vice president-general manager, WCMH-TV Columbus, succeeding Ken Freedman, retiring, and hires Mitzi Coleman, from KTVL Medford, Oregon, as vice president-general manager, WTRF-TV Wheeling, West Virginia, succeeding Roger Lyons, retiring … CBS News and Stations names Kim Voet, ex-WDIV-TV Detroit, president-general manager of its businesses in Miami, including WFOR-TV and WBFS-TV, effective Aug. 14.
Wiley hires former FCC Deputy Bureau Chief Diane Holland as partner-telecom, media and tech … Nexstar signs multiyear contract extensions with President-Networks Sean Compton and President-Distribution and Strategy Dana Zimmer; Nexstar's 8-K filing Monday said Compton’s contract runs through September 2027, Zimmer’s through September 2026 ... Colohouse collocation, cloud, bare metal and managed services provider announces Aptum Technologies’ Ross Woodham as chief legal officer.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) reappoints Renee Larrick to a second, six-year term on the Public Service Commission … Tubi, Fox’s free ad-supported streaming service, hires Vimeo’s Anjali Sud as CEO, effective Sept. 1, succeeding Farhad Massoudi, Tubi's founder and CEO, who announced his departure earlier in the year.
Casa Systems names PacketFabric’s Michael Glickman, also ex-Cisco, president-CEO effective Aug. 1, succeeding interim CEO Ed Durkin, who remains chief financial officer …Fiber cable manufacturer AFL names Corning’s Marc Bolick, also ex-CommScope, president-product solutions ... Binance, blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, promotes Eleanor Hughes to general counsel ... Management consulting firm Kearney adds Bob Swan, an Andreessen Horowitz operating partner and former Intel CEO, and Lazard Managing Director Isabelle Xoual as its first external board members.
Dentons names Stephanie Abrutyn, ex-Grid and ex- HBO/WarnerMedia, as counsel in media and entertainment group and litigation group … Morris Manning adds Ballard Spahr’s Ricardo Jackman as partner in its D.C. office, where he will chair the firm’s new sports and entertainment practice ... Disney board extends contract of CEO Bob Iger for two years, through year-end 2026 ... Sinclair names Nickolas James, ex-HBO Max, vice president-social media, newly created position ... Fortress Solutions, supplier of infrastructure management and support services for telecommunications carriers, adds Scott Mair, recently retired president-AT&T Networks Engineering and Operations, to its board ... UL Solutions promotes Alberto Uggetti to executive vice president-chief commercial officer; he was interim CCO ... Content data platform Iris.TV promotes Rohan Castelino to chief marketing officer, and names Onclusive’s Jim Heinzen, also former Nielsen, vice president-finance and operations.