FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr names Lauren Garry, from Wireline Bureau, legal adviser, succeeding Danielle Thumann, who becomes Crown Castle senior attorney-government relations ... Sullivan & Cromwell taps Andrei Iancu, former director-Patent and Trademark Office, as partner-intellectual property and technology ... Washington Technology Industry Association names ScaleWith’s Terrance Stevenson director-SeaCiti, the Seattle-area tech community engagement nonprofit that WTIA acquired in May 2022.
Communications Workers of America elect Claude Cummings, CWA vice president District 6 and ex-AT&T, as president, and Ameenah Salaam, assistant-CWA international president, as secretary-treasurer … Dish names Eben Albertyn, ex-VodafoneZiggo, executive vice president-chief technology officer, joining in September to replace Dave Mayo and Marc Rouanne (see 2307110056); Mayo, executive vice president-network development, retires, transitioning to strategic advisor, and Rouanne, executive vice president-chief network officer, becomes executive vice president-global partnerships; Dish also promotes Satish Sharma to executive vice president-network deployment.
Lerman Senter says Steve Berman, ex-Lawler Metzger, joined the firm as counsel focusing on satellite, wireless and telecommunications and Shannon Sylvester, ex-Treasury Department and FTC, as associate, with a focus including privacy, cybersecurity and AI ... NAB says Chris Brown, managing director-global connections and events, transitions out of role following annual 2024 NAB Show.
Chunghwa Telecom promotes Chau-Young Lin to president-Information Technology Group, succeeding Shui-Yi Kuo ... Oppo promotes Chi Zhou to president-Middle East and Africa region ... Cybersecurity company Blackpoint Cyber names Optiv’s MacKenzie Brown, also ex-Microsoft, vice president-security.
Atlas Space Operations, a ground software as a service provider, names John Williams, ex-Viasat, CEO … Cloud security company Kivera names Shift5's Joe Lea CEO ... Aqua Security appoints Gilad Elyashar, ex-Microsoft, its first chief product officer … Boldyn Networks, the former BAI Communications, adds group COO title to Brendan O’Reilly’s role as group CTO … Booz Allen names former NASA senior executive Tom Whitmeyer an executive adviser in support of its space business ... Digital commerce company Flywheel Digital taps Publicis Groupe’s Allysun Lundy as senior vice president-media ... Hyland, content services provider, names former Nteraction board member Brian Schlosser, also former 78 Partners, vice president-partners.
Perkins Coie’s Belinda Nixon joins Internet2 as vice president-general counsel and corporate secretary … Worldly, impact intelligence platform, names Scott Raskin, ex-Quotient Technology, CEO; founding CEO Jason Kibbey will work with Raskin over the summer before becoming founder-president ... Atlas Space Operations names Viasat’s John Williams CEO ... Fleet Space names Matteo Genna, ex-World View Enterprises, chief technology officer ... Dstny, cloud-based business communications provider, names Telenet’s Christophe Costers chief operating officer.
FreeMove Alliance, mobile telecommunications consortium of Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TIM Group and Telia, names Selma Avdagic Tisljar, ex-Deutsche Telekom, general manager ... Information management company Oasis Group names Iron Mountain’s Sarah Vidgen chief people officer ... Exostellar, cloud resource optimization company, hires Microsoft’s Tony Shakib as co-CEO, to work with current CEO Hakim Weatherspoon for a transition period until assuming CEO role Jan. 1 ... Fiber tech company Luna Innovations hires NKT Photonics Technology’s Thomas Oldemeyer as senior vice president-managing director, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
APCO promotes Chief Technology Officer Melvin Maier to executive director, as Derek Poarch relinquishes that title (see 2306300039) but remains CEO for a several-month transition; upon Poarch’s departure, Maier will become CEO-executive director … Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hires Dave Effross, from AFL-CIO’s Labor Energy Partnership, as director-Center for Clean Energy Innovation, succeeding Ed Rightor, becoming consultant … Rivian Automotive taps Meta’s Sarah O’Brien, also ex-Tesla, as chief communications officer.
American Public Power Association’s board names Northwest Public Power Association Executive Director Scott Corwin president-CEO, effective Aug. 16 ... Alphabet health tech subsidiary Verily taps McKesson’s Laura O’Donnell as general counsel ... Gannett names Axiom’s Chris Cho president-digital marketing solutions, effective July 10 ... Accenture promotes Rajendra Prasad to chief information and asset engineering officer, newly created role, effective July 1, succeeding Gloria Samuels, retiring Aug. 14, in the role of global lead for Accenture's Workday Business Group ... Rackspace Technology cloud company appoints Chief Technology Officer Srini Koushik global head of new spin-off Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace … Intuit promotes Mark Notarainni to general manager-Consumer Group, effective Aug. 1, replacing Varun Krishna, leaving company.
Newly named country commissioners on Global Tech Security Commission: James Kim (South Korea), American Chamber of Commerce in Korea and former Microsoft Korea; Sameer Patil (India), Observer Research Foundation; Iain Duncan Smith (U.K.), former Conservative Party leader; Audrey Tang (Taiwan), minister-digital affairs for Taiwan and chairperson, National Institute of Cyber Security; and Tadao Yanase (Japan), NTT ... Lions Gate appoints JDH Investment Management founder John Harkey, also Consolidated Restaurant Operations CEO, to board.