Internet Association founding President-CEO Michael Beckerman resigns, effective Feb. 29, to join TikTok, becoming vice president-public policy; assists with search as General Counsel Jon Berroya becomes interim president-CEO ... Utilities Technology Council taps David Rardin, from office of Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, as director-government affairs and communications ... Next Century Cities Policy Adviser Christopher Mitchell steps down, remains at Institute for Local Self-Reliance; Next Century Cities Senior Program Manager Cat Blake also leaving.
Drinker Biddle announces Timothy Scull, Kirstin Stoll-DeBell, Andrew Pouzeshi and Kathleen Ott, all from Merchant & Gould, as partners-intellectual property ... General Services Administration advances Federal Acquisition Service acting Commissioner Julie Dunneto permanent post ... ViacomCBS appoints George Cheeks, from NBCUniversal, president-CEO, CBS Entertainment Group, effective March 23, succeeding Joe Ianniello, leaving company and assisting with transition.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces retirements of Brian Carter, International Bureau regional specialist; Rashmi Doshi, Office of Engineering and Technology laboratory chief; Suzanne Tetreault, Wireless Bureau deputy chief; James Lichford, Wireline Bureau Pricing Policy Division; Rosa Bell-Atkins, Office of Secretary information specialist; and from Enforcement Bureau, Frank Haynes, Jim Scott and Fraud Division Investigative Counsel MaryBeth DeLuca; and Ryan Hagihara, Honolulu field office.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces he's moving Margaret Wiener to associate chief, Office of Economics and Analytics, Evan Kwerel to senior economic adviser to OEA chief, and Jonathan Campbell to chief of OEA-auctions ... DOJ appoints Alexander Okuliar, from Orrick Herrington, deputy assistant attorney general-antitrust ... National Association of Attorneys General’s National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute names Paul Nolette, Marquette University, research consultant.
Debevoise & Plimpton announces Avi Gesser, ex-Davis Polk, as partner-cybersecurity and data privacy ... Davis Polk adds Suzanne Munck af Rosenschold, ex-FTC, as counsel-antitrust and competition ... Carmi Zlotnik resigning as Starz president-programming at month’s end, continues consulting to aid with transition.
IHeartMedia promotes for Pennsylvania, Brit Goldstein to area president; Nick Mickley to market president-Harrisburg, Reading and Lancaster; and Dave Hovel to area senior vice president-programming ... HID Global announces Bjorn Lidefelt, from parent company Assa Abloy, president-CEO.
Davis Wright names David Gossett (see this section, Jan. 23 and 24) to newly launched products counseling team, part of tech, privacy and security practice group and headed by Danielle Frappier ... Jackie McCarthy, from CTIA, becomes New England Cable & Television Association head-public policy, regulatory and external affairs; also from CTIA, Jaime Hjort becomes Amazon senior manager-public policy ... NPR promotes Keith Woods to chief diversity officer, new position ... Christopher Krepich, communications director for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., leaving for office of Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio ... Twitter adds to Washington office Reggie McCrimmon, ex-Impact Strategies, for public policy team, and Trenton Kennedy, ex-office of Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., in policy communications.
House Antitrust Subcommittee hires as counsel Phillip Berenbroick, who left Public Knowledge (see this section, Jan. 23) ... George Mason University’s Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property Deputy Director Kevin Madigan leaving to become Copyright Alliance vice president-legal policy and copyright counsel ... Crown Media President-CEO Bill Abbott leaving ... PrecisionHawk names James Norrod, ex-Tellabs, CEO, succeeding Michael Chasen, leading advisory board ... Avaya appoints Simon Harrison, from Gartner, senior vice president-chief marketing officer.
David Gossett, ex-FCC, joins Davis Wright (see this section, Jan. 22) as partner, Technology, Privacy & Security Practice Group ... Phillip Berenbroick leaves Public Knowledge for Capitol Hill ... Brookings Institution names Bill Baer, ex-DOJ, visiting fellow-governance studies, antitrust and competition policy ... Center for Growth and Opportunity taps Will Rinehart, from American Action Forum, as director-technology and innovation policy.
Davis Wright hires David Gossett, ex-FCC Office of General Counsel, as a partner, a colleague tells us; he filed Tuesday in a court case that he signs (in Pacer) on behalf of the firm; he and the communications law firm don't comment ... FTC Advertising Practices Division Associate Director Mary Engle retiring ... Progressive Policy Institute hires Alec Stapp, ex-International Center for Law & Economics, as director-technology policy.