Commerce Department moves Doug Kinkoph to acting NTIA administrator (see 1912230065) ... FTC Chairman Joe Simons appoints Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland, director-Bureau of Economics, succeeding Bruce Kobayashi, returning to George Mason University ... Fletcher Heald telecom lawyer Mitchell Lazarus says he’s retiring.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Monisha Ghosh, from National Science Foundation, chief technology officer ... Public Knowledge appoints Diego Rivera, ex-Equal Rights Center, director-finance and administration, and Tsion Tesfaye, ex-CeaseFirePA, communications justice fellow, launching Tech Policy Diversity Project ... Jenner & Block promotes to partners Christopher Lindsay, media and entertainment litigation, and Johanna Thomas, communications, internet and technology.
Hogan Lovells confirms Asia Pacific and Middle East regional chief executive Miguel Zaldivar as global CEO, and litigation arbitration and employment head Michael Davison as deputy CEO, effective July 1, succeeding, respectively, Steve Immelt and David Hudd ... Nelson Mullins announces Kevin Mekler, ex-Travelers, as partner-cybersecurity.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden appoints Associate Register-Copyrights Maria Strong to acting register of copyrights and director, Copyright Office, succeeding Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple (see this section, Dec. 10) ... FTC Chairman Joseph Simons promotes Ian Conner to Competition Bureau director and Daniel Francis to deputy director; Gail Levine also deputy director ... President Donald Trump moving Department of Homeland Assistant Secretary-Cyber, Infrastructure and Resilience Policy Bryan Ware to assistant director-cybersecurity.
DOJ moves Seth DuCharme, with cybercrime and national security experience, to principal associate deputy attorney general ... Electronic Frontier Foundation adds Birgitta Jonsdottir, from International Modern Media Institute, as internet archive fellow, and Christoph Schmon, ex-EU Consumer Organisation, as international policy director ... School, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition promotes Alicja Johnson to communications manager ... Aerospace Industries Association hires Alison Lynn, from American Chemistry Council, as vice president-communications.
FCC moves Jonathan McCormack to deputy director, Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force ... FTC Competition Bureau Deputy Director Marian Bruno retiring ... Joseph Lentivech, ex-Patent Trial and Appeal Board, rejoins Harrity & Harrity as counsel-patents ... Electronic Privacy Information Center announces Mary Stone Ross, ex-Californians for Consumer Privacy, as associate director.
Among others retiring from FCC (see 1912120045) are Wireline Bureau's John Hunter, who will work for Foundation for Law and International Affairs, a nonprofit he says tries to make global governance "more inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable"; and Information Systems Specialist Angela Robinson of Information Resources Group, Office of the Secretary.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces Ron Repasi moving to acting chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, replacing Julius Knapp, retiring (see 1911270055); also retiring: Deputy Director, Office of Media Relations Mark Wigfield; Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division attorney-adviser Elizabeth McCarthy; from the Media Bureau, Engineering Division Chief John Wong; Video Division industry analyst John Enoch, Video Division management analyst Ron Graser, Video Division electronics engineer Tanya Nguyen and Video Division Deputy Chief Hossein Hashemzadeh; and from Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Administrative Law Division attorney-advisers Joanne Wall and Frank Inserra.
Alliance for Digital Innovation taps Matthew Cornelius, leaving OMB, as executive director, succeeding Richard Beutel, CEO of Cyrrus Analytics and who remains at ADI as senior policy adviser after stepping down "in light of recent health concerns" ... Van Scoyoc Associates adds cybersecurity and privacy experts from Holland & Knight Norma Krayem as vice president and chair, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice, which she also starts, and names Albert Kammler as the practice's government relations manager.
Aspen Institute hires Vivian Schiller, ex-Civil Foundation, to head newly combined media and technology programs ... Michael Chibib and Conor Civins, both ex-Pillsbury Winthrop, rejoin Bracewell as partners-intellectual property ... Aspen Capital Group names John Gordy, ex-Pritzker Private Capital, and John Haesler, ex-Technology Crossover Ventures, principals.