National Association of Tower Erectors newly elects to 2016 board Kevin Dougherty, Millennia Contracting ... Lobbyist registrations: ex2 Technology, a broadband infrastructure firm, Fox Rothschild, effective Dec. 1 ... Financial Innovation Now, mobile payments firm, Franklin Square Group, effective Nov. 2.
FTC names Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, chief technologist, effective next month, succeeding Ashkan Soltani ... Wilson Electronics hires Bruce Lancaster, ex-Logitech, as CEO, succeeding Donald Blohm, who continues in an advisory role as Sorenson Capital operating partner ... MPAA hires Chris Ortman, ex-CreativeFuture and briefly consultant, as vice president-corporate communications/chief spokesperson, succeeding Kate Bedingfield, hired in August as communications director for office of Vice President Joe Biden, and promotes Sam Newton to deputy director-corporate communications ... Windstream promotes Sarah Day to permanent president-consumer and small business unit, effective Jan. 1 ... AT&T moves John Dwyer to president-Cricket Wireless, succeeding Jennifer Van Buskirk, named president-AT&T Northeast region.
Jenner & Block promotes communications lawyer Sam Feder to managing partner, Washington office ... Interactive Advertising Bureau hires Dave Grimaldi, ex-Pandora, as executive vice president-public policy, and head, Washington office, effective in January ... Entertainment Software Association names directors, Federal Government Affairs department: Nika Nour, ex-Internet Association; Melissa Foxman, ex-Women’s High-Tech Coalition; and Kevin O’Hanlon, promoted ... National Music Publishers’ Association promotes General Counsel Danielle Aguirre to also be executive vice president.
Wilkinson Barker hires wireless lawyer John Scott, ex-Verizon, as of counsel ... Davis Polk hires Mary Marks, ex-Greenberg Traurig, as counsel, Antitrust and Competition Group ... Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers hires Chris Bastian, ex-Comcast, as senior vice president-chief technology officer, effective Dec. 14 ... AMC Networks names as AMC Studios senior vice presidents Valerie Cabrera, ex-Entertainment One, for distribution, and Melissa Landau, ex-Viacom, for business affairs ... NXP Semiconductors names Dan Durn, ex-Freescale Semiconductor, which is combining with NXP, executive vice president-chief financial officer, succeeding Peter Kelly, who will retire in 2017 ... Infoblox hires Atul Garg, ex-Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as executive vice president-engineering ... Entercom hires Liana Huth, ex-Madison Square Garden Co., as vice president-programming innovation, new position ... Mellanox promotes Freddy Gabbay to vice president-software ... GTT hires Luca Smuraglia, ex-Level 3, as vice president-Europe, Middle East and Africa enterprise business.
Hogan Lovells hires Alexi Maltas, ex-Cablevision, as partner, Communications Practice Group, focusing on cable, new media, pay-TV, Internet services and wireless issues ... CTIA hires Maria Kirby, ex-aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, as assistant vice president-regulatory affairs and associate general counsel, focusing on emerging technologies, the IoT and international spectrum ... Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike Lee, R-Utah, Chief of Staff Boyd Matheson stepping down to become a consultant to Lee's re-election campaign, succeeded by Allyson Bell, promoted, effective in January ... CBS promotes Jeff Shultz to senior vice president-business development, CBS Radio ... CloudPay hires Brian Radin, ex-Trulify, as chief revenue officer, new position.
Keysight Technologies adds to board Mark Templeton, ex-Citrix Systems, effective Dec. 1 ... Lobbyist registrations: CenturyLink, The Washington Tax & Public Policy Group, effective Oct. 15 ... TracFone Wireless, Wiley Rein, effective Nov. 2.
FCC hires Jonathan Mayer, computer science expert and lawyer who has been at Stanford University, as chief technologist, Enforcement Bureau, where he will work on issues including privacy and security ... Palo Alto Networks hires Lucas Moody, ex-Intuit, as chief information security officer ... Returning to PCTel is Sumeet Paul, ex-Synchronoss Technologies, to lead its SeeHawk Analytics operation.
Marathon Strategies hires Valery Galasso, who left FCC as aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel (see 1511190031), as vice president-public affairs and public policy ... FTC promotes Ginger Zhe Jin, on sabbatical from the University of Maryland, to director, Economics Bureau, effective in January and succeeding Francine Lafontaine, returning to University of Michigan, and hires Alison Oldale, Compass Lexecon, as bureau’s deputy director-antitrust, effective next month ... Sprint hires Jorge Gracia, ex-Samsung Electronics America, as senior vice president-general counsel, effective Jan. 2, succeeding Charles Wunsch, leaving Sprint, effective Jan. 29 ... Vonage hires Susan Quackenbush, ex-Presidio, as chief human resources officer, effective Nov. 30 ... ViaWest hires Jason Nance, ex-SunGard Availability Services, as senior vice president-sales... Lobbyist registration: Twilio, Millennial Bridge Consulting, effective Oct. 23.
CTIA hires Paul Anuszkiewicz, ex-Caten McGuire, as vice president-spectrum planning, effective Sept. 28; Eshwar Pittampalli, ex-Open Mobile Alliance, as director-wireless technology, effective Nov. 9; and James Robertson, ex-House Transportation and Public Assets Subcommittee, as director-government affairs, effective Oct. 13 ... CSG CEO Peter Kalan retiring at year's end; Bret Griess, president-chief operating officer, to succeed him as president-CEO and joins board ... Viacom moves Chris Viscardi to senior vice president-content development, Nickelodeon Franchise Properties, new position ... Hearst Television promotes Michael Neelly to president-general manager, WAPT-TV Jackson, Mississippi, succeeding Stuart Kellogg, who has said (see 1510280027) he's retiring ... Real Wireless hires Simon Fletcher, ex-NEC Telecom Modus, as chief technology officer ... Charles River Associates hires cybersecurity experts Cuyler Robinson as vice president and Jordan Kraner as principal.
Center for Democracy & Technology hires Katharina Kopp, ex-American Express, as director, Privacy & Data Project ... Sprint names Jaime Jones, president-Postpaid and General Business organization, as area president-South, as part of the company's planned restructuring into four geographic areas, and company hires Annette Jacobs, ex-Newport Board Group, as president-Pacific Northwest region ... Intel hires Venkata Murthy Renduchintala, who Qualcomm said earlier last week left that company, as president, newly created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, and an executive officer of Intel Corp. ... PCTel names to board Gina Haspilaire, Reliance Communications (Enterprise) and Global Cloud Xchange ... Lobbyist registration: CGI Federal, an IT company, McDermott Will & Emery, effective Nov. 19.