Changes at NASA: Matt Anderson, ex-CACI, nominated to be deputy administrator, replacing Pamela Melroy, who stepped down in January; acting Administrator Janet Petro promotes David Gallagher to director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, replacing Laurie Leshin, stepping down June 1 … Spectrum optimization and RF firm Digital Global Systems names Lewis Merletti, ex-Secret Service, to its advisory board … Wireless voice provider and integrator BearCom names Ramnik Kamo, formerly Mavenir, COO.
Nexstar names Bill Nardi, formerly Tegna, as vice president-station operations, replacing Mark Turner, retiring July 1 … Jenner & Block taps Matt Pearl, formerly National Security Council, as of counsel and member of the communications, internet and technology and the critical and emerging technologies practices … Mike Mullen, ex-Empire Consulting Group and NAB, joins Smith-Free Group as senior vice president … Sena Fitzmaurice, senior vice president-corporate communications, leaving Comcast at year’s end … Voice on the Net Coalition names 2025-26 board: Anne Bowling, RingCentral (chairperson); Olive Morris, Telnyx (president); Jessica Jones, Twilio (secretary); Brendan Kasper, 8X8 (treasurer); Darah Franklin, Google; Paula Boyd, Microsoft; John Murphy, Nextiva.
Changes at the Maryland Public Service Commission: Kristin Lawrence promoted to chief public utility law judge, effective July 1, replacing Ryan McLean, who becomes a commissioner, replacing Michael Richard, who is retiring … In-building wireless provider Strategic Venue Partners names David Tokunaga, ex-Boingo Wireless, as COO … Wireless broadband firm Inseego adds George Mulhern, formerly Ericsson, to board.
Eutelsat names Jean-Francois Fallacher, formerly Orange France, as CEO, effective June 1, replacing Eva Berneke, who will assist with the transition ... Hannah Lepow, ex-FCC, becomes senior counsel-regulatory affairs at NBCUniversal (see 2504160020) … The American Telemedicine Association elects Nate Lacktman, Foley & Lardner, as chair.
Wavsys names Tim Courtney as president.
NTIA names Chief Counsel Mike Cannon executive director and CEO, FirstNet Authority ... Alaskan telecom provider MTA CEO Michael Burke is retiring in September; search for replacement is underway … Changes at Corning: Avery Nelson elected executive vice president; he will also become COO when President and COO Eric Musser retires later this year; Lewis Steverson elected vice chairman and executive vice president; John Zhang elected executive vice president and chief corporate development officer.
Sinclair's Tennis Channel names Jeff Blackburn, ex-Amazon, chairman and CEO, replacing Ken Solomon, who left last year … Television Bureau of Advertising President and CEO Steve Lanzano will retire at year’s end; a nationwide search for his replacement is underway … Rivada Space Networks appoints Mustafa Afifi as sales director-Middle East region.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr names Joseph Calascione, ex-Akin Gump and FCC, Wireline Bureau chief, replacing acting Chief Trent Harkrader ... Vonage promotes Seckin Arikan to COO; Christophe Van de Weyer, formerly Proximus Group, replaces him as president and head of business unit API … Changes at TowerCom: George Davis promoted to CEO; Matt Richard to CFO, replacing Dave Olson, a board member; Chip Bulloch to senior vice president-East, a new position; John Stevens, ex-Boingo Wireless, joins as regional vice president-West, replacing Chris Colton, deceased ... Correction: Trent Harkrader, who has stepped down as acting FCC Wireless Bureau chief, has been at the agency since 1999 (see 2504280019).
Trent Harkrader steps down as FCC's acting Wireline Bureau chief; FCC retirements include: Public Safety Bureau Associate Chief Jeffery Goldthorp (22 years of service); Wireless Bureau's John Lambert (17); from Office of General Counsel: Lori Alexiou (21) and Larry Atlas (18) ... The U.K. Office of Communications names to three-year terms on new online information advisory committee: Elisabeth Costa, Behavioural Insights Team; Jeffrey Howard, University College London; Will Moy, Campbell Collaboration; Mark Scott, Atlantic Council; and Devika Shanker-Grandpierre, EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation.
Nonprofit digital technology accelerator Numana names Bernard Duval, Mitacs, president and CEO, succeeding Francois Borrelli, who will continue as special adviser and ambassador for the Kirq project.