Sidley promotions, effective Jan. 1, include, to partners Emily Zipperstein, who works on mergers and acquisitions and digital media and commercial transactions; Lauren Grau, who advises on intellectual property in connection with M&A and other deals, with clients in telecom, information technology, software, media and consumer products; Rachelle Soderstrom, who works on technology and IP including in takeovers; and Benjamin Mundel, who represents telecom and other firms at trial and arbitration; while Marc Korman, who represents broadcasters, wireless operators and others on FCC and related communications law issues, moves up to counsel.
District of Columbia Public Service Commissioner Richard Beverly being reappointed for term ending June 30, 2024; PSC spokesperson notes that interim chairman is Emile Thompson, as Chairman Willie Phillips has left the agency for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (see this section, Nov. 19 issue of this publication) ... Verizon moves up Krista Bourne to chief operating officer, Verizon Consumer Group, effective Jan. 1 and reporting to Manon Brouillette, who recently was promoted to Consumer Group CEO, also effective on that date (see this section, Nov. 9 issue of this publication) ... Sonos hires Target’s Shamayne Braman as chief diversity equity and inclusion officer and Rebecca Zavin from Palo Alto Networks as senior vice president-software.
Disney hires former BP executive Geoff Morrell, also ex-ABC News, as senior executive vice president-chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to CEO Bob Chapek in newly created role and effective Jan. 24, with oversight of corporate communications, global public policy, government relations, corporate social responsibility, and environmental, social and governance teams ... Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter appoints Kimberley Isbell as acting general counsel-associate register of copyrights at the Copyright Office, which she joined in 2015 ... Aimee Meacham leaves NTIA, where she was acting deputy associate administrator-international affairs and external affairs chief, BroadbandUSA ...Vivint Smart Home promotes interim General Counsel Garner Meads to chief legal officer and secretary.
USTelecom appoints from OMB Michael Pauls as senior director-government affairs ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation adds ex-FTC economist Julie Carlson as associate director-antitrust and innovation policy, ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy ... Kirkland & Ellis hires Scott Scheele as partner, Antitrust & Competition Practice Group; he was at DOJ as chief, Antitrust Division’s Media, Entertainment and Communications Section.
Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (see 2111290038), restructuring company, promotes Lindsey Iannucci to chief of staff-vice president of operations and moves Kayvon Beykpour, Bruce Falck and Nick Caldwell to general managers for, respectively, consumer, revenue and core tech; Michael Montano, engineering lead, and Dantley Davis, design and research lead, will step down Dec. 31, remain advisers through "end of the first quarter of 2022 to ensure an orderly transition" ... Lyft hires Elaine Paul from Amazon Studios as chief financial officer, effective Jan. 3, replacing Brian Roberts, stepping down, but staying as an adviser until June to help with the transition.
Disney elevates 14-year board veteran Susan Arnold to chair, effective Dec. 31, succeeding Bob Iger when he departs Disney at year-end ... Estrella Media hires former Univision executive Steve Mandala as chief revenue and local media officer ... E-commerce “enablement” platform WeCommerce promotes Alex Persson to CEO and appoints Chris Sparling chairman, replacing Andrew Wilkinson, who keeps his board seat ... IoT security company Identiv taps Justin Scarpulla from SpaceX as chief financial officer, effective Dec. 6 ... Synopsys announces planned 2022 retirement of CFO Trac Pham, who will remain in his current role until a successor is in place ...
As Perry Apelbaum joins DOJ as senior counsel-Antitrust Division from the House Judiciary Committee, Amy Rutkin continues to lead the committee as chief of staff-staff director and taps Aaron Hiller as chief counsel-deputy staff director and promotes John Doty to senior adviser-deputy staff director ... Christine Mailloux, ex-The Utility Reform Network, joins CTC Technology and Energy as principal analyst.
Tejasi Thatte, ex-chief of staff to Rep. Tony Cardenas and ex-NCTA, joins NBCUniversal federal affairs team ... USTelecom names Diana Eisner, ex-Frontier Communications, vice president-policy and advocacy, and Nicole Henry, ex-office of Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., senior director-government affairs; also promotes Hawley Stanton to senior director-government affairs ... John Howes, ex-Wireless Infrastructure Association, becomes counsel and senior policy adviser to Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, with responsibilities including telecom and tech ... New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) appoints Brian Lipman as director-Division of Rate Counsel; he had led it on acting basis after Stefanie Brand retired in September.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down, effective immediately (see 2111290038), will remain on the board until his term expires at 2022 annual meeting; board unanimously appoints Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal to succeed Dorsey, and names Bret Taylor its new chair, succeeding Patrick Pichette, who will remain on the board and continue as chair of its audit committee.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announces that with California Public Utilities Commission President Marybel Batjer retiring effective Dec. 30, Senior Adviser to the Governor-Energy Alice Reynolds becomes next CPUC president, effective Dec. 31.