WilmerHale adds former FTC officials Jennifer Milici, ex-Competition Bureau, and Dominic Vote, ex-Mergers II Division, as partners, Antitrust Group; Milici also joins the Trial Practice; both "anticipate officially beginning at the firm in March" ... SoftBank Group announces Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure departs the company “by mutual agreement,” and moves Michel Combes to replace him as CEO, SoftBank Group International.
Manatt Phelps adds Nathaniel Bach from Gibson Dunn to its entertainment litigation practice as a partner in its Los Angeles office ... ICANN Chief Security, Stability and Resiliency Officer John Crain becomes senior vice president-chief technology officer; he now reports to President-CEO Goran Marby; Crain succeeds David Conrad, who left in October ... Soundtrack Your Brand, digital music streaming service for businesses, hires Recording Academy’s Lisa Farris as chief marketing officer.
Jenner & Block hires from Hogan Lovells Trey Hanbury as partner and co-chair, Communications, Internet and Technology Practice ... CTIA hires Amy Bender from NCTA as CTIA vice president-regulatory affairs ... Center for Democracy & Technology hires Eric Null, ex-Access Now, as director, Privacy & Data Project ... ASCAP promotes to senior vice presidents: Elizabeth Rodda, for international affairs; Matt DeFilippis, licensing; and Alex Grout, membership and business and legal affairs ... USTelecom appoints Emma Christman as senior director-media affairs and digital engagement; she joins from Glen Echo Group.
Ex-wireless associate corporate counsel Raymond Navarro joins DLA Piper’s Telecom group as associate; he also works on space and satellite issues ... Reddit adds Carla McIntosh from Google, as vice president-global talent acquisition, and promotes Anna Soellner to vice president-communications, Mary Ann Belliveau to vice president-North America large customer sales, and Saad Rehmani to executive vice president-engineering ... Splunk hires Capital One’s Rolddy Leyva as chief diversity officer.
OpenText hires Sandy Ono from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also former Disney, as chief marketing officer; Michael Acedo rises to chief legal officer and corporate secretary, succeeding Gordon Davies, who becomes senior adviser to the CEO until his retirement in September; Doug Parker ascends to executive vice president-corporate development ... Podcast hosting platform Liberated Syndication announces John Gibbons from Pocket Casts, also former Amazon, as president and chief product officer.
At Tech Oversight Project, executive director is Sacha Haworth, ex-American Bridge 21st Century, and deputy executive director-communications director is Kyle Morse, ex-Trump War Room ... Disney promotes Trisha Husson to head-strategy, business operations and finance, Disney General Entertainment; Eric Marcotte adds oversight of strategy and business operations team as senior vice president.
Woods Aitken adds Shana Knutson as partner, working on telecom, business services and real estate law; she was Nebraska Public Service Commission general counsel ... Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden reappoints Judge David Strickler as copyright royalty judge (economics) for six-year term ... Karen Modlin says she's leaving Dish Network for Zayo, which hires her as director-communications.
NAB hires third-generation broadcaster Bradford Caldwell, ex-chief financial officer of East Arkansas Broadcasters, as vice president-member experience, effective Feb. 1; NAB post is a new one following retirement of Senior Vice President-Member Services and Operations BJ Corriveau at year end's 2021 ... CBS News and Stations moves Joel Goldberg to general manager, CBS Newspath; he remains senior vice president-operations, CBS Stations.
At Graham Holdings, Graham Media President-CEO Emily Barr retires "later this year"; Catherine Badalamente, vice president-chief innovation officer, becomes her successor ... Lumen hires Stephanie Minnock as assistant general counsel, replacing Jeff Lanning; she works on USF issues and comes from FCC Wireline Bureau’s Telecom Access Policy Division; Lanning previously went to Womble Bond.
News Media Alliance affiliate American Press Institute hires Michael Bolden as executive director-CEO; he's from the San Francisco Chronicle and starts at API by Feb. 14 ... National Emergency Number Association taps Brooks Shannon as interoperability program manager; he was vice president-geographic information systems, RapidDeploy ... CommScope hires Markus Ogurek from Cisco as senior vice president-segment leader, Venue and Campus Networks business ... Strategic Venue Partners taps former AT&T executive Kevin Hetrick as chief operating officer of the provider of in-building wireless-connectivity-as-a-service.