Governor’s Office of Information Technology hires Brandy Reitter as executive director-Colorado Broadband Office; she's Eagle's town manager; OIT Deputy Executive Director Julia Richman leads office until Reitter joins in February.
GridWise Alliance adds new board members for two-year terms: Stephen Callahan, GridBright executive vice president; Anterix Chief Regulatory and Communications Officer Chris Guttman-McCabe; Giri Iyer, Sentient Energy vice president-business development; Peter Muhoro, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative chief strategy, technology and innovation officer; and Mahesh Sudhakaran, IBM general manager-global energy.
Legend Labs adds Andrew Barlow, who led external affairs for Texas Public Utility Commission, as the communications consulting firm's senior counselor, working with technology and other clients.
Minim, marketer of Motorola-brand networking products, announces Chief Financial Officer Sean Doherty will transition away from his role to pursue a new career opportunity with a private company, staying with Minim through March 31; Dustin Tacker, vice president-accounting and corporate controller, named interim chief accounting officer while Minim searches for Doherty’s successor.
Disney extends contract of Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy through June 2024; it was to expire year-end 2022; Disney also hires Spotify's Horacio Gutierrez as senior executive vice president-general counsel and secretary, effective Feb. 1 ... ViacomCBS moves Casey Kespohl to vice president-brand strategy and development, CBS Stations, a newly created position, and he remains based at WCCO-TV Minneapolis.
At Salem Media, CEO Edward Atsinger moves to newly created role of executive chairman; board taps President-Broadcast Media David Santrella to become CEO; President-Digital Media and Publishing David Evans advances to chief operating officer; Chairman Stuart Epperson resigns from the board, becoming chairman emeritus, and Stuart Epperson Jr. joins the board, filling that vacancy; moves are effective Jan. 1.
Interactive Advertising Bureau hires Lartease Tiffith, ex-Amazon, as executive vice president-public policy, "on the heels of news that the Internet Association is dissolving at the end of the year" (see our recent report on IA); IAB also adds Brendan Thomas, ex-Plastics Industry Association, as vice president-public policy communications ... Aimee Meacham, who recently left NTIA (see this section, Dec. 8 issue of this publication), says she's going to BT as vice president-government affairs, U.S. and international.
Shulman Rogers' Alan Tilles says he's leaving the law firm at year-end and beginning a solo law practice "in the telecom and entertainment law areas" ... Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) nominates Patrick Cicero to be the state’s consumer advocate at the Office of Consumer Advocate, where he starts in an acting capacity pending Senate confirmation; Cicero was executive director, Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network ... National Emergency Number Association adds Colorado 911 expert Vicki Pickett as NENA’s education & training director.
North Carolina Chief Information Officer Jim Weaver appoints privacy expert-attorney Cherie Givens as the state’s first privacy officer ... Gov. Janet Mills (D) nominates energy and utility attorney William Harwood as public advocate for state of Maine; he's senior adviser-regulatory affairs, Governor’s Energy Office and he would replace Barry Hobbins, who retired as public advocate in June; Deputy Public Advocate Andrew Landry has been acting public advocate; Mills also puts forward as planned Andrew Butcher for president of the newly-created Maine Connectivity Authority.
Altice USA Executive Vice President-Government & Community Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Lee Schroeder leaves the company in July, with community affairs and chief diversity officer roles going to Executive Vice President-Communications Lisa Gonzalez Anselmo, who continues to report to CEO Dexter Goei; the cable operator "will look to appoint a new head of Government Affairs" ... Among others leaving the FCC whose departure was announced Tuesday by Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (see this section, Dec. 15 issue of this publication) are Wireline Bureau's Pricing Policy Division Deputy Chief Robin Cohn, who says retirement begins at year-end.