Longtime NTIA Deputy Chief of Staff and Director-Congressional Affairs Jim Wasilewski retires, replaced on interim basis by Deputy Director-Congressional Affairs and Telecom Policy Jason Goldman ... Kate Rouch says she's leaving Facebook to become Coinbase's first chief marketing officer ... CBS News and Stations promotes Tim Wieland to vice president-general manager, CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in Denver, including KCNC-TV, CBSN Denver and CBSDenver.com.
Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies names George Kelemen, ex-Texas Retailers Association, executive director, succeeding Kim Robert Scovill ... Intel picks Bruce Andrews, ex-SoftBank, as corporate vice president-chief government affairs officer, effective Sept. 7 ... Hill+Knowlton Strategies hires Laurie Rosenfield from CBS as global chief people officer, effective Sept. 13.
CPB names Stacey Decker, ex-Public Media Management, senior vice president-innovation and system strategies, effective Sept. 13 ... Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy promotes Joshua Kresh to managing director ... Network Advertising Initiative adds former NAI interns Cathy Lee and Ryan Smith as counsels for compliance and policy, and promotes Fatiha Tabibipour to coordinator-communications and public policy.
Digital Progress Institute officials are Joel Thayer, ex-ACT|The App Association, president; Nick Degani, ex-FCC, chief strategist; and Kim Keenan, Internet Innovation Alliance, board member ... TDK hires ex-Qualcomm Snapdragon executive Jim Tran, also ex-Broadcom, as CEO-TDK USA, and general manager-Americas HQ, plus senior team member of TDK’s sensor system business ... Cybersecurity vendor Cyber Defense Labs promotes Chief Operating Officer Jason Cook to president.
Internet Association names Jeanine Poltronieri, ex-AT&T, general counsel and senior vice president-legal and policy affairs ... Tkeyah Lake, ex-Betty&Smith, joins CTIA as director-digital strategy ... Past board Chair Chris Dimitriadis, ex-Intralot, becomes first chief global strategy officer of ISACA (former Information Systems Audit and Control Association).
TechFreedom says Bilal Sayyed, ex-FTC, becomes senior competition counsel ... Cybersecurity company Field Effect adds Fullscript’s Peter Hunter as chief financial officer ... Science Applications International Corp. hires Aflac’s Catherine Hernandez-Blades, also former Flextronics, as senior vice president-marketing and communications ... Sinclair’s Bally Sports taps Rebecca O’Sullivan-Schulte from NBC Sports Washington, D.C., as senior vice president-general manager, Bally Sports West, Bally Sports SoCal and Bally Sports San Diego ... Distributor Heilind Electronics announces Wilson Thoo, ex-Taiyo Yuden, as marketing director-Asia Pacific.
Former FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry joins Akin Gump as partner-communications and information technology section of its regulatory practice ...Robert Thormeyer leaving as vice president-communications and advocacy at Utilities Technology Council, no plans announced ... Livestreaming audio service TuneIn promotes Deanna Grams to chief people officer ... Ad software company Viant taps Fandango’s Lisa Harrington as chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... DXC Technology hires GE’s Chris Drumgoole, also ex-Verizon, as executive vice president-chief operating officer ... Digital identity platform AlertEnterprise announces Harsh Chauhan from SAP as chief technology officer.
Summit Ridge Group adds: Robin Flynn, ex-Kagan, as adviser and media sector consultant; Rebecca Hanson, ex-HC2 Broadcasting, as adviser and regulatory consultant; and Whitney Lohmeyer, ex-MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as adviser and engineering consultant.
Heather Purcell leaves as communications director for Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., effective Aug. 18, to be replaced by Marie Baldassarre, from office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Aug. 31 ... Somos hires Kevin Green, ex-FCC, as senior director-public policy and external relations.
Intelligent Transportation Society promotes Laura Chace to president-CEO, effective Aug. 30 ... Digital identity platform ForgeRock hires Cisco’s Tschudy Smith as chief people officer ... Cybersecurity company Exabeam adds former Forescout and McAfee executive Pedro Abreu as chief operating officer.