Telephone and Data Systems promotes Colleen Thompson to vice president-corporate relations, effective Sept. 27; Jane McCahon stays in her current role as senior vice president-corporate relations and corporate secretary until May, when she becomes vice president-corporate secretary ... Nexstar names Lloyd Bucher vice president-general manager, broadcast and digital operations in Charlotte, effective Sept. 29 ... Center for a New American Security names ex-inaugural director-DOD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Jack Shanahan adjunct senior fellow-Technology and National Security Program, doing research on military adoption of AI ... In ColoHouse collocation services provider buy of data center firm Lume Cloud, Lume CEO Kyle Verzello continues "to lead the cloud-based product suites and teams" ... Connected learning platform Chegg names Squarespace CFO Marcela Martin to its board ... Cybersecurity company Coalfire adds ex-Ping Identity CFO Michael Sullivan to its board.
Wireless Infrastructure Association promotes Matt Mandel to senior vice president-government and public affairs; Marta Sokol to chief financial officer; Tracy Ford to vice president-member services; and Michael Barrett to senior associate-sales and business development ... DLA Piper moves Washington Managing Partner Smitty Smith to chair, Regulatory and Government Affairs practice ... Facebook adds outgoing Senate Commerce Committee Democratic Staff Director John Branscome, who's retiring (see 2109070061), to be liaison with White House and executive branch agencies.
USTelecom promotes Trevor Jones to vice president-government affairs ... Analog Devices taps Janene Asgeirsson from Acacia Communications as senior vice president-chief legal officer and corporate secretary ... International Trade Commission promotes Monica Bhattacharyya from its Office of Unfair Import Investigations to administrative law judge for Tariff Act Section 337 patent infringement cases.
Wireless Infrastructure Association hires Sasha Galbreath, ex-Clyde Group, and Marshall Miller, ex-DDC Public Affairs, as public affairs managers ... Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden promotes Judith Conklin to chief information officer and John Rutledge to deputy chief information officer; Conklin becomes "primary adviser" to Hayden on "all technology matters" and an executive committee voting member ... Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency adds Kiersten Todt, ex-Cyber Readiness Institute, as CISA chief of staff.
Kelley Drye hires ex-FTC officials Jessica Rich, who remains a fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, as of counsel, and Laura Riposo VanDruff from AT&T, as partner; they join the law firm’s Privacy and Advertising practice groups ... OneWeb adds Chris Moore, ex-U.K. official, as vice president-international government and trade engagement, Government and Regulatory Affairs Team ... Covington taps ex-Senate Judiciary Committee General Counsel Nick Xenakis for the law firm's Public Policy practice as special counsel ... TechNet promotes Meghan Pearce to manager-federal policy.
President Joe Biden to nominate Willie Phillips, chairman of the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; he remains PSC chairman until he's confirmed at FERC, per a spokesperson for the DC agency ... Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reappoints Arthur Graham and Andrew Fay to Public Service Commission; the governor's office says "each reappointment is for a four-year term and is subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate."
Software and Information Industry Association hires Paul Lekas, ex-National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, as SIIA senior vice president-global public policy, and Renee Harris-Etheridge, ex-National Association for Home Care & Hospice, as vice president-marketing and membership ... Perkins Coie adds Belinda Nixon from FCC, where she was Wireless Bureau’s Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division deputy chief, to the law firm as partner, Technology Transactions & Privacy Law Practice and Communications Industry Group ... Fox promotes Elizabeth Casey to deputy general counsel, Fox Corp. and general counsel, Fox Sports; Claudia Teran steps down as Fox corporate general counsel and Fox Sports general counsel; Fox Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Nicholas Trutanich now also executive vice president-litigation.
SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure, ex-Sprint, nominated for election to Deutsche Telekom board under SoftBank-DT strategic partnership and equity share swap agreement (see 2109070038) ... Network Advertising Initiative hires Farah Zaman, ex-Meredith, as vice president-general counsel ... Secureworks promotes Wendy Thomas to CEO, succeeding retiring Michael Cote, who also leaves the board ... Online consumer reviews platform Trustpilot adds Alicia Skubick from Intuit QuickBooks as chief marketing officer, effective Oct. 4 ... Intelligent software systems provider Wind River hires Microsoft’s Avijit Sinha as chief product officer ... Cybersecurity company Vehere adds ex-Forescout Chief Revenue Officer Steve Redman, also former McAfee, as an adviser to its board ... National CineMedia announces return of Maria Woods from JumpCloud as executive vice president-general counsel.
NRTC taps Tom Whitaker, ex-Shentel, for new post: vice president-member operations ... Granite Telecommunications promotes Sana Sheikh to vice president-transformation, deputy general counsel and vice president-strategic affairs ... Circle City Broadcasting Owner-CEO-President DuJuan McCoy and data scientist Roosevelt Smith start eMedia Augmentation; McCoy is the new firm's CEO and Smith the chief technology officer.
O’Melveny hires trial lawyer Timothy Durst, ex-Baker Botts, as partner, and his clients have been in technology, telecom and other industries ... Panasonic North America Chief Human Resources Officer Megan Myungwon Lee promoted to chairwoman-CEO, effective Oct. 1, to succeed departing Michael Moskowitz ... Connected TV adtech platform MNTN hires Joanne Bradford from PayPal-affiliated Honey as chief growth officer ... Office of U.S. Trade Representative moves Dawn Shackleford to assistant USTR for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, replacing Karl Ehlers, who retired in May.