TechNet hires Carl Holshouser, ex-PwC, as senior vice president-operations and strategic initiatives … ChaosSearch, cloud data lake platform analytics company, appoints Ed Walsh, ex-IBM, as CEO and board member … Nexstar Broadcasting names David Bangura, from Michigan’s WADL Mount Clemens and WFDF(AM) Farmington Hills, vice president-general manager, Washington, D.C., designated market area … Sinclair promotes Cortlandt Cuffee to vice president-general manager, Oregon’s KATU Portland and KUNP La Grande.
Wisper ISP, selling a minority interest to Cable One, says founder Nathan Stooke, previously the sole owner, remains largest owner and CEO ... Comcast NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group advances Migdalia Figueroa to president-general manager, WTMO Orlando ... With UPS promoting Laura Lane as it created Corporate Affairs and Communications Office (see this section, July 30), Mike Kiely and Penny Naas elevated to co-lead Global Public Affairs; Kiely as president-U.S. Government Affairs and Naas, president-International Public Affairs and Sustainability ... Activision Blizzard adds Tony Petitti, ex-Major League Baseball deputy commissioner-business and media, as president-sports and entertainment.
Arnold & Porter adds from Banner Witcoff Christopher Renk and Michael Harris as partners and Helen Minsker as senior counsel, all in Intellectual Property practice and working on issues including tech ... Semiconductor Research Corp. board names its Joint University Microelectronics Program Executive Director Todd Younkin, ex-Intel, as president-CEO, SRC, succeeding Ken Hansen ... Flex hires Paul Lundstrom, ex-Aerojet Rocketdyne, as chief financial officer, succeeding Chris Collier, resigning for personal reasons and staying on as employee and a senior adviser to CEO Revathi Advaithi, Sept. 1-March 31.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces changes in his office (see also this section, Aug. 7 issue): Sean Spivey joins from Wireless Bureau as wireless and international adviser, replacing Aaron Goldberger, returning to the bureau; Allison Baker named economic adviser, comes from Wireline Bureau; chairman’s Rural Broadband Adviser Preston Wise expands role to wireline adviser, replacing Nirali Patel, going back to Wireline Bureau; and Melissa Kirkel, who has been on detail as special counsel-wireline, returns to the bureau ... Arnold & Porter hires Jessica Monahan from National Association of Counties as policy adviser; she has worked on transportation and technology ... Scanlon Rabinowitz adds Roy Shulman, ex-Prudential Financial, as special counsel focusing on technology, contract and intellectual property law.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says wireline adviser Nirali Patel, wireless and international adviser Aaron Goldberger and wireline expert Melissa Kirkel are leaving his office, and spokesperson later says those staffers are returning to their bureaus; International Bureau Satellite Division Chief Jose Albuquerque retiring; and Pai office interns including Joe Kane have their terms ending ... Information Technology Industry Council taps Robert Strayer, former State Department deputy assistant secretary-cyber and international communications and information policy, as executive vice president-policy (see 2008060068) ... Open Markets Institute and Center for Journalism & Liberty hire Johnny Ryan, formerly at Brave privacy web browser, as senior OMI fellow and to CJL Trans-Atlantic Board as advisory member.
Rose Bowl Stadium and Rose Bowl Legacy launch Rose Bowl Institute to "champion sportsmanship and leverage the power of sports to unite people," with ex-Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program Executive Director Charlie Firestone the new think tank's president ... FirstNet adds Brandon Allen from International Association of Fire Chiefs as telecom policy analyst ... North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) selects Thomas Parrish as acting secretary, Department of Information Technology, where he's deputy chief information officer; Parrish succeeds Tracy Doaks (see June 19 issue, this section).
USTelecom hires Josh Bercu, departing Wilkinson Barker, for vice president-policy and advocacy, and Kayla Gardner from Wireless Infrastructure Association as director-policy and partnerships, effective Aug. 24 ... Intelsat adds Peter Davidson, ex-George Mason University Law School, as vice president-global government affairs and policy, new post ... Homeland Security and Defense Business Council appoints Rafael Borras from A.T. Kearney as president-CEO; ex-HSDBC President-CEO Marc Pearl retired in March.
Takatoshi Tsujimura of Konica Minolta becomes Society for Information Display president, succeeding Helge Seetzen, TandemLaunch, whose two-year term expires ... Dish Network hires William Beckwith, ex-FCC Public Safety Bureau, as director-wireless regulatory affairs ... Perkins Coie adds Stephen Ferruolo, ex-University of San Diego School of Law dean, as partner, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice; the life sciences lawyer also works on technology issues.
Paul Weiss adds from Boies Schiller Meredith Dearborn and Jessica Phillips as partners, Litigation Department; the trial lawyers have represented technology businesses ... Mechanical Licensing Collective hires Monique Benjamin , ex-Warner Music Nashville, as head-finance; Natalie Kilgore, ex-BBR Music Group, as head-public relations; and Maurice Russell, ex-Media Rights Management, as head-rights management ... House Commerce Committee Deputy Press Secretary Evan Gilbert leaving panel for law school.
FCC hires Tom Struble from R Street Institute as legal adviser, Office of Engineering and Technology ... With Trustworthy Accountability Group and Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards combining, Internet Advertising Bureau chief Mike Zaneis will be CEO for the combined organization, to be called TAG, while Jicwebs' Jules Kendrick is managing director-U.K. and Europe; deal to be completed in September ... David Lieber from Google says he joins TikTok public policy team to work on privacy; company doesn't comment further.