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.
International Cable Protection Committee's new general manager is Ryan Wopschall, who was an ICPC member-company representative, replacing Keith Schofield, steps down ... UPS promotes Laura Lane, ex-Time Warner, to chief corporate affairs and communications officer, running public policy and government affairs, public relations, employee communications and UPS Foundation.
DOJ Antitrust Division chief Makan Delrahim promotes Taylor Owings to division acting chief of staff and senior counsel, succeeding outgoing COS William Rinner, who's senior counsel until planned departure from the department "in the coming months" ... Verizon Public Sector names Jennifer Chronis, ex-Amazon Web Services, to lead Federal business; Michael Maiorana, Verizon Federal lead, leaving the business effective Dec. 31 ... Corning taps Chief Legal and Administrative Officer Lewis Steverson to lead new Office of Racial Equality and Social Unity, tasked with building diversity “within the walls of Corning” and in its “communities.”
CTIA hires Avonne Bell, from Kelley Drye, as director-connected life, new title for job previously done by Jackie McCarthy, who went to New England Cable & Television Association (see this section, Jan. 27) ... San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) announces Jordan Sun joins Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation as city's chief innovation officer; he recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan as chief operating officer, Special Operations Joint Task Force, Afghanistan Technology Team with Army.
CenturyLink advances Senior Vice President Dave Young to add hyperscaler business responsibilities as senior vice president-public sector and global hyperscaler ... Alphabet's Verily hires Cynthia Patton from Amgen as general counsel ... DOD Deputy Chief Information Officer-Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer Jack Wilmer leaving ... Northern Virginia Technology Council appointed Brad Schwartz, ex-Blue Canopy, acting president-CEO; Bobbie Kilberg retiring and for a time is NVTC president-CEO emeritus-strategic adviser.
Freshfields hires Julie Elmer from DOJ Antitrust Division’s Technology and Financial Services Section as partner, global antitrust litigation practice, working on tech, telecom and other issues ... FaceBank Group adds Gina DiGioia Sheldon, ex-Fiizy, to newly created role of general counsel; she's also corporate secretary ... Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, promotes Maria Jeffrey to director-speech writing and strategic communications.
Rich Ashooh, who resigned last week as Commerce Department assistant secretary-export administration, hired by Lam Research as global head-government affairs ... TechNet promotes Peter Chandler to vice president-federal policy and government relations ... Digital Realty adds Melody Neil, who ran her own government relations practice, as senior director-business operations and government affairs ... TaxCloud taps Bruce Johnson, the co-founder of Streamlined Sales Tax Implementing States, as vice president-government affairs, legal.
From Raytheon Technologies, Al Thompson joins Intel as vice president, running chipmaker's state and federal governmental relations ... Sinclair Chief Development Officer Scott Shapiro adds newly created post of chief strategy officer-sports ... Wells Fargo adds from Bank of America Ather Williams as head-strategy, digital and innovation.
Jenner & Block hires for Native American Law Practice include as partners Keith Harper, the practice's chair and who has worked on communications and other issues; and Robert Harmala, who works on intellectual property, telecom, media, advertising and other issues and also is chair, Government Relations Practice ... Ford Motor promotes John Mellen to general counsel, effective Aug. 1, replacing Bradley Gayton, who moves to Coca-Cola senior vice president-general counsel Aug. 31.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) designates Commissioner Dan Scripps as chair, Public Service Commission, replacing Sally Talberg, who remains on the commission; she resigned as chairman due to being considered to serve on Electric Reliability Council of Texas board, a position needing Texas Public Utility Commission OK; if that occurs, she would resign from the PSC before joining the board in January ... Internet Infrastructure Coalition and Domain Name Association plan to combine; spokesperson tells us the joint board will include Melinda Clem, from Afilias, as chairwoman, and James Bladel, GoDaddy; Christian Dawson is executive director; he's on the board of i2C, where he's also executive director and co-founder.