FCC Chairman Brendan Carr promotes Jacob Lewis to acting general counsel, replacing Michelle Ellison; Patrick Webre to acting chief, Enforcement Bureau, replacing Peter Hyun; Eduard Bartholme to acting chief, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, replacing Alejandro Roark; Erin Boone to acting chief, Media Bureau, replacing Holly Saurer. Carr moves Joel Taubenblatt to acting chief, Wireless Bureau; Trent Harkrader to acting chief, Wireline Bureau; Debra Jordan to acting chief, Public Safety Bureau.

New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to keep Greg Watson as his chief of staff; he names Scott Delacourt, ex-Wiley, chief of staff of the commission; Adam Chan, ex-Boyden Gray, national security senior counsel; Anthony Patrone, ex-NTIA, legal adviser; Matt Mittelstaedt, ex-office of then-Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, director-office of legislative affairs; Arpan Sura, former senior counsel-Wireless Bureau, senior counsel-spectrum and technology; Danielle Thumann, Carr's legal adviser, becomes senior counsel-wireline, public safety and consumer protection; Erin Boone, former chief of staff and wireless adviser to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, becomes Carr's senior counsel-media and enforcement; Wireline Bureau's Callie Coker, moves to legal adviser-chairman's office; Drema Johnson continues as Carr's confidential assistant; Stephanie Chambless, ex-House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, named special counsel-Office of the General Counsel ... GeoLinks names David Gray, ex-Splice, channel sales leader … Broadband telecommunications services company Boston Omaha adds David Graff, ex-Hudl, to board.

O-RAN Alliance reelects board chair Abdurazak Mudesir, Deutsche Telekom, and elects board directors and alternate directors for two-year terms: Yigal Elbaz (director), Brian Daly (alternate director), AT&T; Eben Albertyn, Jingyi Zhou, Boost Mobile; Yuhong Huang, Chich-Lin I, China Mobile; Yue Wang, Qingtian Wang, China Telecom; Abdurazak Mudesir, Petr Ledl, Deutsche Telekom; Takuya Sawada, Masaaki Koga, KDDI; Takaaki Sato, Masafumi Masuda NTT DOCOMO; Claire Chauvin, Atoosa Hatefi, Orange; Sharad Sriwastawa, Awn Muhammad, Rakuten Mobile; Ryuji Wakikawa, Alex Jinsung Choi, SoftBank; Enrique Blanco, Jose Luis Espla, Telefonica; Andrea Calvi, Marco Caretti, TIM; Michael Irizarry, Narothum Saxena, UScellular; Steven Rice, Edward Diaz, Verizon; Nadia Benabdallah, Francisco Martin, Vodafone.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo names to Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee: Reza Arefi, Apple; Andy Bater, American Farm Bureau Federation’s National Technology Committee; Donna Bethea-Murphy, Inmarsat; Mary Brown, Salt Point Strategies; Hilary Cain, Alliance for Automotive Innovation; Michael Calabrese, New American Foundation’s Wireless Future Project; Stephen Devine, APCO International; Thomas Dombrowsky, T-Mobile; Michele Farquhar, Hogan Lovells; Mark Gibson, CommScope; Kalpak Gude, Amazon; Tim Harrington, Ultra-Wideband Alliance; Carolyn Kahn, Mitre; Colleen King, Charter; Jennifer McCarthy, consultant; Amit Mukhopadhyay, Nokia Bell Labs; Karl Nebbia, Huntington Ingalls; Aspasia Paroutsas, Qualcomm; Louis Peraertz, Wireless Internet Service Providers Association; Brian Regan, Quadra Partners; Dennis Roberson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Andrew Roy, Aviation Spectrum Resources; Jesse Russell, incNetworks; Sanyogita Shamsunder, NextNav; Jeff Stewart, AT&T; Christopher Szymanski, Broadcom; Rikin Thakker, NCTA; Bryan Tramont, Wilkinson Barker Knauer; Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin; and Robert Weller, NAB.

FCC retirements: Rosemary Harold and David Snavely, Media Bureau; William Dever, Office of the General Counsel; Joyce Jones, Wireless Bureau, Kim Wild, Lyle Ishida and Brian Ulmer, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau; Anthony Serafini, Office of Engineering and Technology; and Katie King, Wireline Competition Bureau... National Content and Technology Cooperative names Christy Drummond, ex-Windstream, vice president-marketing and communications ... Gary Hanson named chairman, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, succeeding Kristie Fiegen, who remains a commissioner; Chris Nelson elected vice chairman ... Warner Bros. Discovery names to board SoFi Technologies CEO Anthony Noto and IAC CEO Joey Levin ... Communications technology firm BCN promotes Ryan Kelly to chief revenue officer, Jeanne Duca to chief marketing officer ... Trellix expands Kurt Mills' role to senior vice president-global channel chief … HP names Carol Surface, ex-Apple, as chief people officer, succeeding Kristen Ludgate, retired; Surface begins March 24.

CTIA promotes Sarah Leggin to vice president-regulatory affairs, Christiaan Segura to assistant vice president-regulatory affairs, Tina Lisenby to assistant vice president-human resources and operations, Anderson Sullivan to director-industry marketing and communications, DeVaughn Joyner to director-desktop and user support and Rebecca Kalant to senior art director ... ACA elevates Brian Hurley to senior vice president-legal and regulatory affairs ... Telstra International names Sarah Mills, ex-Vodafone UK, as global head-wholesale.

Comtech names Kenneth Traub, ex-Delta Value, as president and CEO ... Telesat promotes Michel Forest to chief technology officer, succeeding David Wendling, and hires Asit Tandon, ex-Rogers Communications, as chief network and information officer ... Salem Media Group appoints Richard von Gnechten, WaterStone, and former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci to its board ... Atkore promotes John Pregenzer to COO, retaining role as president-electrical.

America’s Public Television Stations promotes Jennifer Kieley to vice president-government and public affairs ... Alaska Communications appoints Paul Fenaroli, ex-Examinetics, as president-CEO ... Grain Management, investors for broadband and digital infrastructure, names managing directors Jenny Kashdan and Raghav Nayar as heads-U.S. investment, Ted Manvitz as head-international investment, and Ricardo Rodriguez as head-firm operations and portfolio dynamics; promotes Tanner Goode to principal-investment team, Kathlika Fontes to managing director-capital formation and investor relations, Gerard Ashmore to principal-portfolio dynamics group, and Vanessa Gil to principal-capital formation; promotes Michael Rhine, William Waesche and Kevin Xu to vice presidents; and promotes Charlie Cope, Jan Ebelt, Tyler Lee and Nick Schulkin to senior associates.

Liberty Media promotes Derek Chang to president-CEO, effective Feb. 1, with Liberty Chairman John Malone as interim CEO until then ... Karina Bohorquez leaves Wilkinson Barker to join Bandwidth as regulatory policy counsel ... John Frantz, ex-Verizon, joins DLA Piper as partner in its telecom practice ... Library of American Broadcasting Foundation elects Sam Bush, Saga Communications; Heather Cohen, the Weiss Agency; Mike McVay, McVay Media Consulting; and Ernesto Mourelo, Hearst Television, to board ... Cogeco appoints Caroline Jamet, ex-Radio-Canada, as president-Cogeco Media, effective Feb. 3 ... CoreWeave appoints Sandy Venugopal, ex-SentinelOne, as chief information officer and Peloton's Karen Boone to board.

Former FCC Adviser Evan Swarztrauber launches telecom public affairs firm CorePoint Strategies ... The Nebraska Public Service Commission elects Tim Schram chair and Kevin Stocker vice-chair for 2025 ... Montana Public Service Commission elects Brad Molnar president and Jennifer Fielder vice-president ... E.W. Scripps promotes Lyn Plantinga to senior vice president-local media.