Jessica Greffenius will be FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez's acting legal adviser for wireline and public safety.
FCC staff changes: Wireless Bureau’s Jessica Campbell becomes acting legal adviser-public safety for Commissioner Anna Gomez, stepping in for Hayley Steffen, on maternity leave, and Cierra Nokes, ex-NTT Data, joins Gomez’s office as executive assistant; Howard Parnell retiring as division chief-Web and Print Publishing; Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal becomes special adviser, with Deputy Bureau Chief Peter Hyun becoming acting bureau chief; Office of Economics and Analytics Deputy Bureau Chief Catherine Matraves becoming acting bureau chief with Bureau Chief Giulia McHenry’s departure … Cloud security provider Sysdig appoints William Welch, previously Talkdesk, as CEO.
Latham Watkins promotes Ashley Fry and Alex Grabowski to partner-intellectual property practice, Yi Sun and David Zucker to counsel-intellectual property practice, Bradley Baglien to counsel-connectivity, privacy and information practice, and Stephanie Adams and Caitlin Fitzpatrick to partner-antitrust practice ... Cybersecurity, cloud and IT managed services provider Thrive promotes Kristina O’Connell to chief marketing officer.
Comtech Telecom promotes Daniel Gizinski to president-satellite and space communications segment ... Digital infrastructure investment firm DigitalBridge appoints Yoshiaki Fujimori, ex-Oracle, as senior executive adviser, Japan and Asia-Pacific region ... Fiber provider Light Source Communications hires Joe Patton, ex-Sifi Networks, as chief revenue officer, and Dan Enright, previously GW Communications, as COO ... GeoLinks appoints Kevin Hetrick, ex-Strategic Venue Partners, as CEO ... Kathryn Ford, previously Armstrong Teasdale, joins digital network services provider Congruex as general counsel ... ISP software provider Airties appoints John Lancaster-Lennox, ex-Nokia, as executive vice president-general manager-Asia.
Comtech appoints Michael Hildebrandt, Freshford Capital Management, to board.
Hallmark Media hires Jesse Wallace, ex-Google, as senior vice president-head of distribution ... Cox Media Group promotes Darren Moore to senior vice president-chief sales officer, CMG Television ... Former Vermont Public Utility Commissioner Sarah Hofmann named to state's Community Broadband Board.
TechNet appoints Katie Kelly, ex-Manson Bolves, as executive director-Florida and Southeast ... Nexstar Media appoints Bill Sammon, previously Fox News, as senior vice president-Washington, D.C.-editorial content for The Hill and NewsNation ... Comporium promotes Karl Skroban to vice president-marketing, media services and video strategy ... President Joe Biden to nominate to CPB board Carol Kellerman, ex-president, New York Citizens Budget Commission, and Adam White, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow.
Liberty Media President-CEO Greg Maffei stepping down at year-end with Chairman John Malone becoming interim CEO; Maffei to serve as senior adviser during transition ... Radcom names Benny Eppstein, ex-Amdocs, as CEO, effective Dec. 1 ... The Next Generation 9-1-1 Institute elects to board Todd Piett, Motorola Solutions; Jennifer White, RapidSOS; Manuel Silva, Frontier; Eric Hagerson, T-Mobile; and Mike Tan, AT&T.
Semiconductor provider Spectra7 Microsystems appoints Omar Javaid, ex-Avaya, as CEO ... Scripps promotes Teresa Morgan to vice president-general manager-WFTS-TV Tampa, effective Jan. 1 ... Tegna appoints Dhanusha Sivajee, previously Angi, as chief experience officer ... Archtop Fiber names Keith Taub, ex-Technical Safety Services, as CFO ... Cybersecurity company Menlo Security names Bill Robbins, ex-Sophos, as president.
News Corp CFO Susan Panuccio to step down, effective Jan. 1, to be succeeded by Lavanya Chandrashekar, ex-Diageo; Panuccio to continue in an advisory capacity for six months ... Cybersecurity company Dot Ai appoints Toni Buhrke, ex-Mimecast, as vice president-global sales, engineering, and operations ... Nvidia names Ellen Ochoa, ex-NASA, to board.