Hudson Institute promotes John Walters to president-CEO, succeeding Kenneth Weinstein, who becomes Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow ... Presidio taps Covetrus' Christine Komola, also ex-Staples, as chief financial officer, succeeding Neil Johnston, departing after transition ... Model N, cloud revenue management solutions provider, hires John Ederer, from K2 Software, as chief financial officer ... OpenText promotes Prentiss Donohue to executive vice president-sales, small- and medium-size business and consumer ... Criteo taps Brendan McCarthy, ex-Nielsen, as chief marketing officer.
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington appoints Jonathan Cannon, from Wireline Bureau, as acting wireline adviser ... SMPTE elects Hans Hoffmann, European Broadcasting Union head-media fundamentals and production, to two-year term as president, beginning Jan. 1 ... The FCC appoints to the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service: Michael Caron, Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority; Karen Charles Peterson, Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable; and Brandon Presley, Mississippi Public Service Commission.
Perkins Coie hires Brendan Sasso, ex-clerk for Judge Richard Andrews of U.S. District Court for Delaware, as associate in the law firm's data security practice ... E.W. Scripps promotes Jason Combs to chief financial officer, effective upon completing takeover of Ion Media; Combs replaces Lisa Knutson, who will lead combined businesses of Ion, Katz networks and Newsy (see this section, Oct. 19) ... Sinclair advances in Broadcast Group: Paul Nesterovsky to senior vice president-tax; Ethan Haire, vice president-associate general counsel; Dan Gallagher, operations controller; Derek Nance, corporate controller; and Mike Reed and Andrew Schnell, assistant vice presidents-corporate development; and in Television Group: Cathy Jamison to senior vice president-marketing; Dan Mellon, senior vice president-sales transformation; Antonia DeFeo, vice president-agency solutions; Jason Smith, vice president-chief of staff; and Skip Flenniken, assistant vice president-business development … WOW names Rose Jerez, ex-Fox, vice president-customer success … Wells Fargo hires Michelle Moore from Boston Consulting Group as digital platform leader.
SpyCloud hires Len Crosson, ex-Coronet, as chief revenue officer ... StradVision, supplier of artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles, hires Toshihiro Sato from Integrated Silicon Solution as head-sales, Japan ... Samsara industrial IoT company adds BlackRock co-founder Susan Wagner and Jonathan Chadwick, ex-VMWare, to the board ... Innovega appoints former AT&T smartphone executive Jeff Bradley to the board.
Texas Public Utility Commissioners vote to promote Thomas Gleeson to executive director, replacing JP Urban, resigned (see this section, Dec. 14); ex-adviser to the executive director Paytyn Woltersdorf joins Chairman DeAnn Walker’s office as adviser, effective Jan. 1 ... Cornell Tech's Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute taps Rit Aggarwala for Urban Tech Hub as senior urban tech fellow, leading new initiative of creating an urban tech agenda for New York City; he was head of urban systems at Sidewalk Labs, where he remains senior adviser ... Lingo completes acquisition of Lingo of Kentucky and Tempo Telecom, naming from those companies Vincent Oddo as president-CEO and Bill Morris for chief financial officer.
Joining Nokia from Veoneer, effective Jan. 18, is Nishant Batra, named chief strategy and technology officer and member, Group Leadership team ... F5 Networks hires Haiyan Song from Splunk as executive vice president-security, effective Jan. 4.
IHeartMedia promotes Jordan Fasbender to executive vice president-general counsel-secretary, succeeding Paul McNicol, who will retire at end of 2021 but stays now as executive vice president, “providing counsel to the company’s senior management and ensuring a seamless transition” … Harris Wiltshire promotes lawyers who do telecom and related work to its partnership: John Grimm, a litigator; Robert Friedman, expert on international trade and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.; and Lauren Snyder, also litigator ... Doctor On Demand hires former Aetna executive Nick Lanzi as chief financial officer ... NS1 application and access networking firm appoints David Coffey, ex-Forcepoint, chief product officer ... At BAI Communications' Transit Wireless, Jyoti Mahurkar-Thombre, ex-Landis+Gyr, joins as chief technology officer.
Grubhub hires Amy Perlik Healy, ex-yellowpages.com, to lead public affairs; Hannah Smith, ex-Bird, to run legislative affairs and industry relations on the West Coast; Brett Swanson, ex-Lime, to oversee coalition and industry support; and Grant Klinzman, ex-Uber, for policy communications ... Cox Enterprises taps Connie Walters from subsidiary Cox Automotive as vice president-employment law.
Communications director for Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Rick VanMeter, leaving that office and the Commerce Committee for the private sector and being succeeded by newly promoted Phillip Waller ... Mintz attorneys promoted to members include Angela Kung, for Technology, Communications & Media, working on spectrum use policies and auction procedures; Marguerite McConihe, Intellectual Property, including technology hardware, software, internet and semiconductors; and Lily Zhang, IP, on areas including artificial intelligence, wireless communication, data storage and management, network hardware and software, cybersecurity and cryptography.
Goodfriend Group hires Earl Ash, ex-aide to Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., as senior director-public policy and government relations, specializing in telecom, technology and media, succeeding Meagan Sunn, named tech, telecom and judiciary counsel at office of Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich. ... Cooley global cyber/data/privacy team adds Tiana Demas from Facebook as partner.