Public Knowledge adds Greg Guice, ex-McGuireWoods, as director-government affairs and promotes Meredith Rose to senior policy counsel ... Wi-Fi Alliance promotes Alex Roytblat to vice president-worldwide regulatory affairs ... Taxpayers Protection Alliance hires Patrick Hedger from Competitive Enterprise Institute as vice president-policy ... White & Case expands Global Intellectual Property Practice, hiring high-tech patent litigation expert Jonathan Lamberson from Fish & Richardson as partner.
OpSec Security names David Haenel, at MarkMonitor until OpSec purchased it in January, group general counsel ... FTI Consulting adds from Citibank Donald Good as managing director, Cybersecurity practice ... Xerox Chief Financial Officer William Osbourn leaving for personal reasons, effective Sept. 30; Xavier Heiss, promoted earlier this year to executive vice president-president, Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, becomes interim CFO ... 8x8 appoints Steve Seger, ex-Tibco Software, chief revenue officer.
Motion Picture Association hires Carla Sanchez Armas, ex-Mexican government official, as managing director-Latin America ... TikTok adds to work on litigation Emily Stubbs from ViacomCBS ... Annie Howell returns to Crown Media, named chief communications officer ... Digital Colony taps Matty Yohannan from Deacon Arch Partners as chief of staff to CEO Marc Ganzi.
Interactive Advertising Bureau advances David Cohen to CEO, succeeding Randall Rothenberg, who remains executive chair through 2022 ... Motion Picture Association taps John Mercurio, ex-Bitfury Group, as senior vice president-corporate communications ... Truthify adds Justin Wisz, co-founder and former CEO of Vestorly, as CEO of the mobile video platform that analyzes emotions.
American Intellectual Property Law Association advances Vincent Garlock to executive director ... Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hires Jackie Beckwith from the American Trucking Associations as manager-government relations ... SAG-AFTRA hires Jonathan Handel as outside special counsel; he leaves The Hollywood Reporter and continues as entertainment and technology lawyer for clients that don't conflict with union's assignments.
Hearst Television advances Alvin Lustgarten to senior vice president-technology and information services ... Teradata promotes Hillary Ashton to chief product officer ... Gannett taps Mayur Gupta, ex-Freshly, for chief marketing and strategy officer; he resigns from Gannett board ... VideoAmp adds from Omnicom Media Jonathan Steuer as executive vice president-TV strategy and currency ... Workforce Logiq hires consultant William Rolack as vice president-diversity and inclusion.
Connected Nation promotes Brent Legg to executive vice president-government affairs ... Steptoe & Johnson hires from Mayer Brown privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Charles-Albert Helleputte as partner in Brussels, along with new associate Diletta De Cicco, who works on same issues; adds in New York from Dechert Michael Weiner as partner, Antitrust and Competition practice, and he has worked on tech and telecom among other issues.
Library of Congress appoints Deborah Thomas to chief, Serial and Government Publications Division, where she was acting head ... Delaware Chief Information Officer James Collins leaves to join Microsoft Consulting as a general manager focused on state and local government and higher education; Department of Technology and Information Chief Operating Officer Jason Clarke named acting CIO.
Cyber/data/privacy lawyer Patrick Van Eecke joins Cooley from DLA Piper, named partner in Brussels office ... State Educational Technology Directors Association moves Christine Fox; who tells us she remains deputy executive director, to also be interim executive director after Candice Dodson died on July 22 (see this section, July 27) ... Changes at Zoom: It hires Jeff True, ex-Palo Alto Networks, as general counsel; Chief Accounting Officer Roy Benhorin decides to resign effective Oct. 16, with board picking Shane Crehan, ex-Eventbrite, for job, effective Sept. 21.
Telecommunications Law Professionals hires Gregg Skall, ex-Womble Bond, as member; he focuses on radio and TV law and works with companies seeking device certification and on other spectrum-technology issues ... Wickr collaboration platform taps from DOD, ex-Chief of Staff to Chief Information Officer Blake Moore as vice president-strategy and operations.