President Donald Trump promotes Jason Kearns to chairman, International Trade Commission with term as chief ending June 16, 2022, succeeding David Johanson, whose term as chairman ended Tuesday; Randolph Stayin named vice chairman for similar term; outgoing chair and vice chair remain commissioners ... Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara resign ... MCNC appoints Tracy Doaks, leaving July 31 as North Carolina state chief information officer, president-CEO, effective Aug. 1, replacing Jean Davis, stepping down from this North Carolina Research and Education Network operator to care for her elderly parents.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco departs DOJ, effective July 3 ... Jenner & Block adds communications lawyer Zeb Zankel, ex-Davis Wright, as partner, Communications, Internet and Technology Practice ... Red Hat hires Cheryl Bruner, ex-IBM, as public policy director ... CenturyLink hires Hugo Teufel, ex-Raytheon, as chief privacy officer.
Center for Democracy & Technology Vice President-Strategy and General Counsel Lisa Hayes has left CDT ... University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications hires Angela Bradbery, ex-Public Citizen, as Karel endowed chair in public interest communications and on faculty of public relations department, succeeding Ann Christiano, who was Karel inaugural chair and remains director, Center for Public Interest Communications ... Twitter hires Jim Bakeras deputy general counsel ... Crisis Text Line board fires CEO Nancy Lublin; director Dena Trujillo becomes interim CEO.
TechFreedom taps Asheesh Agarwal, ex-FTC, for deputy general counsel-competition counsel ... Barnes & Thornburg adds John Moye as partner, Litigation Department; his practice includes technology and software litigation and telecom law ... LegalZoom hires from The Honest Co. Nicole Miller as general counsel ... Crossroads Strategies hires ex-Sens. John Breaux, D-La., and Trent Lott, R-Miss., as partners; they worked at Squire Patton on issues including telecom.
Computer & Communications Industry Association hires Arthur Sidney, ex-office of Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., as vice president-public policy, succeeding Matt Schruers, previously promoted to president ... Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hired Sintia Radu, ex-U.S. News & World Report, as communications director ... Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden promotes Joe Cappello to chief human capital officer, from acting ... Subject Matter hires lobbyist Bryce Harlow, ex-CBS, to government relations team, effective July 13.
Internet Accountable Project adds attorney and Human Events Publisher Will Chamberlain as senior counsel; IAP notes the conservative group was started in September by ex-Senate GOP aides Mike Davis and Rachel Bovard "to take on Big Tech from the right"; it's now "expanding its team in the wake of Big Tech’s escalating targeting of conservatives" ... TechNet hires from Univision Communications Keith Fernandez as director-communications ... Barclays taps Georgi Balinov, ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as head-global technology payments banking.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) appoints Jehmal Hudson, ex-Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and National Hydropower Association, to Virginia State Corporation Commission ... Ericsson board promotes Arun Bansal to executive vice president; Bansal remains also senior vice president and head-market area, Europe and Latin America; Executive Vice President-Head, Business Area Networks Fredrik Jejdling remains in position and is first EVP, with Bansal second EVP.
Technology Policy Institute promotes Lindsay Poss to also be director-communications, newly created post; she continues as research analyst ... Squire Patton separates from Trent Lott, ex-Senate Commerce Committee Republican who participated in some telecom issues ... Among summer interns in office of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is Joe Kane, an ex-R Street Institute tech policy fellow on track to graduate from law school in 2022.
Xperi and TiVo completed their "merger of equals" last week, each becoming subsidiaries of the new Xperi Holding, with directors replaced by Jon Kirchner, John Allen and Paul Davis; CEO-President David Shull, Chief Financial Officer-Treasurer Wesley Gutierrez and General Counsel-Secretary Pamela Sergeeff gave TiVo letters of resignation; Kirchner named CEO-president; Robert Andersen executive vice president-CFO; Allen senior vice president-corporate controller; and Davis senior vice president-general counsel-corporate secretary.
ICANN Senior Vice President-Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives and co-deputy to CEO Theresa Swinehart assumes also permanent leadership, Global Domains Division; with Senior Vice President-Chief Operations Officer Susanna Bennett leaving effective July 1, ICANN CEO Goran Marby redistributing operations responsibilities: Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Xavier Calvez assuming leadership of new planning department; Security Operations reporting to Senior Vice President-Global Human Resources Gina Villavicencio; and board operations under General Counsel-Secretary John Jeffrey ... WOW hires John Rego, ex-Telaria, as chief financial officer and Shannon Campain, ex-Fox, as chief commercial officer.