Davis Wright adds Chris Ford, from Ballard Spahr, as partner-financial services and technology ... Brookings Institution promotes Nicol Turner Lee to senior fellow, Center for Technology Innovation (see 2005190029) ... Denise Denson, ex-Viacom, joins Molten as chief operating officer ... Armando Nunez moving to adviser at ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, as Dan Cohen becoming group president ... Open Systems acquires Born in the Cloud, with latter’s founder Paul Keely joining buyer as general manager, Born in the Cloud.
Libra Association appoints Robert Werner, ex-GRH Consulting, general counsel ... NFL moves Jeff Miller to executive vice president-communications, public affairs and policy ... LegalShield hires Arnold Blinn, ex-GoDaddy, as chief architect ... Grain Management names Ricardo Rodriguez, ex-Spirit MTA REIT, principal-investment team and Stephanie Phillipps, ex-Arnold & Porter, as senior adviser on board.
Public Knowledge hires Kathleen Burke, ex-Fayette Alliance, as policy counsel ... Ofcom advances Alison Marsden to director-content standards, licensing and enforcement; she also becomes a member of the content board ... SAIC announces Dee Dee Helfenstein, from Booz Allen, as executive vice president-chief strategic growth officer, new position ... Fusion appoints Brian Crotty, ex-Sungard Availability Services, CEO, succeeding interim CEO Kevin Brand, who remains as president-chief operating officer.
Export-Import Bank appoints David Trulio, detailed from DOD, counselor to the chairman and senior vice president, Program on China and Transformational Exports (see 2005140064) ... Jennifer Brandenburger, ex-Airbnb, rejoining Lyft, named director-public policy for community safety, new position ... Verizon taps James Mitchell, ex-FirstNet, as executive program manager-operations, public sector.
Alliance for Fair Trade with India expands to become Alliance for Trade Enforcement, with Brian Pomper continuing as executive director of new coalition ... HKW names Jeff Bistrong, ex-Harris Williams and with technology transaction expertise, as partner of the private equity firm ... Zoom Telephonics CEO Joe Wytanis steps down, continuing as adviser to board ... Equifax appoints Cecilia Mao, ex-Oracle, chief product officer, new position ... CommScope names Jeff White, from Here Technologies, chief commercial officer.
Ofcom Group Director-Competition and board member Jonathan Oxley stepping down end of June; David Clarkson continuing as acting competition group director ... NetApp appoints Cesar Cernuda, from Microsoft, as president, effective in July ... Mozilla adds Adam Seligman, from Salesforce, as chief operating officer ... AMC Networks names Jon Sichel, ex-Discovery, executive vice president-distribution sales and strategy, and Barbara Kalosieh, ex-GoNoodle, senior vice president-distribution ... Nutanix promotes Christian Alvarez to senior vice president-worldwide channels; he continues to lead channel sales-Americas until a new leader is appointed.
Eve Konstan, ex-WarnerMedia Entertainment, joins Spotify as general counsel ... Facebook hires Alex Burgos, ex-TechNet, as director-policy communications ... Charles River Associates names Justin Lenzo vice president-antitrust and competition economics ... Rachelle Chong resigns from Anterix board; becomes senior adviser.
FCC chairman's Press Secretary Tina Pelkey leaves for Blue Origin, where she's named senior manager-government affairs communication ... Other FCC Office of Media Relations changes: new deputy director-communications is Anne Veigle, from NTIA; Will Wiquist advances to associate director-communications and policy adviser and Katie Gorscak to senior communications adviser.
ViacomCBS hires Martha Heller, from Altice USA, as vice president-government relations and regulatory counsel ... Alliance for Automotive Innovation adds Wade Newton, ex-Auto Innovators, as vice president-communications ... Charles River Associates announces Parker Normann, ex-Edgeworth Economics, as senior consultant-antitrust and competition economics ... DoubleVerify appoints Zachary Hecht, from Tech:NYC, senior policy manager.
NTCA moves up Jill Canfield to general counsel … ICANN appoints Merike Kao, Double Shot Security, to coordinate new DNS Security Facilitation Initiative Technical Study Group … Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund promote LaShawn Warren to executive vice president-government affairs … Cox Media Group says President-CEO Kim Guthrie leaving company; Executive Chairman Steve Pruett becomes interim CEO.